How To Destroy Angels

i dunno about this

could be good, could be utter shit. i kinda think collaborations with your significant other are cheesy.

named after a coil release, how original.

OMG , is he gonna do a Yoko ono - John Lennon type of thing?

YES , fucking horrible idea.

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Last year, Nine Inch Nails played their final show as a touring entity, and mastermind Trent Reznor married former West Indian Girl frontwoman Mariqueen Maandig. Now, Reznor and Maandig have formed the group How to Destroy Angels. They'll release a self-titled, six-song EP this summer.

only husband/wife band needed

http://www.myspace.com/findthelonglost

apart from sonic youth, obviously.

Someone more knowing please explain what exactly she's doing in the clip. Pulling on some rubber strand to mangle the sound? What synth is that??

Trent claims that he created some customs synth with Aticus Ross back when they did Year Zero. (I think this claim is bullshit - RDJ like)

it's don't think it's too difficult to build a synth. i build a noise generator from bits from maplin and used it on a few of my recordings.

edit: have to admit, my sister does electronic engineering at uni so she helped me quite a lot.

obviously a synth is more tricky but it's not impossible - i remember reading that the joy division/new order guys built their synths from scratch in the late 70s.

Has great potential to be diabolical. But you never can tell....

  On 4/28/2010 at 5:22 PM, Lube Saibot said:

Someone more knowing please explain what exactly she's doing in the clip. Pulling on some rubber strand to mangle the sound? What synth is that??

it just looks like a ribbon controller to me

I thought the same at first but then i noticed it's elastic and bends along as she pulls her finger down.

Chris Carter from Throbbing Gristle built himself a fuckoff big modular system in the 70s

  On 4/28/2010 at 5:24 PM, Boxing Day said:

Trent claims that he created some customs synth with Aticus Ross back when they did Year Zero. (I think this claim is bullshit - RDJ like)

I'm saying this because the synths in Ghosts and The Slip were "ordinary-sounding" + they didn't use any of these "custom synths" on the live tour.

But what the hell do i know , I'm not a MM

  On 4/28/2010 at 5:22 PM, Lube Saibot said:

Someone more knowing please explain what exactly she's doing in the clip. Pulling on some rubber strand to mangle the sound? What synth is that??

Same synth he used on Sunspots for that bendy guitar-like lead synth. Used it on a few other NINs also, can't remember the name of the synth right now but he was raving about it in interviews at the time

OR...

It's just a loose bit of moulding on the case and she's pretending it affects the music in order to generate interest/debate

No.

Trent Reznor should watch Dogma.

  On 4/28/2010 at 6:48 PM, Joyrex said:

OR...

 

It's just a loose bit of moulding on the case and she's pretending it affects the music in order to generate interest/debate

yeah...ribbon controllers, as far as i know, are usually used as an alternative to a mod wheel. i've never used one though, so it could be entirely plausible that you could assign it to control the pitch...but i think it'd be silly to do that as you wouldn't have accuracy with hitting the right notes.

then again, how accurate is a theramin?

answer: very accurate if you know how to use one properly, of course.

  On 4/28/2010 at 6:27 PM, Greg Reason said:

  On 4/28/2010 at 5:22 PM, Lube Saibot said:

Someone more knowing please explain what exactly she's doing in the clip. Pulling on some rubber strand to mangle the sound? What synth is that??

 

Same synth he used on Sunspots for that bendy guitar-like lead synth. Used it on a few other NINs also, can't remember the name of the synth right now but he was raving about it in interviews at the time

Do try.

hopefully wifey was able to wrangle the lyric writing pen away from old roid-rage.

  On 4/28/2010 at 7:12 PM, thepilot said:

hopefully wifey was able to wrangle the lyric writing pen away from old roid-rage.

IRL LOOOL

  On 4/28/2010 at 7:14 PM, Lube Saibot said:

  On 4/28/2010 at 7:12 PM, thepilot said:

hopefully wifey was able to wrangle the lyric writing pen away from old roid-rage.

 

IRL LOOOL

i nearly spewed my Muller Crunch Corner all over the keyboard

  On 4/28/2010 at 6:48 PM, Joyrex said:

OR...

 

It's just a loose bit of moulding on the case and she's pretending it affects the music in order to generate interest/debate

you can see markings above the band thingie where the finger is supposed to go.

if i knew how to make that vid into an animated .gif, i could 'shop many a thing

  On 4/28/2010 at 7:04 PM, oscillik said:

then again, how accurate is a theramin?

answer: very accurate if you know how to use one properly, of course.

i saw the juan maclean live, they used a theremin through an autotune. easily the coolest thing you can do with autotune.