music composed entirely of live sex sounds

jessicavale · Joined: Oct 08, 2004 Posts: 31 Location: NEW YORK CITY

I just finished mixing on my debut album...which is dark, lush synth...but with no traditional instruments. We recorded live sex (thanks to many wonderful participants) and processed it into music. It ranges from new wave to ambient sound scape, with my vocals over the music bed.
I just wanted to intoduce myself and give you all the url where you can listen to samples.
www.thesexalbum.com

thanks.
Jessica Vale

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 2:15 pm Post subject:

....cool.. so this is like hardcore oldfashioned musique concrete?

jessicavale · Joined: Oct 08, 2004 Posts: 31 Location: NEW YORK CITY

I have a hard time comparing it to anything, to be honest.

mosc · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 2:33 pm Post subject:

Welcome to electro-music.com, Jessica - very glad to have you here.
This is wild stuff. Like you say, dark.

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 2:34 pm Post subject:

Good stuff. I just listened to "microphone"

jessicavale · Joined: Oct 08, 2004 Posts: 31 Location: NEW YORK CITY

we just finished mixing, i am set to master in 2 weeks.
That's why there are just small samples, for the time being.
But i am glas you like it.
It's been a long road.

paul e. · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:53 pm Post subject:

i imagine mic placement must have proved to be a very engaging process

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 7:04 pm Post subject:

I imagine the opposite really. Some artists here did a live sex show with a DJ remixing cavity sounds in real time. The whole performance pretty much folded early on. Nothing really worked and the sex was supposedly not that fun either.

jessicavale · Joined: Oct 08, 2004 Posts: 31 Location: NEW YORK CITY

of course...certainly a most interesting learning experience, in more ways than 1. the mics were on, under, near and even IN whatever we thouhgt would make a good "instrument."

paul e. · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 7:19 pm Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 7:23 pm Post subject:

jessicavale · Joined: Oct 08, 2004 Posts: 31 Location: NEW YORK CITY

what specifically was so awful about it? Were the cavity sounds even interesting, or was it just a failed experiment?

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject:

The DJ probably killed it all first, then the gear started failing. I guess it must have looked better on the drawing board.

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 7:40 pm Post subject:

The music was far from interesting and the DJ was panicking and trying to loop whatever and putting a beat to it.. and the music performance pretty much fell apart early on.

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 7:47 pm Post subject:

I guess it was pretty much the Battle of Britain from the german perspective.

seraph · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 12:42 am Post subject:

I foresee this one will be a long and entertaining thread Wink

seraph · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:05 am Post subject:

jessica you should add an avatar to your posts. I am sure you could come up with something interesting Wink

elektro80 · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:10 am Post subject:

jessicavale · Joined: Oct 08, 2004 Posts: 31 Location: NEW YORK CITY

jessicavale · Joined: Oct 08, 2004 Posts: 31 Location: NEW YORK CITY

mosc · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:39 am Post subject:

I recently got some of those microphones you put in your ears. I haven't done too much with them yet, but some simple tests have proven to be astonishing, especially when played back through headphones. It's like really being there. These might be useful in this kind of recording session.

jkn · Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 469 Location: La Porte, IN, USA

Wow - I go away to Las Vegas for a week and come back to this... Smile

Jessica - welcome to the forum, I'll save looking at your album/listening for when I'm not at work.

seraph · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:01 pm Post subject:

jessicavale · Joined: Oct 08, 2004 Posts: 31 Location: NEW YORK CITY

paul e. · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:12 am Post subject:

just listened

interesting textures...very moody ... darkly provacative

thiing is..the mixes..are they final mixes Question