Chaos Loops, by David Hopewell and Duncan Black

Chaos Loops

by David Hopewell and Duncan Black

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1.	Double Helix 14:43	info	buy track
2.	Shatner's Bassoon 04:43	info	buy track
3.	Westworld 03:57	info	buy track
4.	Liminal 06:11	info	buy track

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Chaos loops is based on a series of unstable drones, clicks, and electronic noises made from a feeding-back guitar put through an array of effects. The effects contain random elements and pitch shifters that are constantly failing to find a stable note. This produces unpredictable self-generating soundscapes; sometimes gentle and ambient and sometimes atonal but way more interesting than a simple repeating loop. Four unstable sonic environments were set up and David Hopewell and Duncan Black used them as a basis for improvisation. The results vary from a gentle detailed piece, "Double Helix" that would sit happily on an adventurous ambient album to "Shatners Bassoon" which is brutally atonal. It was all recorded in one take with no planning (the unstable feedback environments are impossible to replicate) and only a couple of edits.
Cover image "The butterfly effect is illustrated using a light source attached at the free end of double pendulum" by Cristian V. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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released May 23, 2022

David Hopewell - Soundscapes, guitar
Duncan Black - Guitar

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