Uboa posts
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Noise school #666: abusing "input raw data" in Audacity
Hey, so been a while since I've posted, I've been beyond exhausted. However I have something simple, quick and fun you can try to make small harsh noise clips. (or entire songs if you are lucky and don't kill your computer. be careful!) These small clips can be very useful for glitchy so...
An Angel of Great and Terrible Light stems
I've decided to *slowly* release the stems of my songs, at least the ones which I still have the project files for. The first one here is probably going to be the most demanded one. All the tracks are there, but a few of them have-baked down FX, although I don't think thats going to be an is...
Uboa - Tongues of Other Ears (WIP)
Another done-in-one sitting song based on complex LFO patches and royalty-free samples. It sounds a little like Ben Frost, who I'd been listening to a lot recently, and reading interviews about how he gets his particular 'organic' synth sound. In one interview he mentions stacking many, ...
My Cousin Cthulhu (2010) - Demo
Two-song demo by my old post-hardcore band which didn't work out as I was too nerdy to find committed members and a place to practice. My bestie Tom is the lead vocals, with mine only in "worms". (and the group chants lol). Guitars done by by me, bass by Tom (correct me if wrong) and me,...
Uboa - The Origin (Deaf) (Live on Behind The Mirror)
Here is a live-to-radio set played on Behind The Mirror, the noisey industrial hour on RTR 92.1 FM, a radio station in Perth/Boorloo. It's probably one of my best-sounding recorded live sets I've ever done, and is even a strong candidate for an official Bandcamp release (let me know in comme...
Uboa - Diaphragmatic Breathing
A bit of stress relief during my burnout arc. Harsh Noise Wall (open debate on the 'wall' part). Done in a single sitting, based on live noise improvisation and sample overlaying. Lyrics = ???. Have fun (or not, idc). My girlfriend said, I quote, "it sounds like you're drowning".
Ableton Cut-Up Sample Slicing 101
A lot of my noise is sample slicing. Please Don't Leave Me, Thigh High Cat Tights and Light Eater are probably the most obvious examples of using this technique. They are the various (often literal) explosions of glitchy on/off sound that seem quite "technical". As a youtube comment to o...
Validation Pyre
Another soundcloud song I am really proud of. It's also available for download on soundcloud, but I've provided an mp3 here instead of an "AIFF" file.Mostly a sound collage of heavily edited film soundtracks butchered into loops, paulstretched, reversed, reverb'd and compression ...
Protect Me
I was reluctant to upload this song, mostly because it was made (and is about) for an ex to show them ableton. Obviously songs about (or with) exes is a tricky deal, even if the relationship didn't end on the most negative of terms. Either way, it's here for the sake of completeness as I con...
Drowning on Dry Land
Another song from the soundcloud archives (which at the time I called 'filaments', with the intention of maybe collecting them together as a release with that name) that you can download here. Made around 2016, same year as Hook Echo.While not as immediately compelling as Entropy, I do still...
Entropy Always Wins
Another soundcloud song I didn't realise wasn't here. This is one of my favourite soundcloud-only songs and something I wish I had the old project files to so I could mix it to 'fit' with a few other songs for an EP. I thought I'd say a few things about this song from 2015-16.Thi...
Lavender Psychosis
A request. I didn't realise some of the stuff on soundcloud isn't here and now you can download it. It was WIP at the time but I don't really intend on finishing it, and doubt that Ableton file isn't missing files. The choirs were inspired by the Annihilation soundtrack, specifically...
Another Violated Angels excerpt
Sorry for the lack of posting. I was meant to get around to doing some more noise school this week, but my local pharmacist had given me the wrong dose of my antidepressant (and the text saying the dose on my pack was fine printed) and have been having a horrible time for the last week and a half. S...
Willing to do feedback on any song a patreon sends thru
I’ve been helping a few friends with a compositional and production aspects of noise sounds design recently and have realised I can provide the service to y’all too. Free because you are already giving me money!Feel free to DM me on the Patreon page (or leave in comments below) for some construc...
New Project: Violated Angels - Montauk 110
Me and my girlfriend violet (who goes by vi a. and who I collaborated with on a EP last year) have started a new band on the more dark ambient side of the spectrum, but still with a dash of harsh noise (see above). It sounds like a combination of both of our projects.The main inspiration behind it w...
Video: Illegal Abandoned Factory gig circa 2018-19
Here's another set sent by Nova from a few years ago, which the dug up on their phone about a week ago. It was massive fundraiser festival run by a bunch of anarchists to raise funds for West Papuan refugees (if I recall correctly). Some other artists I played with - some of us at the same time ...
Video - Live @ Trash Cult 21/4/23
Here's a high quality upload of the set I played at Trash Cult earlier in April, as posted on instagram. Might eventually upload to YouTube, but I have enough terrible sets (usually ones with the computer crapping itself on stage or me simply not practicing) on there already.As the instagram put...
Sometimes Light + Jouissance (MP3 320)
I still have a few people ask for these two releases after I took them down a while back.I took them down as I made both while closeted and are very much a product of that time. Unlike Coma Wall, which I still occasionally think has its own merits, I see these works as derivative (specifically of Kh...
Soft Dementia Over Vermin Sky: Lyrics Unpacked
Going to try something new. I remember posting some stuff about lyrics on genius from The Origin which I eventually deleted because I realise I'd prefer to let people come to their own conclusions.These are the lyrics to this song. Here I don't exactly want to give an authoritative interpret...
Please Don't Leave Me noise processing effect bus (Ableton)
These are (over two channels) the exact FX racks I used for noise in Please Don't Leave Me, featuring (left to right):-A gate to chop it up when the volume goes beneath a certain level. Kind of an auto-cut up function-A saturator, so it's always distorted, using specific eq/colour settings I...
Drum machine samples
Hey! I made some samples using ableton's operator for drum hits, which if anybody is interested I can teach in a bit (leave a comment below so I don't forget). I use these samples myself occasionally, and some of them are on upcoming projects. There's also a few melodic drones there in t...
The Flesh of the World vocal FX rack (ableton)
Here is the clean vocal effects rack I used on that release. It's designed for a ribbon mic (specifically the SEX1r) but could be useful for others as a good starting point to unpack for clear clean vocals. Contains:-hi pass to get rid of low-end mud-noise gate to remove ...unwanted noise-de-ess...
Scotomised (Early Version)
Another Apple of Every Eye post! An early version of "Scotomised" that was very much a WIP at the time, missing Res's contributions and a very other factors like some baritone guitar. It's a much more droney song, but I prefer the final version.
Anorexia, She Wrote (WIP)
TW eating disordersWritten in the same time as Empathy Loop, I was having trouble with eating at the time (medication induced) and wrote a song about it. This one has a small amount of (clean) vocals. I think it suffers from the same issues of the other song but I don't know if it's unsalvag...
Some Samples from The Apple of Every Eye
I found some ambient loops, some of which I used in The Apple of Every Eye. I feel others might have some use of them. Some of them are also used elsewhere and actually might appear on later releases (don't worry you can still use them with credit).
Hey sorry for the delay in posting. + "Empathy Loop"
I've gotten sick twice in the last few weeks, once with the flu and then again with a throat infection/cold. I am having to go a doctor and see if my meds are interfering with my immune system. On top of this I have to do the usual amount of Uboa work.Got some options on some easy-to-do-while si...
No Anaesthetic (Live Demos 18/2/23)
While I've put up the live recording (still sadly not multitrack) of the show at the Evelyn on the day, hours prior to the show I practiced and recorded the jam (also, again, not multitrack to save HDD space). The jam before it sounds a little better in a headphone/speaker context as I wasn'...
Of You
"Of You" is a melodic industrial song that I found on my hard drive circa 2021, recorded during hard lockdown. It didn't have a title (just "build up idea") so I took the only lyric I could hear as I didn't want another "untitled". I think I did this in a day while li...
Clanky sample pack (fixed, hopefully)
hey I said I was on holiday with FFS (luckily won't need a fundraiser anymore, still might release that EP eventually) so I put this on auto-post a few days from now. the future is now.sample pack of junk, metal, washing machines field recordings, weird bits I found. hopefully most of them loop ...
Live @ The Evelyn 18/2/2023
Hey, here's the recording of the set (yes the one that was on twitter recently) with a small amount of polish and mastering. It's straight from the laptop as I feed everything through ableton on stage, hence why it sounds quite clear.I've also split the sections into seperate tracks as t...
