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DVE2054 wrote: Thu Feb 26, 2026 11:34 am just had to come here to say this: at 3.33 in 'the Exhibition Hall' suddenly the music cuts out and there's a 6-second long sinusoidal beep that can scare the shit out of anyone chilling out to this. I think it's purposeful and quite cruel TBH, a sick joke. I just opened my copy in Audacity and removed that.
Haha, remember doing something similar with The Hafler Trio's Intoutof - super slow drones over an hour but with an intense drilling noise section for about 5 minutes, half way through it - making it dang hard to nap to !

I'm OK with the 'bleep' in this track - an overarching theme in FSOLs stuff has always been about transmissions and this bit, in my minds eye (ear?) comes across like either briefly losing a broadcast signal, something being redacted, or switching over to another channel
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Yup that what comes to your mind after the heart attack.
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BTW when listening more carefully, strange(r) thins are to be found. For example, 'The Exhibition Hall' and 'Subconscious Mind Communicates are practically the same sound installation, except with variations. Just look at the spectrograms, above is a channel from 'exhibition', below from 'subconscious' (backup clickable link: https://imgur.com/a/LDWueH0 ).


There are huge differences in that there is a handful of sample groups that only appear in either of these files (but not in both) but just by a glance you can see they come from the same base. It's actually quite doable, amusing and funny to import them both to Audacity, pan one left and the other right, and have a ride. I'd gladly publish that as 'the subconscious exhibition hall communicates'...

It doesn't take from these installations for me, I still dig them, but you know, writing a minute-by-minute description, I had to discover that. I just noticed that around 23min (in 'Exhibition...') and 22min (in "Subconcsious...") there's a verbatim copy-pasted passage with steps, seaguls and laughter and that gave it away. I'm not criticizing that even, I'd probably end up doing the same having to put together a 30-minute long sound collage. Logically, there exists some basis on which you improvise other sounds. So, to be clear, I'm just showing off my Sherlock Holmes skills here, not deriding anybody.

I keep examining the stuff further... (I use it as my work music so, obviously, such 'discoveries' aren't but a fruit of procrastination, still I thought I'd share).

By the way, 'sound installation' seems to be a far better description that 'ambient tracks' at least for the two pieces above, surely. More on that later in a bigger "review"...
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Ah that’s fascinating! For the record, imgur isn’t available in the UK these days.

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Yeah, it looks like Subscious Mind is basically a very fleshed out version of Exhibition Hall. Which isn't that surprising - to the best of my knowledge, the material wasn't planned for release until around the time of Cloudforms.
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Allright, took me on a small tangent to read why is Imgur blocked. Had no idea. Here's a reupload from the imagebay:
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Spectral just reveals the similarity a bit earlier than the waveform.

I think it's a great insight into Brian's writing process (or improvisation process, call it what we like).

I'm still working on a dual-track version (exhibition panned left, conscious panned right) 'cause the issue is they seem to run at a very, very slightly different speeds, would have to compress one of them.
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