bens music blog

Sound scientist from planet Earth. Just decided to bring my listening, composing, and practice blogs all in one place! Follow for sweet recommendations and some original music. 

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LOST SOUNDS S.3.E.3 - STRINGS

Tristian Perich - Drift Multiply Section 1

zake & city of dawn - Signaling

Trilok Gurtu - You, Remember This

Loise Bock - Prithee

Aphex Twin - Jywnethek

Kelly Moran - Helix

Marcel Grandjany - Aria in Classic Style for Harp and Organ, Op. 19

Nick Penny - Windharp and Wavesong

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LOST SOUNDS S.3.E.3 "music to sink thru the floor to"

Ovlov - Milk Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill Mark Pritchard - ? my bloody valentine - To Here Knows When Oeil - Strawberry Cream Manic Sheep - Mind Odyssey Hildur Gudnadottir - Elevation Low - Elevation The Dead Texan - The Struggle

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/49Zr8evoTXKeSZmB23XKP0?si=4a75d3aa78dc4691

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LOST SOUNDS S.3.E.2 "music to stare at the ceiling to"

Stars of the Lid - Requiem for Dying Mothers Pt 1 Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely Tim Hecker - In mother earth phase Philip Glass - Glassworks: I. Opening Squarepusher - I Wish You Could Talk Loise Bock - Horologic Pan-American - Het Volk Oneotrix Point Never - Submersible William Basinski - Melancholia II Employer - (R)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mORetCTezvBORpF708mev?si=816fb3fad42b4cba

https://soundcloud.com/kwlc-radio/lost-sound-of-the-underwater-space-people-22722-music-to-stare-at-the-ceiling-to?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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LOST SOUNDS S.3.E.1 "music to sit on a chair to"

this is a recap-post of the first episode of the new season of lost sounds of the underwater space people for this semester. every episode has a theme, this one is music to sit on a chair to. it was originally broadcasted on February 13, 2022.

Midwife - Enemy Radiohead - Everything in it's Right Place Grouper - Alien Observer Gia Margaret - for Zoya in China Boards of Canada - Dandelion Animal Collective - Baleen Sample Dan Deacon - Weeping Birch Brian Eno & Robert Fripp - Wind on Water Aphex Twin - Xtal Panda Bear - Drone The Octopus Project - I Saw The Bright Shinies

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LOST SOUNDS 11/21/21

Gia Margaret - for Zoya in China Radiohead - Idioteque The Octopus Project - Mmaj Arca - Mequetrefe Animal Collective - Hocus Pocus arovane - endolp oOoOO - 3; 51 AM M|O|O|N - Quixotic Clams Casino - Natural Aphex Twin - Xtal Crystal Castles - Vanished Dave Okuma - RTN New Order - Your Silent Face

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LOST SOUNDS 10/31/21

FUJ||||||||TA - keshiki (oops, i've started with this one before) encym - 3:3 (pillow mix) Puce Mary - Red Desert Sleep Clinic - Stray Light I - I Grouper - Ode to the blue Panda Bear - Untitled 2 Aphex Twin aisatsana [102] Animal Collective - Infant Dressing Table Dan Deacon - Slow With Horns / Run For Your Life

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LOST SOUNDS 10-03-21

Robert Fripp & Brian Eno - The Heavenly Music Corporation (I-IV)

Chuck Johnson - Calamus

Chuck Johnson - Riga Black

A Silver Mt. Zion - 13 angels standing guard round your bed

Todd Barton - Apeiron (Buchla Now)

Marcia Bassett - Influence Scrambler (Buchla Now)

Suzanne Cian - Empty Skies (Buchla Now)

Les Filles des Illighadad - Sarbajo

Sylvan Esso - Coffee

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LOST SOUNDS 9-26-21

I just realized I never did 9-19. I never made a list so it'll be hard to remember. but if for some reason someone wants me to do it just lmk and I'll dig it up. It had DJ Krush and Aphex Twin, I remember that.

Baba Do - Planet J

Ozdole Ide devoitche (Bulgaria's Women Choir)

Tin vjater vee (Bulgaria's Women Choir)

Dubious 101 - Stable Riot (flaring nostril remix)

Mus - tocade

Mus - avec alfil

Roomful of Teeth - Ansa Ya

Postal Service - Sleeping In

Panda Bear - I'm Not

Superorganism - Something for you M.I.N.D.

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LOST SOUNDS 9/12/21 - FALL 2021 PREMIERE EPISODE

First episode of the Fall season. Sundays at 2pm now (was 3).

song - artist

Dandelion - Boards of Canada White Horses - Low I Can Wait - Low All Night - Low God is a Cop - Midwife Enemy - Midwife Colours Move - Fuck Buttons Slow With Horns/Run For Your Life - Dan Deacon Helix (Edit) - Kelly Moran An Ending (Ascent) - Brian Eno (I Saw The Bright Shinies - The Octopus Project)

kwlc.luther.edu

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Demo, by Ben J.

4 track album

Hey!! I've been absent all summer, time for me to shamelessly revive this blog by plugging my latest release! I mean, that's kind of the point of this blog anyway. So I've been sitting on these songs for a very long time. At first they were just songs that I had played myself with my guitar and my so-bad-it's-bad voice. Eventually, I had the idea to "chiptuneify" a couple of them and it worked out amazing! I've basically never been so happy with how something I've made turned out. Then there was the Safe and Sound cover which I was originally going to do with a friend, which also came out tremendously. And then I did a last-minute gameboy rendition of my song "Birthday" which was originally a solo acoustic song I had on my soundcloud. That one I over-hauled with LSDJ, the rest are just generated with plain-ole MIDI running through my gameboy. So even most of this work was done a long while ago, and I've been sitting on this demo for a while not sure what to do with it. I shared it with a couple people with overwhelmingly positive support, but still, it somehow wasn't ready for me. This lead to a huge writer's block and inability to work on anything else! So finally it came to the point where I was heading back to college in a couple days and I wouldn't be bringing my computer with me, and I realized I had still never "finished" this demo. So I quickly did some last-minute tweaks and decided to post on bandcamp. And so far the reception has been unexpected yet wonderful! In fact, there may be CDs being run for it soon, so be on the lookout. There is more music from this bandcamp account in the future. Until then, please enjoy this and share with anyone who you think would be into it!

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LOST SOUNDS 4-17 AND PREVIOUS

Hello everyone. I came to upload my tracklist for today’s show and realized that I forgot to post my tracklists for my last two shows as well. I’ll post them all here. Listen at 3:00pm CST every Saturday at kwlc.luther.edu

4-17-21 Air

FUJI|||||||TA - keshiki Anna von Hausswolff - Outside the Gate (for Bruna) Kali Malone - Prelude Kali Malone - Locus of Repetition Sarah Davachi - Live in San Francisco (Excerpt) Sarah Davachi - Diaphonia Basilica (Version) GAS - Pop 1 and 2 Molly Nilsson - Hey Moon

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4-10-21 Country

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Military Alphabet, Job’s Lament, First of the Last Glaciers Dan Deacon - USA I-IV A Silver Mt Zion - 12 Angels Standing Guard Round Your Bed Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Stained Glass Body

3-27-21 Motion

Bogdan Raczynski - Kimi Wa Tsumannai, Boku O Iranai Bogdan Raczynski - Why? Why? Aphex Twin - Flim Chris Watson - Sierra Tarahumara Chris Watson - El Divisadero Aphex Twin - Avril 14 The Octopus Project - I Saw the Bright Shinies John Hopkins - Abandon Window  John Hopkins - Form By Firelight Moderat - Milk Panda Bear - Selfish Gene

3-20-21 Dreams

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool Animal Collective - Crestone tracks 4-8 Eric Satie -Trois Gymnopedies Wet Hair - Radio Machines / Gold Chains Animal Collective - Two Sails on a Sound Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica GROWING - Peace Offering The Dead Texan - The Struggle

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LOST SOUNDS TRACKLIST - 3/6/21

Death World's End Girlfriend - 100 Years of Choke Disasterpeace - Death Stray Light I - I 3:38 Stars of the Lid - Requiem for Dying Mothers Tim Hecker - In Death Valley Aphex Twin - aisatsana [102] Puce Mary - Red Desert  Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love For Planet Earth

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LOST SOUNDS TRACKLIST - 2/27/21

Lost Sounds of the Underwater Space People episode 2 - Life

Panda Bear - Drone Animal Collective - Queen in my pictures Animal Collective - Doggy  Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint (performed by Mats Bergström) Trisitan Perich - Surface Image (excerpt from Vicky Chow’s performance) Dan Deacon - Wet Wings Dan Deacon - Weeping Birch

on kwlc.luther.edu every Saturday at 3:00pm

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LOST SOUNDS TRACKLIST - 2/20/21

Hello everyone, I am doing a weekly program on my college’s radio station called Lost Sounds of the Underwater Space People (appropriately, if you are familiar with my previous work) and I wanted a way to share the tracklist, so I’m hijacking this blog for that purpose as well. If you actually came here from listening to the radio show, thanks! take a look around!

2-20-2021

Boards of Canada - Ready Lets Go / Music is Math arovane - siir / endolp  M|O|O|N - Dust  Kali Malone - Black Gate I Loise Bock - Horoscope Oneohtrix Point Never - Andro Tim Hecker - In mother earth phase Low - Tempest Grouper - Moon Is Sharp

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Happy new year! Some half-improvised saxophone to start 2021. Jazz improv can be so frustrating but also self-revealing. Something might just click and surprise you with a new emotion, then you follow it a little bit and it realizes itself. Then you’re not sure what just happened but you can feel a change.

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And on the day of Christmas my Gameboy sang to me, O Holy Night. 

Well, Boxing Day, I suppose. I was a little late on this one and I missed a couple days, but this is definitely the one that took the longest out of all of them. The other ones were all done usually within a single session, while this one took a couple days because I wanted something special for the final piece.

I used the full 4 channels of the device for this piece (although the noise channel only sparingly), and this arrangement really came from a special place of emotion for me. This Christmas was like none other but it was more powerful to me than ever before. And I think that’s for a couple reasons. One, because everything is so different this year, to see some tradition, some spirit; even if not in person, is such a blessing. Despite everything, Christmas is here. And secondly, actual religious affiliation aside, I reflected on the original Christmas story this year and thought about how it came from an awful place of hardship and darkness. A baby being born in a stable. But regardless, it was a Night Divine. It’s difficult for me to state exactly what I mean, and I know the point of this blog is just to talk about my music, but this Christmas really meant something to me, and I think part of that revealed itself in making this piece. And I am very grateful for that.

Finally, as I implied in my last post, this will be my last one of this 12 Days of Christmas tunes series. Even though I didn’t do it perfectly, I am still really proud with the consistency I did have. I usually never even get close to following through with these kinds of things. And also, the views on Youtube were incredible! Turns out short vertical videos is how to go big on that platform. Most of them, as of writing this now, came out between 800-1K views. I suppose in the grand scheme of things that’s not too crazy, but it’s a huge leap for me! It wasn’t even my intention, but it is a nice holiday gift to know that so many people may have watched and enjoyed these videos as I have gotten out of making them. Hopefully I can continue to be posting songs here. 

Anyway, by tradition the 12 days of Christmas has only just begun, really. Enjoy your winter!