A Sense of Doubt blog post #1502 - New from Holly Herndon and bonus tracks
Of course, I found out about Holly Herndon from Warren Ellis. I find out about a lot of things from Warren Ellis.
Not only did I get introduced to Holly Herndon via Ellis, but I learned of her new video from him as well.
This is another short entry, but maybe it's the new norm. Maybe most if not all of my entries should be short.
So, hey, Holly Herndon has a new video out now, "Eternal," and she has a new album coming out, which I have already pre-ordered.
Who is Holly Herndon and why is she awesome?
Because she is awesome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Herndon
Holly Herndon (born 1980) is an American composer, musician, and sound artist[1] based in San Francisco, California.[2][3] She is currently a doctoral student at Stanford University studying composition.[4] Her music is primarily computer-based and often uses the visual programming language Max/MSP to create custom instruments and vocal processes.[3][5] She has released music on the labels RVNG Intl. and 4AD. Her most recent full-length album Platform was released on May 19, 2015.[6]
Movement (2012)[edit]
While attending Mills she began developing her debut album Movement.[3] Movement was released in November 2012 through RVNG Intl, a record label[2] based in Brooklyn.[9] For the album she used the visual programming language Max/MSP to create custom instruments and vocal processes.[3]
Movement received a score of 8.1 on Pitchfork, who stated that Herndon "uses her crystalline voice as a chief input for her laptop, ultimately arriving at a poignant nexus of electronic accessibility and experimentation that owes as much to her academic forebears as her club contemporaries. It's a record with the rare capacity to turn cynics who might scoff at the idea of laptops-as-intimate-instruments into believers."[10]
In 2012, she released Movement.
According to The Quietus, "Movement's sound certainly has its forebears and contemporaries - it's possible to detect traces of everyone from Coil and Aphex Twin to Ellen Allien and Laurel Halo in the mix - but equally it contains elements, both sonic and thematic, that are quite unlike any other electronic music currently out there."[1]Also, "Herndon's music reflects the ambiguous nature of our interactions with these technologies. It's by turns sensual, blissful and disturbing, and often hints towards all three states at once."[1]
Platform (2015)[edit]
Herndon's second full-length album, Platform, was released on May 19, 2015. The album explores a complicated relationship with technology,[18] and includes a track entitled "Lonely at the Top" that is intended to trigger Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR).[19][20][21][22][23][24]
PROTO (2019)[edit]
Herndon's third full-length album, PROTO, will be released on May 10, 2019.[25]
Website: http://www.hollyherndon.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holly_herndon/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hollyherndon
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hollyherndon
THE NEW VIDEO
Holly Herndon - Eternal https://hollyherndon.ffm.to/proto
SOME OLDER ALSO COOL VIDEOS
Some videos of Holly Herndon talking about what she does.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/eternal/
“Eternal”
There are those existentially troubling moments when your phone can’t recognize your face. Is my software outdated? Have I suddenly become hideous? Is the lighting in this apartment so bad? Never do we consider how the software feels. Holly Herndon’s video for her dizzying new song “Eternal” follows the lonely journey of a machine as it analyzes and connects to a human face. It’s blurry and disorienting: a collage of eyes, ears, and mouths materializing in front of the camera, soundtracked by one of the most direct melodies Herndon has ever composed. Synth-orchestra blasts beam in from Y2K pop radio. A dance rhythm keeps stalling out while it’s buffering. “Right in front of my eyes,” a choir sings, slowly, in unison.
Herndon’s process involves filtering human experiences through a maze of modern technology. For her new music, she developed an A.I. program called “Spawn” through which she feeds samples of her own vocals to retrieve alien renderings of herself. In her previous single, “Godmother,” a collaboration with Jlin, the result was abstract and alien—a spiral of buzzing gnats and gasping breaths that, in the video, culminated in both artists bursting into laughter. In “Eternal,” Herndon is still gazing in awe at an unfamiliar machine, learning its defining characteristics and tracing a pattern. Only now, you can now see her more clearly than ever.
And just because I liked it and want to share it fairly often this video by Kelly Lee Owens. It's interesting contrast between Herndon and Owens. There's similarity in tools and medium, but vast differences in the sound and the intent.https://kellyleeowens.bandcamp.com/
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