Tribute to Wearing Headphones without Listening to Anything

The winner of the MOST IDM tournament is "Wearing headphones without listening to anything"

As are our customs, we should make a tribute album.

Deadline: Feb 10th 17th!

Rules/guidelines:

1. Submit tracks to cytoplantastic [at] gmail [dot] com. This is easier for me than private message.
2. In the email, please include your artist name and track name, and specify which is which (it's honestly hard to tell sometimes).
3. Tracks can be any style/any length. In theory, if you submit something over 15 minutes it might be hard to fit into a compilation album, but never say never. A lot of my favourite tracks from past comps are over 10 minutes, so go wild :)
4. Please don't master your tracks. We'll master them all together so they flow... If you're using compression as an effect, that's obviously OK... just leave a bit of headroom.
5. Please send tracks in undegraded audio format. WAVs, AIFs and FLACs please. No MP3s.
6. All tracks must be previously unreleased. The album must be fresh.

I'll have the tracks judged anonymously by a panel of some watmmers, and some non-watmmers. The judging will be on the basis of how much they like the tracks, and how much the tracks relate to the theme.

The album art is already taken care of this year, and it's quite good :)

Can we all agree on "no John Cage"-tracks ;)

;p

i totally expected one of the first submissions to be a john cage "remix" or something

Artwork! Let's see artwork!

i must get involved in this one this time

so wait, are you supposed to do this completely without listening to the track or what? maybe guessing by the waveforms

This is the first tribute year that I've drawn an absolute blank...I think this year's winner might have killed the series

i have no idea! 4.33 cover or nothing. also, i'm not interested in remixing it...

d-_-b

Binaural recording of your track with headphones covering the mics? Oh snap!

come on, think radically. how about a musique-concrete style track made from muffled sounds you would hear around you if you were wearing headphones without listening to anything?

I'm in.  This theme speaks to me...  but I pretend not to hear even though there's nothing playing through my headphones.

Step 1: put headphones on mic

Step 2: record daily events

Step 3: process samples in real eventide hardware

Step 4: spend weeks meticulously arranging samples

Step 5: give up on that shit and drop some amen overtop of some reverbed waveforms

Step 6: ... put a donk on it?

  On 12/8/2016 at 7:07 PM, Joyrex said:

Artwork! Let's see artwork!

The artwork is sick. I'm reluctant to post is this early because of the aforementioned freshness issue :)

  On 12/9/2016 at 1:54 AM, Root5 said:

Step 1: put headphones on mic

Step 2: record daily events

Step 3: process samples in real eventide hardware

Step 4: spend weeks meticulously arranging samples

Step 5: give up on that shit and drop some amen overtop of some reverbed waveforms

Step 6: ... put a donk on it?

lol

  On 12/9/2016 at 3:08 AM, GetSquirrely said:

 

  On 12/9/2016 at 1:54 AM, Root5 said:

Step 1: put headphones on mic

Step 2: record daily events

Step 3: process samples in real eventide hardware

Step 4: spend weeks meticulously arranging samples

Step 5: give up on that shit and drop some amen overtop of some reverbed waveforms

Step 6: ... put a donk on it?

lol

 

If you want to frost your tips somewhere in there, that's up to you

ok did something

You ever wear headphones but accidentally they were plugged into your mic port, and you were also somehow accidentally recording?  Then you listen back to the recording, and you got this binaural 3-d warm crunchy cracking sound, and you're like, "What the fuck is that?!"  And then you stick Q-tips in your ears and you tear through nests of termites that are burrowing into your ear canals, then you're like, "LOL", and then you start ramming your fist into your own asshole by accident.

I sincerely don't know whether this album will turn out to be brilliant or utter shit lol

It'd be really IDM if you tried to make the nextest next level track possible without headphones/monitors even plugged in and only listening to it after submitting it

here is my submission

*cuts everything above 1kHz for four minutes*

Very much looking forward to the Peace 7 submission as he was the most passionate campaigner for the theme! As for me, yeah this is a tough one... Gonna have to live in this concept for a while (wear headphones everywhere) and draw some sort of inspiration.

Method IDM