Here's a sort of seven-track mixtape of the most alien noises I was able to find. Featured: Feedback, Supercollider, Software Defined Radio, the Bastl Kastle, the Wing Pinger, Björk.
- "Triple Kastle", alloutofsync
The Bastl Kastle is a lovely toy-like palmtop instrument that mocks the entire expensive idiom of modular synths by costing like $60, running off 3 AA batteries and yet sounding like it contains an entire universe of glitchy noise.
This piece combines three Kastles crosswired to make otherworldly noises unlike anything you've ever heard, although oddly it does remind me a bit of the Earthbound cave music.
Play two songs at once, and you find interesting convergences as the rhythms go in and out of sync. Play twelve songs at once, and you get… well nothing really, mostly you just learn 606 drums and the harpsicord sound from "Pagan Poetry" stand out well amidst noise.
This experiment starts off feeling kind of pointless, but then there's a shift, like the floor dropping out under you. Once the song intros are past everything blends, and coalesces into a slowly-mutating, gloriously creepy, shockingly emotional uniform howl.
- "Saigon Window", Dexba
A flowing 20-minute live set featuring a slightly unusual setup (including multiple of the idiosyncratic, opinionated synths designed by Meng Qi) and, as advertised, a window on a Vietnamese street. Starts with some basically okay distorted chimes and echoing howls but around the seven to ten minute mark it finds an atmospheric groove and from there to the end is a transcendent cosmic journey.
- "#Noisevember 12", Daniel M. Karlsson
Daniel M. Karlssonis a experimental electronic composer I've been following for years, with a prolific output mostly based on algorithmic generation and an open-source extension to Supercollider he developed. (My favorite was the Bandcamp album with over a thousand tracks added one by one over a period of years).
This was Karlsson's Nov 12 entry for the "#Noisevember" event on Mastodon (he's now moved on to Dronecember). In the Mastodon post he explains this track is based on a string physical model; the model seems to be pushed to (past?) its limit, producing frequencies no string instrument could produce and unearthly, sorrowful noise.
The Bandcamp image for this track is, in fact, its source code.
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