Optical Atrophy

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About

Oh, hello. I see you've stumbled across me. Please listen to the music to the top left. Enjoy.

I've tried to produce music that I'd like to listen to. That means somewhere in between crashing distortion and heartfelt lyrics and acoustics. I've recently purchased a mixing board, which means you'll be hearing a lot more lyrics. I listen to a lot of acoustic music, and fancy myself a poet of sorts.

Like a people, I go through my periods of being on and off, more often off than on, so if you like what you're hearing, please comment and give me the emotional boost. Also, I accept most friend requests, unless there is something seriously wrong.

Generally, my music is created through loops of smaller parts of music that I then build upon, and insert lyrics. Then, I de-construct the completed work over the track, and in some cases, produce a different counterpoint to go back to the music. This produces an interesting dynamic within the music. Instead of being a fighting game with the individual parts, it becomes a game of counterpoints.

This, to be fair, is more recent than more earlier work. My earlier work was based more on digital loops and noise, which I also find interesting, but in my case, is poorly produced. With the slow, steady march of time, I can only get better.

I am also connected with Soundevotion, which I am very excited about. Hopefully that will develop into something serious.

Also, because apparently it is customary to talk about the music you listen to, I am inspired by Tom Waits, Barenaked Ladies, Kaki King, and a lot of singer/songer writer and indie types. I also listen to Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, BT, Portishead, Oasis, Nine Inch Nails (The Slip is awesome by the way), and much much more.

And I'm not kidding. Please comment and friend.

OPTICAL ATROPHY is _, venturing into the world of music. He uses Optical Atrophy for all his creative pursuits.

RELEASES:

GRIND EP: August 8, 2007
Isolationism: "Nine Inch Nails" Soon
Songs for Flying: "FINISHED" Sunday, July 20th, 2008

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Jul 20, 2008

All's old that ends old.

Oh hey, wassup?

I've finished Songs for Flying. Its a little on the small side, but I like my albums brief. Since you aren't paying for it, and even if you were paying for it you wouldn't be paying for it, you don't get to complain about length.

My albums are …

Alls new that ends new.

So, I've embraced my singer/song writer side. But I'm not much of a singer. Ah well.

For here on in I'll be making mostly acoustic music, unless something changes in a big way. I'll let you know, the one person who reads this.

Isolationism may still come out, …

Wicked Looping, Live

I've seen Kid Beyond and Kaki King. This isn't how they loop. But it works for me.

I present two new songs:

Come So Far, and The sun is on my back.

Not downloadable as of yet because I am damn tired.

Both songs are fairly similar. I've tried to keep them …

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Matt Stevens, Jun 2, 2008:

Very cool

Drye / Primoz Verdnik, Aug 14, 2007:

Mr. Aged from soundevotion recommended your stuff, and I thought I'd give your tunes a spin. Listened to a couple of them, and Footprints is my favorite. I'd totally wanna get in there and jam along ;) I'll listen to the rest of your tunage now. Keep on the good work.