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Monday, February 19, 2007

Slowness

posted by on February 19 at 14:33 PM

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It’s a slow day on Line Out, which got me thinking, “What’s the slowest piece of music I own?” Some candidates so far:

Sleep - Jerusalem/Dopesmoker

Boris - Absolutego

Sigur Ros - ()

Any suggestions? What’s the most motionless music in your collection?

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Moog System by Pauline Oliveros,
it's over 30 minutes of noise. Noise counts as slow music, eh?

Posted by maria | February 19, 2007 2:55 PM
2

Not necessarily. Some noise can fluctuate quite rapidly, giving it some sense of movement while still being inherently noise, don't you think. See: the Locust.

Posted by Eric Grandy | February 19, 2007 3:00 PM
3

mono - "the remains of the day",
an appropriate title. slow song for a slow day.

Posted by anna_upstairs | February 19, 2007 3:13 PM
4

um, Gwen Stefani's rapping skills?

Posted by another upstairs | February 19, 2007 3:18 PM
5

stars of the lid - the tired sounds of stars of the lid. so slow it fills up pieces of vinyl.

Posted by halfherre | February 19, 2007 3:55 PM
6

Earth's 2: Special Low Frequency Version.

Most of Morton Feldman's canon, too.

Posted by segal | February 19, 2007 4:05 PM
7

Noothgrush.

Posted by Kim Hayden | February 19, 2007 4:53 PM
8

Corrupted.

Posted by - | February 19, 2007 4:56 PM
9

auburn lull--alone i admire

Posted by bing | February 19, 2007 5:03 PM
10

Sorry Eric, I can't communicate very well. I meant to ask, Noise qualifies as music? The noise I listened to seemed to move rather slowly through the soundscape.

Posted by maria | February 19, 2007 5:54 PM
11

la monte young

Posted by dna | February 19, 2007 7:01 PM
12

Allinson + Brown's 'AV 1'.

One track, particularly, has three notes over fifteen minutes, decomposing like an Andrei Tarkovsky film.

Posted by Fawkes | February 19, 2007 7:32 PM
13

It's got to be the Autechre and Hafler Trio album "æo³-³hæ" :)

Posted by PaulCam | February 19, 2007 8:10 PM
14

ummm... isn't Low considered slow anymore? Two Step wins it for me. Dopesmoker is also a good choice. Or anything by Sunn(((O)

Posted by two wheeled death machine | February 19, 2007 8:52 PM
15

arvo pärt's alina

Posted by josh | February 19, 2007 8:53 PM
16

radiohead, air, sigur ros, apparat.. i
don't get a whole lot slower then that.

Posted by Jedd! | February 19, 2007 10:38 PM
17

sun kil moon

boards of canada

tycho

hey, i almost bought that pauline oliveros record a couple weeks ago-- had too much stuff already in my hands though. it looked interesting and the packaging was cool as hell-

Posted by graig markel | February 20, 2007 9:06 AM
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The live version of Low's "Shame" from their EP One More Reason to Forget is super slo-mo goodness, marred only at the top of the track by some excitable loudmouth in the audience who yelled out "whooo!"

Posted by Explorer | February 20, 2007 9:39 AM
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Posted by Blue Moon | February 20, 2007 11:40 AM
20

Monarch's "Amplifire Death March." The song is 60 minutes long and probably averages about 2 beats per minute.

Posted by Erik R | February 21, 2007 8:17 PM
21

Low - Shame

Live in Amsterdam

Go here and click track 5:

Take a HUGE bong toke, call the post office to stop your mail for a while and sit back and steep.

http://www.fabchannel.com/low

Posted by Stoned Turtle | February 22, 2007 12:41 PM

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