DTH – Young Heart Sounds (Chinquapin Records, 2011)

Each track, title, and sample in this album is very personal to me. Many of the clips are of my friends, family, or places/events I’ve been. I conducted these pieces primarily as a way to sort of immortalize a certain time of my life – all the people, places, and feelings that came with it.
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Dth - Songs To Sleep Next To (self release, 2010)

01 Pruny Hands Felt Health 06:03
02 You Are In The Grass 04:06
03 Honesty Is God (with Chris Rehm) 03:56
04 Sleeping's Just Like Lust 01:35
05 Your Eyes Are Like Wells 03:06
06 Your Heart's Like A Baby's Face 05:16
07 Staring Games 05:05

Devin Hildebrand, who plays under the moniker Dth, just released a new album.

Just some haiku, to accompany tracks :

Pruny hands felt health.
And now I've got the river
All over myself.

It's not I miss you,
It's scared love that you're still here.
You are in the grass.

I wish we'd just lay
Out our insides as we meet.
Honesty is God.

Sleeping's just like lust
When you forget touch and just
Keep thinking enough.

Your eyes are like wells
Swaying my hanging torso
As they shrink and swell.

I'm so impatient.
Your heart's like a baby's face
I can't understand.

Also, please note that most of these tracks contain key parts represented by extremely low and/or extremely high frequencies. Thus, this album may not be fully heard on some speakers or if one has some hearing loss.

Tracks #1 and #2 for RTG.

Track #3 is a collaboration with Chris Rehm (visit).

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Dth - I Hope I Can Feel Something Like That One Day (self release, 2010)

Reçu un mail de Devin qui vient d'auto produire son premier album sous le pseudonyme de Dth / Received a mail from Devin, who just self release his first album as Dth...

This album is held together mainly by the little noises of everything: found sounds, field recordings, samples of everyday speech and old VHS's. On top of this are some guitar lines and progressions, and some additional percussion and ambient vocals. The overall mood it strives for is empathetic and nostalgic, though frantic at some times.
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Dth is a kid doing college down in New Orleans who asked a whole bunch of people how they were feeling and then cut it up into samples of their recorded voices, dividing it up into a 16-point scale (weird, right?) based on how they were feeling.

The results amount to a glitchy mashup of sampled talking, with some smooth guitar and synth instrumentals and a whole army of digital clicks and corresponding clacks. And some jazz drum, at one point. Many of these tracks sound a lot like the premeditated "aleatoric" music of The Books, but with a perfomative fourth wall cracked away at between the recorder and the field-recorded. Here's how he explains the project:

I set up two mics in an alcove outside my school's dorms (then had to move to inside the commons building because of rain) and stopped numerous people, hit record, and asked them, "How are you feeling today, on a scale 1-10?" After receiving a good amount of responses, some short and some long and elaborate, I quickly cropped out some abrasive noises and pops in the recordings around the responses they gave me (resulting in some gaps between answers). Then I had a series of conversational clips, each containing at least 1 number.

I devised a way to scale these numbers to notes - a simple version of a major scale, but intervals of every other note (for instance 7 = C, 8 = E, not D.) This way, I could also account for the times I got responses of a half number, like 8.5. I played the corresponding notes whenever a number was spoken in my clips, and sustained it somewhat until the next number was spoken. When the same number was spoken consecutively (as in two people in a row said 7), I would play the octave of that note.

People's moods making music together.
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