The Hum in the Room

"The Hum in the Room" the final part of the three-part mix dedicated to ... the hum in your room!  The buzz that you suddenly notice, that appears to have been there forever but unnoticed - until this moment. The sound that will be there forever from now. The hum that appears to come from the inside of your head, and that keeps changing when you turn your head or walk through the room. The noise that can irritate as well as fascinate. Or, to quote John Cage from a 1937 lecture: "Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating. The sound of a truck at 50 m.p.h. Static between the stations. Rain. We want to capture and control these sounds, to use them, not as sound effects, but as musical instruments. " --- originally published on Ambientblog --- PLAYLIST: Ryoji Ikeda - Matrix (for Rooms) Matrix , 2001, Touch TO:44 Ryoji Ikeda - 1011111111 Matrix , 2001, Touch TO:44Akira Rabelais - Notturno (2) Eisotrophobia, 2001, RitornellBrannan Lane - Zone One Hypnotic Drift, 2003, Sampler CDDisinformation - National Grid New Forms, Contemporary Electronic Music in the Context of Art, 2000, Galerie Fuer Zeitgenoessische Kunst LeipzigRobert Henke - Signal to Noise 1 Signal to noise, 2004, Kompakt ICM 05Alp - Fax Machine – Toilet Plumbing At home with Alp, 1999, Soleilmoon 01863Tamia / Pierre Favre - Solitude Solitudes, 1992, ECM 1442Brannan Lane - Mesosphere (part 1) Troposphere, soundtrack for your head, 2000, World Circle Records, WCD804CDOöphoi - Cydron The dreaming of Shells, 2003, Mystery SeaAlbrecht Kunze - Motion Control Maschinelle Strategeme, 2000, Ritornell, RIT010Biosphere - Modifié Autour de La Lune, 2004, Touch TO:62Edgar Varese - Poem Electronique Ohm, the Electric Gurus of Electronic Music 2000, Ellipsis CD3270Joyi Yuasa - Projection Esemplastic for White Noise Ohm, the Electric Gurus of Electronic Music 2000, Ellipsis CD3270Alp - Disk Drive Kettle Washing Machine At home with Alp, 1999, Soleilmoon 01863Matthew Florianz - Erik + Matthew -1 unreleasedMichel Redolfi - Desert Tracks – Mojave Desert Desert tracks, 1988, Ina GRM, INA_C 1005E-Hum 1 - private collectionArvo Pärt - Solfeggio De Profundis, 1997, Harmonia Mundi, HMU 907182David Shea - Elegy The Tower of Mirrors, 1996 Sub Rosa SR94Food Mixer - private collectionAlan Howarth - Sailing Ships Creaks Real Hollywood Sound Effects, 1997, Gnp crescendo 8054Thomas Köner - Tu, Sempre Zyklop, 2003, Mille Plateaux MP118Thomas Köner - Les Soeurs Lumiere Unerforschtes Gebiet, 2003, Die Stadt, DS56Alan Howarth - Ships Interior  Real Hollywood Sound Effects, 1997, Gnp crescendo 8054Thomas Köner - Nuuk (Night) Nuuk, 1997-2004 Mille Plateaux Media MPM 03Sidsel Endresen & Bugge Wesseltoft - Voices Out Here in there, 2002 Jazzland 017 368-2 Cas de Marez - Sens (fragment) PEMCD, unreleasedMatthew Florianz - Elementen unreleased, 2003Biosphere - Thermal Motion Shenzhou, 2002, Touch TO:55Pauline Oliveros, Panaiotis, Dempster - Ione Deep Listening, 1989, New Albion, NA 022Tetsu Inoue - Magnetic Field Ambiant Otaku, 1994, Fax, PS08/43David Kwan - +/- IV Storm of Drones, 1996, Asphodel 966Tibor Szemzo - Tractatus Tractatus, 1991 – 1995, 1995, LeoRecords LR 227Moljebka Pvlse - Jiken Evolved as One, a collection of Emotional Ambient-Drones, 2003, Evolved as One, EVOL 01Sleep Research Facility - Back to the Egg Dead Weather Machine – re:Heat, 2004, manifold MANCD043Kettel - Electrician and Adventurer Volleyed Iron, 2004, U Cover, 018Thomas Gerwin - Air Wattenmeer Suite, 1996, IAP 011Quiet American - Night web download