Ian Simpson - Bacillus / Noise Research


Artist: Ian Simpson

WTF projects: Bacillus / Noise Research

Tags: Experimental, noise, soundscape, ambient, electronic,
musique concrete

WTF Quality: deep and sensitive divings into elements of sound

Lifespan 1980s -

Country: UK

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One artist, two pseudonyms. Bacillus and Noise Research.

In the albums of Bacillus, long sweeping sound panoramas drift on
through suspended moments. We travel through oceans
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and float above the waves
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we dive through forests, sit in stillness, then run through the trees,
zig zag, return, lift up, and rustle through treetops
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we enter abandoned factories inhabited by ghosts who slowly and
imperceptibly wind up the machinery to unleash their rusty groans,
the power flickers on and off, wind blows through, rats scurry by
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we are teleported into alien crafts and hear the telepathic language of
beings who exist in the rift between dimensions. Spinning, low glow
in darkness, traveling at immense speeds yet simultaneously stationary
















we watch ages of history roll beyond to the tune of cybotic angels'
voices
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we walk down endless train tunnels, a barely comprehensible woman's
voice reading off nonsense through the intercom system
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fields of crystalline rainbow flowers
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priest mages in long dark robes, faces shrouded, reciting
incantations through the electricity in their fingertips, as they walk in
circles
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foreign planetary habitats
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In the music of noise research, we enter the sounds, into the realm
where sonic vibrations and electricity merge.
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the sound of pulses cycling through a circuit, different switches,
amplitudes, wave forms
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feedback loops of micro-frequencies
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the static chaos of twisted frayed wires sending the signal in all
directions, back around, splitting, joining, leaping, and dying.
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a magnetic tape, wrinkled and warped, speed erratic, blurbing
through vaguely recorded sounds
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the synthesizer's guts revealed and subtly prodded
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radio waves, sent through space, into satellites, bouncing between
towers, striking antennae, all in a moment
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the echoes of deep space emulated in the trans-dimensional winding of
strings and quarks
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You can find Bacillus and Noise Research music here:

http://www.archive.org/details/FirstCircuit
 First Circuit (on EM)

http://www.archive.org/details/CollapseEpem073
 Collapse EP (on EM)

http://www.archive.org/details/SlowlyImploding
 Slowly Imploding (on EM)

http://www.archive.org/details/LithiumBurnem074
 Lithium Burn (split with Fonik on EM)

http://www.archive.org/details/NoiseResearchI
 Noise Research I (on EM)

http://www.archive.org/details/NoiseResearchIi
 Noise Research II (on EM)

http://www.archive.org/details/noise_research_experiment_III
 Noise Research III (on Bivouac)

http://www.archive.org/details/emp064
 Noise Research IV (on EMP)

http://www.archive.org/details/ca347_gdnr
 Ocean Epicure (with Graham Dunning on Clinical Archives)

http://www.archive.org/details/evoluon_amp045
 Evoluon EP (AMP Recs)

- Jeemobon