Xiu Xiu Makes the Most Horrendous Synth Sounds Humanly Possible
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2024
- Toting an extensive range of sonic machines, experimental group Xiu Xiu’s driving members Angela Seo and Jamie Stewart recently paid a visit to our studio to give us a lesson on intentionally crafting “the most disgusting sounds” possible. With their eclectic assortment of test equipment oscillators, a towering Eurorack modular system, effects pedals, and more, prepare your eardrums to be blessed (or barraged, depending on your inclination for harsh electronic sounds) by the pummeling frequencies contained in this video.
With some of our favorite pieces like the Make Noise DPO, Verbos Harmonic Oscillator, and the aptly named Total Sonic Annihilation from Death by Audio, Angela and Jamie show off a few setups for building up immensely destructive audio. Their valuable insight into curating feedback and noise with intention offers plenty of valuable tips and considerations for prospective explorers of the unpredictable and harsher worlds of sound design.
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Timeline:
00:00 - Intro
00:53 - Pedal Feedback Loop
02:46 - Jam
03:47 - Trogotronic Valkyrie w/ Test Oscillators
05:19 - Eurorack Patches
09:14 - Outro
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mom and dad
hi polyvinyl
Ayy
Yes
UwU
so true Polyvinyl Records
I love how self aware they seem. It keeps their music from beeing percieved as pretentious. They have genuine passion for this shit and can have fun with making stuff
"I just loop everything around and it makes horrible sounds which is great." :)
Met Jamie at a Swans show...I was not aware he was about to open with a 30min or so noise set. What a maddening experience in the best way possible. Also Jamie is a real nice dude too
I saw him on that same tour. 26 yo me would have loved it but 19 yo me was mostly confused and only slightly terrified. Still, great show!
Met him and Chris Pravdica after the Xiu Xiu show 2 yrs ago. They were super friendly and positive
S•W•A•N•S
@@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245
PUBLIC CASTRATION IS A GOOD IDEA
Absolute dream concert
my man is running around with a synth that could literally explode whenever. legend.
This is the video that made me understand noise as a genre
It's not disgusting... It's EXCITING
I think they would disagree
It's both
yep
It's even better enjoyed live!
@@VesterDude I’ve only been to one noise show, but it’s spoiled a large portion of recorded noise music for me. The performance art aspect was something I didn’t really expect, but it adds to the experience in away you can’t get from just sitting down and listening
Duhhh
Richard D. James uses these sounds to fall asleep at night
I was gunna make a Richard comment and here you are lol cheers !!!
th-cam.com/video/pPUN2OKMfaA/w-d-xo.html
Makes sense since he sleeps like 2 hours per night
Merzbow tho
Its relaxing indeed. And im not joking. Do i have to worry?
Jamie is little sweaty that´s how I like him
You can tell how hella bright the studio lights are, those things feel like giant ovens in your face
Jamie is about 20 percent vaseline by weight
This comment is hilarious omfg
he’s just worried about the oscillator catching fire
you guys are killing me
Imagine handing your friend the aux and he start playing this
they look so greasy. I love them
I wonder what they smell like
ope
@@jeffjohnson419 they probably smell completely scentless. Like neutral soap
Lookin like a whole coconut oil
Awful, truly disgusting, horrendous. Excellent video, very much enjoyed.
This is the polar opposite of the “very good, unsubscribed” meme.
They're in for a rude awakening when they're at the pearly gates and find out god is casio synth
This made me crack up
Jokes on you, there is no god . . . .
@@augusts1bro you really got him!!!
@@dfkdb6249Athiest hitman fr
yeah, synths...nice.... noises....rad... all very cool, but what i want to know is what's their facial skincare routine ..??
Being a vegan will give you the that Todd Ingram glow
looks like a tub of vaseline should do the trick
yo check out the AMA they did the other day; they literally both drop their respective routines
@@joshcraft197 I was about to say this and you beat me by 20 seconds
I'm pretty sure this is the skin care routine. Disgusting noise actually has many revitalizing features that affect the skin
"what music do you like?"
"It's complicated..."
Story of my life...
It probably already exists somewhere but I’d like to see a “noise-off” battle. -Excellent sounds!
That would be great!
Here is my entry: th-cam.com/video/Qbgo78zfVm8/w-d-xo.html
A color commentator and play-by-play explaining what the heck is going at "bunch of gear on a folding table" noise show would be amazing. This is about as close as I've seen which is awesome.
Bring Speedy J in for a session with these 2 (remember Speedy J’s Public Energy #1? This guy does)
@@sawtooth808 I haven't thought of Speedy J in 15 years or something. Thanks.
Nothing can beat dentist's dental drill sound
As a noise fan, it was embarrassing when I started vibing to the sound of them drilling my teeth lmao
I love going watching any kind of weird music on TH-cam, because half the comments are 'this is the WORST things, noone likes thi s u all lieeeeing' and the other half is 'pffff, I listened to this when I was a foetus it's so boring is not even Avant Garde'. Perfect balance
Especially punk bands lmao. Its either "this band SUCKS its all just whining and screaming!!!!1!1" or "their recent albums are so bad it does not define their music at all, just listen to their first album >:(
my dog was surprisingly fascinated during all the video
Dog's got taste
This is what my brain sounds like most of the time.
🫂🖖🫂
Maybe you should go get some help...
2:14 This is an XBOX starting up.
Me too unless it's happening outside my head lol. If I turn on venetian snares or listen to machine sounds my brain goes silent but normally it's just constantly changing sounds that don't seem to have a particular rhythm or reason. When I'm really stressed it gets worse til the point it can get hard to hear my myself think.
Mood
I like the thumbnail because it implies that Jamie and Angela have the ability to shoot lasers out of their eyes and make people go deaf
This was amazing, hope their next LP has some harsh noise stuff on it. Yes I’ve heard the Merzbow collab
Okay, but have you heard the Chelsea Wolfe collab where they covered The Cure?
He said hes working on a harsh noise collab album rigth now! so ur probs gonna get wat u want
@@Andor. While we're waiting we have Jamie's solo album Aggressive Chainsmoking Alcoholic for some solid dark ambient harsh noise 👍
100 gecs collab when
Their subscription stuff (xiuxiu69 on Bandcamp) has lots and lots of noise stuff
when jamie blinks it looks like it’s in reverse
"i have never played a synthesizer it makes me nervous" ( unintelligible hand motions )
they are perfect
also the googly eyes on the dpo module
He didn't say that he's never played a synthesizer before. He meant he's never played one that made him nervous because it could possibly catch on fire and also because if you opened it you could get electrocuted to death. He was talking about the Trogotron Valkyrie synthesizer (with test oscillator) here 👉 03:47 👈
Basically me when I do anything in Harmor in FL Studio
What I have learned from this video is just take what you think is noise and never ever stop
TH-cam algorithm: you’d like this.
Me: .... i love it.
🌝🌚
Incredibly handsome band
Lol, I'm glad I'm not the only one that likes creating chaos. A couple months ago I bought a guitar with a sustainer pickup, and ever since then all I've done is create out there sounds with my assortment of pedals. I basically play my pedals instead of playing the guitar since the sustainer pickup does all the work. It's really opening up so many new possibilities that wouldn't be possible on a guitar without the pickup.
This is probably a really cliche suggestion, but have you ever listened to the first Grinderman album? Warren Ellis really channels some terrible sounds into actual notes. He does it on a violin too, much of the time, in his other band 'The Dirty Three'.
You could use a compressor sustainer to the same effect, no?
Are you a fan of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, by chance?
Her pedal board is actually kinda pro guitar. Sweet octave fuzz, you got good reverb delay, trem, vibrato, eq.
this gave me a newfound respect for the awful noises that albums have sometimes that break my ears
“Hey babe, you mind if I put on some white noise to fall asleep to?”
4:59
*throws phone in fear of explosion*
Yo so dope to have Xiu Xiu on and share some noise techniques! Awesome demo with a killer artists!
I love the forehead sweat and squinting. Xui xui rules
WAIT THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO MADE GIRL WITH A BASKET OF FRUIT HOW DID I NOT MAKE THE CONNECTION LOL
How ending of Ian Curtis Wishlist sounds to Xiu Xiu beginners 🤣🤣
they're like a happy version of prurient
sad we didn't get to hear how that streichfett contributed to this beautiful collage of despair
Incredible audio experience. Fantastic Xiu Xiu, true sonic experimenters. 🪐
i absolutely love this video, it got me into noise and i keep coming back to it
Hii big fan of yours
Call Angela's store "It's a Wonderful Life" or Xiu Xiu's Pedals
4:56 ayo im on my phone speaker in my bathroom and idk if its the room reverb or what but goddamn that shit was weirdly satisfying
This video takes me back to the origins of my own nosiemaking when I was a teen, influenced by classic electronic music I heard on records. I had a wonderful boom box with lots of RCA jacks on the back. I plugged my guitar into one phono preamp input and the made a feedback loop with y-patch cables. This was before I knew about guitar effects pedals. I also had a Sony open reel tape deck with tune preamp and power amp I used for a fuzz box into a guitar amp with spring reverb set to 19 , to get Fripp tones. Then I took a risk and routed the auxiliary speaker output through a wahwah pedal back into one of the instrument inputs. Nothing broke but the amp made barking noises.
My headphones really like your dangerous oscillators.
Stuff like this got me into Eurorack. Doing Feedback looping with a mixer is so much fun.
I got an old junky mixer. What do I do to mess with that without hurting my speakers or hearing? Lol
@@joelkulesha8284 FX send output on mixer into pedals, chained together, then instead of returning them to FX/aux return, the output of the last pedal goes into one of the mixer ins. Careful with levels and watch out for overheating though
@@joelkulesha8284 limiter on the master channel
if you see the first 24 secs without knowing them you would think "Oh! what a goofy pair! I bet they sound really funny"
They need to score a horror film
this was sick, love these guys. this is how I started (and still mainly do) make music, just horrid awful sounds w pedals and synths
DO YOU LOVE ME, JAMIE STEWART?
I bought a pest repellent set which sounds exactly the same as this just in the frequency domain above human hearing range. I captured the sounds from it snd shifted the whole thing into human hearing range. It sounds so much alike. No more mice, rats or anything in the my wood workshop which was a barn some time go.
3:28 I guess the teapot is ready
In my brain Jamie Stewart and Sufjan Stevens occupy the place in my brain. Despite their music sounding very different, I see many parallels between them.
Very pretty sounds! Delightful!
hi there Alien!
@@loopbasedzero 👽
Loving the AK Press-hoodie!
absolutely great tones!!! well done guys!
Not into Noise music, but This was rad as Hell!
So you are then...
@@emptyboxesandrooms lol, i guess 😆
Tbh noise music is insanely captivating as a performance art. Or being part of actual song (Swans, Xiu Xiu). But having Merzbow albums it's really... boring to actually listen to it. But live shows are really cool.
I was not prepared for that out of phase part at 8:25. That was horrendous and legit painful. Well done.
The rest of it was very exciting. Loved these people
check out "tunnel of goats"
Now they should make the most beautiful sound possible
As long as I live I will never get over "by Garfield"
"horrendous chaos" was said so nonchalantly. Love it!!
Inspirational and fun, thanks for sharing!
This is the best!!! Thanks for making this!
6:41 they WOULD put googly eyes on their osc knobs 😂
Thank you. I needed this.
I caught a solo xiu xui show opening for swans at St Andrews Hall in detroit a few years back. My first live noise experience, it was great.
My first synth modules are arriving in the mail today, can't wait to fuck shit up lol
Send me the noises you make please
I almost went to that show. Had a panic attack before hand, probably a good thing I decided not to it sounds like.
wow you make these incredible sounds, and i check the most recent release and it was basically the opposite! i basically wanted to here this noises in the tracks ! :)
Every album is its own world
What you're looking for is Jamie's solo album An Aggressive Chain Smoking Alcoholic :)
I think the modified Hewlett-Packard sine wave test equipment was my favorite.
The pedal feedback is cool, should do a video on it.
5:30 me trying to pick up KXLU’s signal
this has been the final nail for convincing me to get my General Radio 1310-A test oscillator worked into my setup
Oh dear God, my face just melted off :O fantastically over-the-top sonic mayhem. I like it!
Cool. Just what I needed for relaxing at home
The opening of this video gives my brain a massage. 😊
pretty neat to see xiu xiu going off lately as i was just recently getting back into them (liars too, that collab was unexpected)
Now that's a video to play out loud on the TV
This is how I mainly use modular synth.
It’s fun.
0:29 is my favorite, sounds like something from Metroid prime.
Also, the pedal thing at the beginning kinda reminds me of the intro to “Pistola” and “megalomaniac” by incubus.
These guys are my musical inspirations.
Best part was the feedback on the guitar pedals. Now that was inspiring. More GAS, now for a modular pedal synth!!!
not only amazing sounds, but also love the ak press hoodie!
Amazing!!!! Love it a lot
love this! thanks!
Damn now I really want to listen to Xiu Xiu
Getting close to my favorite noise...scanning am stations late at night. The ones without a station.
This is what happens when its 3am and youre high af with a room full of gadgets and no inspiration
or too much inspiration?
That a what I end up doing everytime i start playing a synth with nothing specific my mind you Just go for the POWAH
Would love to pop a squat in my favorite lawn chair, throw on my 3D movie glasses and enjoy some of these nice little dittys
I must be from a different planet because these sounds are beautiful. Reminds me of the Throbbing Gristle, Severed Heads, Chris and Cozy days. Also listening to this first thing in the morning while drinking Coffee.
Listening on iPhone speakers for extra method acting
This is incredible. Particularly the TR-Valkyrie. I need to start saving for one of those.
Sounds like a person trapped in the sewers sending morse code to his friends while a disgusting sludge monster chases him
I remember when Jamie was semi local and was like "lol all i can afford is korg Ds-10" so this is pretty sweet.
I had to stop the video when he dropped the brain surgery analogy, I just felt true awe at a horror I can't imagine completely.
I love this video so much!!!
So far, the best video i watched today.
Please make that pedal store happen!
I would love to see them live.
Awesome!
For some reason this reminds me of the repetitive noise they find in the movie Contact. Actually bugged me out as a kid. 😆
Those noises are just what i was looking for ✨ damn its so exciting!
Props to Angela for that AK Press sweatshirt
the Xui Xui pedal shop, that would be a cool place to hang out 😎