more hh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybzSWlpgJOA
― we reward the hake (NickB), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:51 (nine years ago) link
new album on 4AD in may:http://4ad.com/news/10/3/2015/hollyherndontoreleaseplatforminmayinterferencevideopremieres
― we reward the hake (NickB), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:52 (nine years ago) link
on the cover of the latest issue of the wire.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
saw her live show + live interview last year, she is cool
― mh, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
http://4ad.com/news/10/3/2015/hollyherndontoreleaseplatforminmayinterferencevideopremieres
I want a thread for 4AD URLs.
― Position Position, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link
this shit bangs
― nose, Thursday, 12 March 2015 22:40 (nine years ago) link
lmao at how "Lonely At The Top" is straight-up ASMR
― misterjoshua, Monday, 20 April 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
First listen through and I dig this a whole lot more than Movement. The previously released tracks are all highlights but Morning Sun and especially An Exit (w/ Amnesia Scanner!!) are excellent too.
― misterjoshua, Monday, 20 April 2015 21:35 (nine years ago) link
wow I just discovered "Chorus" and I am really loving this a lot
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 12:15 (nine years ago) link
the record "Platform" leaked
there is a track on it that is literally ASMR
― j. winters (josh), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 07:41 (nine years ago) link
oh wait someone else noted that before i did lmao
and it's totally unlistenable!
― Number None, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 10:24 (nine years ago) link
unless you have ASMR I guess
what is amr? i found the whole album an uncompelling drag tbh
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 10:31 (nine years ago) link
*asmr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response
― emil.y, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 11:21 (nine years ago) link
has a dedicated ilx thread - ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=40&threadid=96481
― ogmor, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 12:31 (nine years ago) link
i kinda love the holly herndon ASMR track??
― j. winters (josh), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
there are a few great moments on the rest of the album but overall idk
― j. winters (josh), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
The heck is this ASMR track? Makes me feel irrationally embarrassed.
― p:s nerds know (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 07:17 (nine years ago) link
Which one is the ASMR track? I listened to about 2/3 of Platform on Spotify yesterday and just got a major nostalgia buzz. 2002 laptop music redux. It was pretty though. Will probably end up buying.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
this is obviously doing well because they just sent out a warning to people who pre-ordered that shipping might take a while.
― skip, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
Worked at the shop on Saturday and listened to this 3 times. Sounds really good on a nice system -- this is probably my favorite record of the year so far. I didn't get any ASMR reactions from it, but our speakers are in the back of the store.
― dronestreet, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 02:22 (nine years ago) link
This album is BANANAS.
― ledge, Friday, 22 May 2015 11:00 (nine years ago) link
I think I might get ASMR reactions! "Lonely at the Top" made me feel... off
― ultimate american sock (mh), Friday, 22 May 2015 13:36 (nine years ago) link
it's kinda terrible imo, the only track i skip on the record.
Morning Sun is so gorgeous, and achieves a weird trick of sounding both claustrophobic and cavernous at the same time. Her sound design is amazing.
― Roz, Friday, 22 May 2015 14:50 (nine years ago) link
Yep, but crucially it's in the service of some great tunes - I wouldn't be interested it if it was just a dry exercise in sound art. ASMR track is kinda lol mostly o_O, it was amusing for a while but I've started skipping it now.
― ledge, Saturday, 23 May 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link
Intro to the last track is... destabilising. Prob not a good idea to try to fall asleep to this album.
― ledge, Saturday, 23 May 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link
I have no idea if it's technically AMSR, but some music (especially pure vocal harmony music, with lots of reverb, certain speeds of very choppy tremolo) does regularly provoke physical sensations - kind of shivery fingers running down my shoulders/back, but not in an unpleasant way at all.
The thing is, the supposed AMSR track on this album provokes absolutely no reaction in me at all. (I, too, have started skipping it.) Morning Sun, however, has those qualities so exactly that it's actually quite distracting to listen to it on headphones at work.
This album is absolutely phenomenal. As Roz says, the sound design is astonishing, on top of it being really intriguing and compelling music.
― The Hauntology of Celebrity (Branwell with an N), Saturday, 23 May 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
the words on that "lonely at the top" one, with their unreserved praise, also provoke a reaction of weird, pleasurable discomfort
― ultimate american sock (mh), Saturday, 23 May 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
really digging 'morning sun' + 'locker leak' off thisobvs 'chorus' is still classic
― nxd, Friday, 29 May 2015 10:52 (nine years ago) link
liking this one much more than "movement" so far
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 30 May 2015 01:12 (nine years ago) link
I'm late to the party but this is great!
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
the sound palette seems pretty limited.. How many times can you use the 'atonal percussion rustle/avalanche' sample before it gets old? the quality of the percussion is nice, but the overload of pitched vocal samples gives it a disposable, later OPN-like quality. feels very 'of the late 2000s'. vocal clutter is way over the top. i could listen to quarantine by laurel halo all day, but the use of vocals on this is grating as shit. i miss chicks on speed produced by the mego guys.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link
"disposable" is just fine by me; i'm associating this with vaporwave
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
I'm hearing early '80s Laurie Anderson in her Herndon's sound
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 June 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link
i really like the spoken track - i find it funny and kind of theatrical at the same time. it reminds me a bit of some interactive theatre things i've seen.
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Thursday, 4 June 2015 15:10 (nine years ago) link
Any London ilxors going to the show?
― emil.y, Sunday, 7 June 2015 13:06 (nine years ago) link
how did this leave me cold at first? it suddenly CLICKED a few weeks ago and i haven't been able to stop listening
some of the gorgeous textures remind me of orchestra of bubbles!
― lex pretend, Friday, 9 October 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
It actually reminds me a bit of of the gentler bits of Confield, just the textural crunch of all those granular bits of micro-sound, but with heaps of sugar throughout.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 October 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
confield flakes
― Rainham area Rilke (nakhchivan), Friday, 9 October 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzP9IwznNuQ
― Rainham area Rilke (nakhchivan), Friday, 9 October 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 19:17 (4 months ago)
the clarity of the soundfield on this is so different to anything from that period, even the very best and best engineered of it like autechre
― Rainham area Rilke (nakhchivan), Friday, 9 October 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
Some of her stuff reminds me of some Tortoise -- which, coincidentally, also has a member named Herndon.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 9 October 2015 19:51 (eight years ago) link
Astonishing gig last night in London - she had a couple of other people onstage with her, a vocalist/dancer whose vocals were being chopped up into a million pieces in real time. Also a dude behind a laptop whose sole job appeared to be to type messages at the audience (best one = "FUCK THERESA MAY"). It was all clearly live (and texturally quite different from the album) but I had no idea how most of it was being done.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 5 November 2015 10:16 (eight years ago) link
+1324232234545345 to any notion of seeing her live; IMO she wiped the floor with everyone else who played Big Ears last year, and the live-data-manipulation stuff was a major part of that
― grinding like a jolly elf (jamescobo), Thursday, 5 November 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
yeah that was an excellent gig (and jam city supporting was brilliant too, and again v different to the record)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
cool talk w/DJ Rupture: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21582-lullabies-for-the-broken-brain/
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link
did you mean to link this? https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-holly-herndon-and-jace-clayton/
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
ha yes, wrong tab. ty.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link
Nice Tape Op interview: https://tapeop.com/interviews/132/holly-herndon/
― Brad C., Sunday, 28 July 2019 00:23 (four years ago) link
I wonder if Spawn could be realtime if she had, like, a rack of Mac Pros to throw at the problem. If so ... c'mon Holly, just head to Kickstarter! We got you!
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Sunday, 28 July 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
Can we talk about how insanely awesome the Barbican show was? Full choir onstage dancing around in a creepy Midsommar fashion, apoclayptic/utopian projections onscreen, Holly dancing around and singing with the choir, vocals being manipulated in real time (which was amazing when she was singing solo). Also during Frontier there were singers located throughout the audience, suddenly getting up with spotlights on them to join in.
Plus, we all got to sing back to Holly as part of training her AI.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 October 2019 11:17 (four years ago) link
was also there. fckn incredible show, thought aya was really great as well.
pal i was with (who maybe lurks here, hi!) goes to london sacred harp occasionally but hadn't been in a couple of months so missed out on being one of those audience singers
― devvvine, Thursday, 17 October 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link
really loved how much all the choral singers were just cutting lose
― devvvine, Thursday, 17 October 2019 11:22 (four years ago) link
loose*
because i am so woke i was worried their peasant/traditional headscarves & other gear might be appropriation, lol. but yep, amazing. first song was *massive*, is it on the album (which i haven't listened to enough and can't listen to right now)?
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 17 October 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
nice, wish I could have seen this!
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
Saw the projections adapted to the Hexadome when it was presented as part of the Gray Area festival a couple months ago. It was fucking riveting and one of my favorite things shown.
This was one of the shows I most regretted missing out on while I was out of town in May. Very jealous of all of you.
― octobeard, Saturday, 19 October 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
the projections were kind of washed out by stage lighting, but I saw this show at unsound festival last week and it was great
I've seen Herndon before live and something left me a little cold, but I was in the balcony and viewing this one as a complete stage production really made it click.
― mh, Monday, 21 October 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
New tune
pic.twitter.com/BWOh4TMwsP— Holly Herndon (@hollyherndon) November 4, 2020
― groovypanda, Thursday, 5 November 2020 12:53 (three years ago) link
excellent
― nxd, Friday, 6 November 2020 10:22 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/KYvQl9TiYH— Holly Herndon (@hollyherndon) February 13, 2021
― nxd, Saturday, 13 February 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
i have no idea what any of this shit is
https://xlr8r.com/news/web3-weekly-wrap-holly-herndons-holly-fwb-gatekeeper-nft-takeover-of-times-square-and-more/
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
lol i knew when i clicked on this that she and her cornball charlatan partner would be on some nft shit
― adam, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
I've been pretty disappointed with her embracing of NFTs - in general I've always liked her takes on futurism and the potential of AI etc but the NFT thing is slowly eroding my respect.
her cornball charlatan partner
??
― emil.y, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
Mat Dryhurst. He's def a tech nerd who has been heavily involved in that side of her music. They do a podcast together (https://interdependence.fm/) that I enjoyed early on, but he's gone all in on web3/NFT stuff, I had to bail.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
I still don't have an opinion about NFTs because the whole thing confuses me. So does crypto.
― Evan, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
i assure you its bad
― adam, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
I always hear that thing about all the energy that's used to store NFTs and I shut down fully at that point.
― Evan, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link
Mat Dryhurst. He's def a tech nerd who has been heavily involved in that side of her music. They do a podcast together (https://interdependence.fm/) that I enjoyed early on, but he's gone all in on web3/NFT stuff, I had to bail.― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 November 2021
Inevitable. he went on a huge diatribe the other year about piracy, and when someone pulled him up, he was like I grew up in the middle east, I was pirating video games long before they were available to the Western public - hmmm what was someone named Dryhurst('s) family doing in the middle east in the 80s-90s?
― toxic psycho "gifted child" asshole (RobbiePires), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
gave a lecture at Strelka - for what it's worth. Some kind of philosopher not being able to google their relationship to the russian govt...
― toxic psycho "gifted child" asshole (RobbiePires), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
This is very good: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-holly-herndon.html
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 27 May 2024 09:39 (one week ago) link
i appreciate that she seems to have one of the most sensible perspectives on how to approach ml stuff as an artist (despite all her other nonsense which thankfully doesn't come through in that interview) but i'm curious if she's actually going to produce any worthwhile art with it - the stuff with the ai model on the last album just wasn't very compelling
― ufo, Monday, 27 May 2024 12:20 (one week ago) link
All her other nonsense?
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 27 May 2024 13:44 (one week ago) link