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Beholden—

Favorite music trends in the system. Tell me yours. Also if you know any good metal venues.

🤘,
Denny
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\subsection*{Beholden To The Heat Of The Lamps}

Denny! Lovely to hear from you! Hope things are going well.

It is no secret that I am quite into noise music. It drives A Finger Pointing nuts when I get super into it and cannot talk about the difference between various approaches. I could go on about the various noise music trends that I have seen over the years (there is white noise, yes, but what of pink noise? What of that rainbow selection of different statics? And god, give me stuttercore any day~), but one that I remember following incredibly fervently was that of reanalog death folk.

Some clever trickster figured out how to make magnetic tape media — or something approximating it close enough — and recorded much of their music on it. All sorts of genres, of course, but all utilizing the limitations of the medium (see "I am sitting in a sim" for a particularly silly take). Thus was borne the reanalog metagenre.

Me being me, though, what caught my attention was the way that some fucked with the media enough to nudge it well into the realm of unnerving, drawing out noises that I had not considered. The genre that benefited most from this particular uncanniness, though, was folk, and many began to play with shifting lyrics to existing tunes toward horror, telling strange tales of strange beasts over half-destroyed pianos and banjos on fire into a reel-to-reel recorder strung with half-melted tape.

I cannot put my finger on why, but it was simply divine. Boss hated it, but too fucking bad~

As for venues, you might actually have better luck asking Motes. I love metal, do not get me wrong, but that girl is fucking wild in the pit.

🤘,

Beholden