noiselake by JP Meldrum

noise 'music'. i had a brief friendship with someone who was deep into noise and hated when people catch-all called it noise music; myself included. i don't know about what's a category error and what's trivial hairsplitting. I do know that there is some music here, and there's some noise - feel free to academically parse it out, or feel free to not worry about it too much; this is sheer experimentation and not an ontological debate about sound and culture. my work has always been somewhere in the noise realm, but never outright noise. this is about as close as it gets to outright noise. i'm not too worried about it.

after i wrote this little paragraph above, this was rejected by distrokid for being 'sound effects', and 'not music'. moving over to CD Baby now.

inspired by alva noto, ryoji ikeda, void puppet, nondi_ and monolake. dedicated to max msp users, circuit benders, and gearheads.

Tracklist

1.	first accident	1:28

2.	noiselake 1	1:34

3.	noiselake 2	0:30

4.	noiselake 3	0:53

5.	noiselake 4	0:43

6.	mal de debarquement	2:08

7.	noiselake 5	2:28

8.	noiselake 6	2:36

9.	noiselake 7 (the istari rework)	4:57

10.	noiselake 8 (nausea low rework)	1:24

11.	noiselake 9 (an overture)	1:57

12.	noiselake 10	4:02

13.	another accident	1:54

14.	furnace beat	8:22

Credits

released March 7, 2025

produced and mixed by jp meldrum; no mastering.

noiselake 7 is a rework of the istari's "Floor Certifuge"
theistari.bandcamp.com/track/floor-centrifuge

noiselake 8 is a rework of nausea low's "drag"
nausealow.bandcamp.com/track/drag

album cover is a heavily altered screenshot from a youtube video on data moshing in unreal engine. thought it looked like a stan brakhage movie.

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