Ultrastructure by byte.observer
Ultrastructure is the result of over three years of experimentation with ultra-tiny sound-generating programs written in x86 assembly language. Through its ultra-complex song structure, bass-heavy arrhythmic beats, glitchy drones, and unfathomable atonal melodies, the album offers a glimpse into the weird and wonderful nightmares of algorithmic complexity theory. Although it often sounds unpredictable, it is completely deterministic: each track can be reproduced byte-for-byte by running ~128 bytes of code (less than the length of this sentence!).
The audio was only lightly edited for the release by resampling to 44100 Hz, adjusting gain and panning, fading in/out, and applying notch filters to remove annoying 16384 Hz drones.
Listening with wide stereo separation (e.g., on headphones) is recommended. Some parts of the album may become inaudible when mixed down to mono.
Tracklist
| 1. | inflection | 1:03 |
| 2. | ultrastructure | 2:59 |
| 3. | lodsb rcl stosd | 2:14 |
| 4. | dredge bit | 4:20 |
| 5. | gazillion gear | 7:36 |
| 6. | orbiter | 3:27 |
| 7. | max out | 2:34 |
| 8. | spring | 3:21 |
| 9. | questions | 0:54 |
| 10. | 16 | 7:09 |
| 11. | squeaks on | 1:28 |
| 12. | hoppers | 4:00 |
| 13. | a blur | 2:46 |
| 14. | defekt | 3:05 |
| 15. | alarmcore | 1:13 |
| 16. | boletus | 2:13 |
| 17. | kolmogorov's nightmare | 3:21 |
| 18. | splicee | 1:06 |
| 19. | the unraveling | 1:08 |
Credits
Sounds by Noah Weninger.
Album art by Robert Voyvodic.
