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SleepResearch Facility
SleepResearch_Facility (sometimes abbreviated to SR_F or SRF) is a dark ambient artist from Glasgow, Scotland, specializing in sleep-conducive beatless ambient music which is both artistic as well as functional. Overview SleepResearch_Facility consists of the single band member Kevin Doherty. His music usually contains no rhythmic elements (one exception is "2.5" on ''Dead Weather Machine''), but instead relies on spacious, extended, richly-textured sounds. Occasionally, true 'musical' elements appear in his work, such as sustained chords (in "c-deck" on ''Nostromo'' for example), but the majority of his compositions consist of evolving layers of manipulated noise and mechanical drones. He deliberately attempts to avoid any sonic elements which would be likely to disturb a sleepy or sleeping listener, such as sudden loud noises.Foreshadow Magazine interview The music of SR_F is also intended to create an aural environment which allows listeners to let their thoughts drift, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Weather Machine
''Dead Weather Machine'' (sometimes abbreviated to ''DWM'') is the second album by dark ambient artist SleepResearch Facility, and is the first of a two-part set, the second part being '' Dead Weather Machine Re:Heat'' (also known as ''DWM Re:Heat''). Overview The album is summarised by the text on its cover: :As an exercise in sample manipulation, DWM draws exclusively from source audio generated by swinging a cheap microphone in front of a misfiring heating unit, itself congested with the fibrous dust of advanced decrepitude and exhuming a near death-rattle from its fractured internal respiritory systems. SleepResearch_Facility made a three-minute recording of the Tango2 heater (manufactured by Dimplex Heating Ltd), and created ''DWM'' and ''DWM Re:Heat'' from it, "using only about three or four very powerful pieces of software to mutate and mix/layer the sound".Foreshadow Magazine interview The manipulation is so thorough and extensive that it's impossible to guess the orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Dark Ambient Artists
The following is a list of notable artists who compose, or have composed, dark ambient music at some point in their careers. #, A * 0010x0010 * 1476 * 156 * Θ (Theta) *Abruptum *Abu Lahab *Adonxs * AeTopus *Agalloch * Ajattara *Alio Die * All Hail the Transcending Ghost *Altar of Plagues *Ambeon *Amber Asylum * Peter Andersson '':Rezension:''. Retrieved 21 October 2022. *Antimatter *Aphex Twin * Apollon * Arcana *Arditi *Ascension of the Watchers * Asriel *Ataraxia * aTelecine *Atrax Morgue *Atrium Carceri ''AllMusic''. Retrieved 24 October 2022 *Attrition *Aube * Austere *Autopsia * Autumn Tears *The Axis of Perdition B * Christoph de Babalon *Bad Sector * Kelly Bailey *Aidan Baker *Blixa Bargeld *Bark Psychosis *William Basinski *Bass Communion *Beatsystem *Beherit *Belong *Billain *Biosphere *Birchville Cat Motel *Richie Birkenhead *Raoul Björkenheim *Black Dice *Blackhouse * Black Rain *Black Tape for a Blue Girl *Blam Honey *Blood Axis *Blood Incantation *Blut Aus N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Frieze
''Deep_Frieze'' is the fourth album by dark ambient artist SleepResearch Facility. Overview The album is described as "Ultra deep, glacial Dark Ambient, based around Antarctic co-ordinates" on the website of the record label, Cold Spring. Each of the five tracks is associated with a particular location in Antarctica. The album's tagline is printed inside the CD booklet: The album cover shown on this page is an early draft. On the finished cover, the artist's name is printed as ''SleepResearchFacility'' instead of ''sleep research facility'', the album name is printed as ''Deep_Frieze'' instead of ''DEEP FRIEZE'', and the text follows the curved lines on the map. History The concept of the album was first mentioned in the interview with Ortus Obscurum, sometime between 2001 and 2003: In June 2003, early mixes of three of the album tracks were made available as MP3s on the Audio Project Archive page of the official website. The album was mentioned again in the For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nostromo (album)
''Nostromo'' is the debut album by dark ambient artist SleepResearch Facility. The original release in 2001 was a limited edition (only 1000 copies were manufactured), and has now sold out. However, a re-issue was released on 5 December 2007, which includes a new bonus track called "Narcissus". Overview and inspiration ''Nostromo'' is mainly inspired by the fictional spaceship of the same name in the 1979 science fiction/horror film '' Alien''. Kevin Doherty, the single member of SleepResearch Facility, has described this film as "a masterpiece of dark atmospheres and brooding suspense", adding that it is "my all time favorite film". At the beginning of the film, the ship is travelling through deep space, and its seven-human crew members are unconscious in hypersleep. The ship is dark and quiet, but not silent – all manner of mechanical and electronic systems are slowly ticking over, producing a ceaseless flow of low background noise. The album ''Nostromo'' explores this s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold Spring (label)
Cold Spring is an independent record label based in Northamptonshire, England, specialising in "all forms of extreme media, but particularly: dark ambient, neo-classical/neo-folk, orchestral, power electronics/noise, Japanese noise, minimal, death industrial, dark soundtracks, experimental, obscure electronics from Russia, China, Japan, Poland and others." History Beginnings The label is owned, and run, by Justin Mitchell who had been working for Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, a radical occult group from the 1980s. Mitchell had started out listening to early electronic music around the late 1970s, early 1980s."An Interview with Justin" ''Last Sigh'', accessed 27 September 2009 This included bands like |
Drake Hotel (Toronto)
The Drake Hotel is a hospitality venue on Queen Street West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, near Parkdale. In addition to a nineteen-room boutique hotel, there is a restaurant lounge, corner café with street-level patio, Sky Yard roof top patio, and the Drake Underground basement nightclub and live performance venue. The Drake Underground primarily features indie acts, though past noted performers include M.I.A., Billie Eilish and Beck. History The venue was opened in 1890 as ''Small's Hotel''. At the time, the area was a major Canadian Pacific Railway hub near what was then one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in the city. In 1949, the hotel was acquired by new owners who expanded the building and renamed it ''the Drake''. The hotel eventually fell into decline. James Earl Ray described visiting a bar around the corner—likely the Drake—while living as a fugitive on nearby Ossington Avenue in 1968. In the 1970s, it fell into use as a flophouse like many hotels in No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teratoma
A teratoma is a tumor made up of several different types of tissue, such as hair, muscle, teeth, or bone. Teratomata typically form in the ovary, testicle, or coccyx. Symptoms Symptoms may be minimal if the tumor is small. A testicular teratoma may present as a painless lump. Complications may include ovarian torsion, testicular torsion, or hydrops fetalis. They are a type of germ cell tumor (a tumor that begins in the cells that give rise to sperm or eggs). They are divided into two types: mature and immature. Mature teratomas include dermoid cysts and are generally benign. Immature teratomas may be cancerous. Most ovarian teratomas are mature. In adults, testicular teratomas are generally cancerous. Definitive diagnosis is based on a tissue biopsy. Treatment of coccyx, testicular, and ovarian teratomas is generally by surgery. Testicular and immature ovarian teratomas are also frequently treated with chemotherapy. Teratomas occur in the coccyx in about one in 30,000 n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Music Gallery
The Music Gallery is an independent performance venue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is known as a space for musical and interdisciplinary projects in experimental genres. The Music Gallery is publicly funded through arts grants from the city, province, and country, and through membership and ticket sales. History The Music Gallery was founded in 1976, by members of the improvisational experimental group CCMC. The musicians ran the space and performed there regularly until 2000. CCMC artists also established the ''Music Gallery Editions'' record label and ''Musicworks''. The Music Gallery's motto is "Toronto's Centre for Creative Music." John Oswald, in an editorial describing the founding of ''Musicworks'', described it as "an experimental music performance facility." Others have called it "one of the city's most magical, best-kept secrets," "a vital venue," "seedbed for cultural multiplicity and emerging hybridity," and "one of Toronto's cultural gems." Locations From its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrorizer (magazine)
''Terrorizer'' was an extreme music magazine published by Dark Arts Ltd. in the United Kingdom. It was released every four weeks with thirteen issues a year and featured a "Fear Candy" covermount CD, a twice yearly "Fear Candy Unsigned" CD, and a double-sided poster. History 1993 ''Terrorizer'' published its first issue in October 1993 with Sepultura on the cover and a price of £1.95. "Sure, the layout was a bit ropey, with several 'cut out'-style pictures in the live section and some horribly lo-fi video stills in the Pestilence feature, but what a line-up of bands! Sepultura, Morgoth, Entombed, Morbid Angel, At the Gates, Coroner, Dismember, Sinister, Death...it was a veritable smorgasbord of brutality.""The Age of Extremity", ''Terrorizer #100''. The magazine's name derives from seminal grindcore band Terrorizer (which got the name from the death metal band Master's first demo in 1985) and as such the magazine was an early champion of the emerging death metal scene, a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing. The origins of the Internet date back to the development of packet switching and research commissioned by the United States Department of Defense in the 1960s to enable time-sharing of computers. The primary precursor network, the ARPANET, initially served as a backbone for interconnection of regional academic and military networks in the 1970s to enable resource shari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating a free and open Internet. , the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 8.5 million movies, videos and TV shows, 894 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4.4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 241 thousand concerts, and over 734 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archiving, web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
