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Afterlife

by Michael Bell

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Keine Welt 05:08
Der Panther--Rainer Maria Rilke Sein Blick ist vom Vorübergehn der Stäbe so müd geworden, daß er nichts mehr hält. Ihm ist, als ob es tausend Stäbe gäbe und hinter tausend Stäben keine Welt. Der weiche Gang geschmeidig starker Schritte, der sich im allerkleinsten Kreise dreht, ist wie ein Tanz von Kraft um eine Mitte, in der betäubt ein großer Wille steht. Nur manchmal schiebt der Vorhang der Pupille sich lautlos auf –. Dann geht ein Bild hinein, geht durch der Glieder angespannte Stille – und hört im Herzen auf zu sein. His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world. As he paces in cramped circles, over and over, the movement of his powerful soft strides is like a ritual dance around a center in which a mighty will stands paralyzed. Only at times, the curtain of the pupils lifts, quietly--. An image enters in, rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone. - English translation by Stephen Mitchell
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A noise release. This one is kind of whispery since the neighbors are always home now.

The noise albums are quite personal. Sometimes I reach an impasse with strictly ordered music for the time being and can't bear the thought of conventional melody or harmony. I turn away to just rhythm and texture: free, aleatoric, chaotic.

I offer the noise albums (Threshold, Nativity, Afterlife so far) because I enjoy making them, and offering them completes the making. I really don't expect anyone to enjoy them like I do, but I want them to exist in the world--they are the outline of my hand on the cave wall. Perhaps they will be discovered sometime by someone as an effective soundtrack for a specific mood.

I recorded 14 tracks for this one over the course of my first week sheltering in place, 14 being such a significant number in these distancing days.

For those interested: I used an electric guitar, guitar effects, and sampled human and animal voices...no synthesizers this time.


May you be among the lucky ones.

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released March 26, 2020

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Michael Bell Bellingham, Washington

A Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too.

Some of this is music for video games. The rest is a fairly raw document of my ongoing attempt to find something new among the blinking lights in my studio at home.

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