XOR Gate (a.k.a. Gerald Donald) - Conic Sections

Due March 9th, on Tresor.

No snippets yet, as far as I can tell, but according to residentadvisor.net and thevinylfactory.com it's going to be 8 distinctive "themes" of "beatless synthscapes" (similar to last year's Cellular Automata) mixed into one single 30-minute track.

perfect

ok

Themes? Synthless beatscapes? You know, Speedy J once said it was more difficult to make a good techno track than to do an ambient/idm track.

Gerald used to kick electro ass. I miss the ol' Ger. :(

  On 2/10/2018 at 9:28 AM, goDel said:

Themes? Synthless beatscapes? You know, Speedy J once said it was more difficult to make a good techno track than to do an ambient/idm track.

 

Gerald used to kick electro ass. I miss the ol' Ger. :(

me too, I don't like changes 

Hopefully it’s more interesting than that cover

it'll sound like this http://www.artcentersf.org/fall2016/animage/#public-programs

"Music

Heinrich Mueller-Dataphysix Renormalon
Conic Sections, 2016
Soundtrack
TRT 30:30 minutes
Commissioned by ArtCenter/South Florida for AN IMAGE"

yeah come on ger bear bring back them beats please

Has it been delayed ?

https://clone.nl/item49715.html

Ellipse <3

Definitely!

Aahh, the title and track list are making me have flashbacks from the analytic geometry classes. Jesus.

some XOR Gate tracks here: 

man, Ellipse is just perfect

full stream ahead

https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/preview-xor-gate-s-new-lp-in-full

great ambiance

is this stuff literally based on XOR gates? And the Cellular Automata one is based on that? My own music script uses clusterfucks of XOR operations for one thing

it’s just metaphors / vague concepts imo

1 sec into it and loving it
btw
Donald composed four themes inspired by the geometric study of cone and plane intersections.
The music has expanded to include eight different themes all woven into one long track.
 

The closer, "Minor Axis", is the other stand-out here.

Like "Exponential Decay" on "Cellular Automata".

does the vinyl come with a DL card ?

Nothing particularly surprising here if youre familiar with Donalds more recent work as Dopplereffekt and Der Zyklus. But he's slightly dialled down the fog and crackles this time and focused more on those kind of pristine retro-futurist arpeggios that dominate the later half of Linear Accelerator.

It feels somewhat of a lesser work due to its short running time, and its origins as an installation piece but there are lots of gems here particularly if youre a fan of his prettier ambient stuff. Kinda annoying that its just one long track on Spotify, there are sections in it there really bear repeating.

and yes DL card with the LP. 

  On 4/16/2018 at 8:48 AM, phling said:

it’s just metaphors / vague concepts imo

I'm guilty of it too, I read about something and think it's ok to name a song after a concept without pertaining to the actual song. But I'm always disappointed when the IDM type stuff doesn't actually reflect/involve a concept in its composition. Admits double standard about this, but yeah some of my tracks actually DO involve the concept. "Modular Sedenion Tracks whatever-whatever"