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  • 65daysofstatic to tour Decomposition Theory

    DECOMPOSITION THEORY: LIVE ALGORITHMIC A/V PERFORMANCE

    Fresh from their critically acclaimed, infinitely-long and decidedly non-linear soundtrack to the universe-sized No Man’s Sky video game, and as active contributors to the burgeoning live-coding and ‘algorave’ scenes, with Decomposition Theory, 65daysofstatic are once again refusing to be easily categorised.

    Inspired by the ‘show us your screens’ attitude of live coders, their Decomposition Theory A/V show uses generative visuals to reveal the inner workings of 65’s musical algorithms. The code flashes by, logging every musical event as the band curate and sculpt the generative output in realtime. The musical process, not the band, is placed front and centre.

    Decomposition Theory is 65’s effort to imagine a space where music no longer has to take the shapes it is so often coerced into taking. In their own words:

    ‘Why are we doing this? No doubt, 65 are a long way from the frontline in any kind of struggle against capitalism and the abyss of a future it’s driving us toward. But perhaps there’s a minor supporting role in trying to imagine better futures. We are not railing against recorded music or albums or regular live shows, or what it can mean to be a band. However, these are all commodified forms. Almost all the ways anyone can relate to music these days are mediated through capital. Because we exist in relation to capital. We’re all drowning in it. It’s almost impossible to think outside of it. And so Decomposition Theory is some small effort to imagine a space where music is no longer shaped in commodity forms, and a live show doesn’t emphasise the ritual of performance. We are un-songing our songs and un-performing on stage.’

    This is ambitious, utopian thinking from a band at the top of its game.

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  • 65daysofstatic exclusive live performance of No Man’s Sky’s soundtrack

    For their first video game soundtrack project, noisy instrumental band 65daysofstatic certainly picked a blinder. Exploring the uncharted universe of No Man’s Sky needed a suitably sci-fi audio accompaniment and 65daysofstatic rose to the challenge of creating a soundtrack that included procedural elements to match the many and varied choices the player would make in the game.

     

    For the first time, Laced Records, 65daysofstatic and Hello Games are excited to unveil the first live video recording of three tracks from the No Man’s Sky soundtrack. The live video was recorded at 2fly Studios in the band’s native city, Sheffield in the UK, and includes live performances of Red Parallax, Monolith and Asimov.

    Here’s 65daysofstatic’s Paul Wolinski providing a behind the scenes perspective on what went into the live performance session:

    “This was one of the first attempts at rethinking how to approach performing music that was written to be non-linear and lend itself to generative, infinite soundscapes rather than fixed compositions.

    “The first song is ‘live coded’ using open source software TidalCycles,” he explains. “Code is typed, executed and instantly transformed into musical patterns. These are fed out to modular synths and hacked electronic magnets. The magnets rest on guitar strings, making them resonate. Each subsequent song smashes more live instruments back into the mix.”

    Wolinski saw the studio setting as a chance to create a unique performance – and a unique arrangement – that’d be different from the band’s other live shows.

    “We ultimately took different versions of these songs on tour. In the context of a usual 65 show it made more sense than to lock them into more predictable arrangements. However, we are in a studio environment in this video. Everything wired up to play just these specific songs. This provided an opportunity to create a system where every performance of a track would be unique.

    “This is something that takes a bit of getting used to: unique doesn’t necessarily mean good. There is a future we want to explore in writing songs as recipes rather than as pre-packaged TV dinners. With recipes, both the person who wrote it and the person following it play a part in the outcome. Applying this to music feels like a step toward wiping out the ‘composerarchy’. The listener is as vital as the musician in making music matter. Like musical socialism.

    Wolinski pauses mid-flow. “It’s all just noise though, isn’t it? There’s nothing wrong with wanting your music ready-made, so perhaps the TV dinner is a bad analogy,” he continues after a beat. “Maybe broccoli is a better one. Human engineered. A technological product hewn from nature, its origins forgotten. Though raw broccoli is a niche meal.

    “Ultimately, though, this video is more content for the churning internet. More digital froth. We tried to make it interesting. These songs will never be performed this way again.”

    In conjunction with the video Laced Records are offering a 15% sale on the vinyl and CD versions of the soundtrack exclusively via their store:

    US: http://www.lacedrecords.com
    ROW: http://www.lacedrecords.co

    The soundtrack is available on deluxe double CD, 10 track double vinyl and a deluxe vinyl collector’s edition featuring all 16 tracks spread across 4 LPs in a hard-case sleeve.

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  • 65daysofstatic release No Man’s Sky : Music For An Infinite Universe

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    Stream the full album here

    • Released by Laced Records.

    • 4 x heavyweight 180g vinyl.

    • ‘Music for an Infinite Universe’ album across 2 x vinyl.

    • ‘Music for an Infinite Universe: Soundscapes’ second album across 2 x vinyl.

    • Thick, embossed boxset sleeve.

    • Digital download of all audio.

    Available direct from Laced Records from HERE.

    Available direct from 65daysofstatic standalone or as part of ticket bundles, signed or unsigned, from HERE.

    Live :

    7/10/2016 Mon NETHERLANDS TILBURG O13
    18/10/2016 Tue FRANCE DUNKERQUE Les 4 Ecluses
    19/10/2016 Wed FRANCE PARIS Badaboum
    20/10/2016 Thu FRANCE BESANCON La Rodia
    21/10/2016 Fri SWITZERLAND GENEVA Usine (PTR)
    22/10/2016 Sat SWITZERLAND ZURICH Bergmal Festival
    24/10/2016 Mon SPAIN BARCELONA Razzmatazz 2
    25/10/2016 Tue SPAIN MADRID But
    26/10/2016 Wed PORTUGAL PORTO Hard Club
    27/10/2016 Thu PORTUGAL LISBON Musicbox
    28/10/2016 Fri SPAIN MALAGA La Trinchera
    29/10/2016 Sat SPAIN ZARAGOZA Las Armas
    01/11/2016 Tue FRANCE CANNES MJC Picaud
    02/11/2016 Wed ITALY BOLOGNA Locomotiv
    03/11/2016 Thu ITALY ROME Monk
    04/11/2016 Fri ITALY MILAN Magnolia
    05/11/2016 Sat ITALY PADOVA Mame
    06/11/2016 Sun GERMANY MÜNCHEN Kranhalle
    07/11/2016 Mon AUSTRIA VIENNA WUK
    08/11/2016 Tue CZECH REPUBLIC PRAGUE MeetFactory
    09/11/2016 Wed GERMANY BERLIN C-Theatre
    10/11/2016 Thu GERMANY HAMBURG Uebel & Gefährlich
    11/11/2016 Fri NETHERLANDS AMSTERDAM Q-Factory
    12/11/2016 Sat NETHERLANDS MAASTRICHT Muziekgieterij
    13/11/2016 Sun BELGIUM BRUSSELS Botanique
    14/11/2016 Mon UK LONDON Islington Assembly Hall
    15/11/2016 Tue UK BRISTOL Marble Factory
    16/11/2016 Wed UK SHEFFIELD Plug
    17/11/2016 Thu UK NEWCASTLE University
    18/11/2016 Fri UK GLASGOW Art School
    23/11/2016 Wed TAIWAN TAIPEI Legacy
    26/11/2016 Sat HONG KONG HONG KONG Clockenflap Festival at Central Harbourfront
    27/11/2016 Sun SINGAPORE SINGAPORE Neon Lights Festival at Fort Canning Park
    29/11/2016 Tue JAPAN OSAKA Shangrila
    30/11/2016 Wed JAPAN TOKYO Duo

    Tickets and more information can be found here

  • 65daysofstatic announce European tour + new track and album art

    65daysofstatic will return to touring this autumn, marking the release of its August 2016 album release No Man’s Sky : Music For An Infinite Universe.

    17/10/2016 Mon NETHERLANDS TILBURG O13
    18/10/2016 Tue FRANCE DUNKERQUE Les 4 Ecluses
    19/10/2016 Wed FRANCE PARIS Badaboum
    20/10/2016 Thu FRANCE BESANCON La Rodia
    21/10/2016 Fri SWITZERLAND GENEVA Usine (PTR)
    22/10/2016 Sat SWITZERLAND ZURICH Bergmal Festival
    24/10/2016 Mon SPAIN BARCELONA Razzmatazz 2
    25/10/2016 Tue SPAIN MADRID But
    26/10/2016 Wed PORTUGAL PORTO Hard Club
    27/10/2016 Thu PORTUGAL LISBON Musicbox
    28/10/2016Fri SPAIN VIGO MARCO (Museo de Arte Contemporánea)
    29/10/2016 Sat SPAIN ZARAGOZA Las Armas
    01/11/2016 Tue FRANCE CANNES MJC Picaud
    02/11/2016 Wed ITALY BOLOGNA Locomotiv
    03/11/2016 Thu ITALY ROME Monk
    04/11/2016 Fri ITALY MILAN Magnolia
    05/11/2016 Sat ITALY VENICE Spazio Aereo
    06/11/2016 Sun GERMANY MÜNCHEN Kranhalle
    07/11/2016 Mon AUSTRIA VIENNA WUK
    08/11/2016 Tue CZECH REPUBLIC PRAGUE MeetFactory
    09/11/2016 Wed GERMANY BERLIN C-Theatre
    10/11/2016 Thu GERMANY HAMBURG Uebel & Gefährlich
    11/11/2016 Fri NETHERLANDS AMSTERDAM Q-Factory
    12/11/2016 Sat NETHERLANDS MAASTRICHT Muziekgieterij
    13/11/2016 Sun BELGIUM BRUSSELS Botanique
    14/11/2016 Mon UK LONDON Islington Assembly Hall
    15/11/2016 Tue UK BRISTOL Marble Factory
    16/11/2016 Wed UK SHEFFIELD Plug
    17/11/2016 Thu UK NEWCASTLE University
    18/11/2016 Fri UK GLASGOW Art School
    23/11/2016 Wed TAIWAN TAIPEI Legacy
    26/11/2016 Sat HONG KONG HONG KONG Clockenflap Festival at Central Harbourfront
    27/11/2016 Sun SINGAPORE SINGAPORE Neon Lights Festival at Fort Canning Park
    29/11/2016 Tue JAPAN OSAKA Shangrila
    30/11/2016 Wed JAPAN TOKYO Duo

    Tickets and more information can be found here

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  • 65daysofstatic announce No Man’s Sky : Music For An Infinite Universe

    Greetings, Earthlings.

    If somehow, between the glacial rush of yesterday’s news, the creeping decay of the built environment, the lone slog to work on crammed mass transit, the dilatory hit of tabloid filth that crept in past the defences you erected round your best self, the screen’s mad diet, cogent analysis of the crimes of the wealthy, the blood on the hands of the kings, the inhumanity of collective consciousness, the brinkmanship of capitalism and the brink of survival versus funny animal .gifs, you wondered where 65dos had got to, then wonder no more!

    If, above the white noise rainfall of the weeping of our souls, you had time to feel the bittersweet ache of that little 65daysofstatic shaped hole in your life, then trouble not, for here we are to solve none of that, but nevertheless here with you in this, the shortest and newest of epochs, these low, dishonest few decades between peak everything and the new nothing.

    Brothers and sisters, let’s hold hands.

    Here’s what we’ve been up to:

    A couple of years ago we were approached by video-game makers Hello Games to provide some original music for a new game they were developing, then known as ‘project skyscraper’, now known as ‘No Man’s Sky’, a sort of hyper-real, solitary waltz through a parallel universe in search of oblivion or whatever else feels appropriate in the face of the indifference of eternity.

    The game, close to completion and due for release this summer, is also procedural, meaning, for those of you who don’t ‘do’ games, that it generates itself algorithmically rather than manually and therefore is, to all intents and purposes, evil. In other words, it means that the parts of the game one journeys through are theoretically unique, built by the game itself, and you are experiencing them for the first time. And the idea was to create an audio engine that also generated unique instances of music, albeit from a central library of sounds. 65daysofstatic sounds.

    Our sort of gig, right?

    Plus we got to go to Las Vegas and stay in a hotel room with a massive bath. But that’s another story.

    65daysofstatic had been angling for a soundtrack project of some description for a while, but this seemed a little too perfect: classic sci-fi aesthetics married with a scope both cinematic and simultaneously HD but lo-fi, with a nice loose analogy for human loneliness or human agency or human desire in whichever unevenly distributed version of the future you happen to live in.

    Right now, two years later, 65daysofstatic are working really hard with Hello Games’ best scientists and magicians to finish feeding enough raw music into the gaping mouth of the insane A.I. composer-in-the-machine to satisfy the tabula rasa that will conduct this vast symphony of noise, in time for the game’s release in June of this year.

    And the fruits of this labour, we’ve made into an album.

    And so:

    ‘No Man’s Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe’

    The next 65daysofstatic record, and the official soundtrack to the game. Just short of two hours of new music.

    Recorded at Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire by Dave Sanderson and Adam Sennitt, produced by 65daysofstatic and Dave Sanderson, and mixed at Castle of Doom, Glasgow by Tony Doogan in early 2015, with additional recording / red-light mixing by 65daysofstatic. Mastered at Abbey Road by Frank Arkwright. No Man’s Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe will be released on June 17th by Laced Records.

    Available for pre-order now, HERE

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  • 65daysofstatic : Supermoon

  • 65daysofstatic announces soundtrack for ‘No Man’s Sky’

     

    “We’re happy to bring news that we’ll be writing the soundtrack for the galaxy-spanning phenomenon ‘No Man’s Sky’, a procedural, open-universe space exploration video game.
    We’re in Las Vegas right now and played a new song, ‘Supermoon’ live at the The Game Awards, alongside new visuals which were created by Mr. Div, inspired by No Man’s Sky. We imagine this will be viewable online before too long. We’ve also been working with sound designer Paul Weir to help create further procedural sound for the recesses of No Man’s Sky’s lonely galaxy.
    Obviously we’re insanely excited, so excited, overly excited to be involved.”

    Further information on No Man’s Sky is here