merge into stripes

coming soon, new, as yet unnamed, album from ‘merge into stripes’!
free preview tracks and video available for download below!

featuring the warped sound-generation skills of audiomancing improgrammer admachine and the twisted sound-manipulation talents of improgramming audiomancer bendy ‘merge into stripes’ channels “music” directly from the shimmering “consciousness” of the Non Ens, and crystallises it in crisp digital stereo. Performed “live”, with one being feeding fragmented loops, fractured samples and analog rhythms and riffs into a modern day general processing tool (which in turn nebulises, distorts, distills and bottles these moments of audio chaos into even stranger forms), ‘merge into stripes’ creates disturbient works of “art” that not even the members of the band are responsible for.

Truly experimental in nature, ‘merge into stripes’ have utilised the RealTime Interference Capabilities of reel-to-reel tape recordings of test tones, caged canaries and budgerigars, found reel-to-reel documentaries and presentations, and a live wandering rainbow lorikeet, to further enhance the unpredictable dynamic of the recordings. With as much removal as possible from the whims and preferences of the “musicians” involved, and as much room to “breathe” as “possible”, ‘merge into stripes’ truly are in danger of opening up gates to the Non Ens... gates that they may not be able to close.

Bendy, as well as being one of the first Melbournians to get up on stage with a 486 in an industrial groove-metal band (see the seminal gLOBALmINDfUCK is also one of the 16 Unnamed Unmentionables of the InterWebMegaLink Control Board; perhaps the most Unnamed of them all.

- L1 (preview track from forthcoming album)

- K2 (preview track from forthcoming album) [7.98mb]
- I3 (preview track from forthcoming album) [7.57mb]
- M3 (preview track from forthcoming album) [2.96mb]
- B3 (to communicate with others of its species) [6.82mb]
- E3 (to communicate with others of its species) [5.84mb]

comparable to: nurse with wound, supersilent, ...and oot jumped the mexican, otomo yoshihide, oim 6yv, IAO core, the true POD, fantomas.

available material:

- to communicate with others of its species - 2 CDs - $AU13 - buy here

All ‘merge into stripes’ albums released through Guitar and Plunger Studios.