Tag: drone

William Fowler Collins – The Ghosts of Eden Trail

A transplant from the East Coast to Albuquerque, William Fowler Collins has been combining guitar sounds, various processing effects and electronics, and cassette recording equipment to create brooding experimental works since 2008. Perdition Hill Radio was released by Type Records in 2009 and it bounced around a while before entering into my record collection a few years later and it’s been a match made in heaven. Deep drones persist throughout the record and it aurally captures a sparseness that, according to Tiny Mix Tapes:

is the soundtrack for going under. The other channels on the radio dial have completely vanished into the void with almost everything else.

In addition to his solo releases, Collins has collaborated or been featured on split releases with Daniel Menche and GoG. A graduate of the MFA program in Music at Mills College, he was teaching a class at Sound Art at the University of New Mexico as of the most recent update, where he is doing the Lord’s work introducing people to Merzbow. Those interested in hearing more from collins should check out his Bandcamp or Discogs.

Ancient Beyond Knowledge

I’ve been wanting to put something like this together since I started recording music and it is through the inestimable patience and talent of Miranda Langevin that I am able to bring this to you. There’s more information about the full length release here. Because the whole thing is about 40 minutes long and Miranda had gotten an amazing job on a feature set we had to film an excerpt.

At the risk of over-explaining, this video attempts to capture an experience with hypothetical extraterrestrials. It has been postulated that encounters with extraterrestrials are so bizarre because the visitors are coming from other dimensions and our means of perceiving them are too rooted in our own dimension to make sense of them. In part influenced by the computer animation team at Ancient Aliens and by the wild imagery of Jack Vance’s Dying Earth series, this is my attempt to create visually what I hope the full piece accomplishes aurally.