What is 'Lowercase Music'?

Today, let’s explore the depths of audio with "Lowercase Music" and what makes this hyper-ambient world of minimalist sound so fascinating.

STEVE RODEN - FORMS OF PAPER (Remastered)

A huge thank you to Sari Roden for sending me over Steve's webpage article on Lowercase music! Here is a link to that article as well for anyone who is interested:

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MIC - Blue Snowball iCE Condenser Microphone

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A huge shout to Night Light Tapes for letting me use their music in the background of this video! This video features the album "Narvon Nights" by GlenOAX. Listen to it here!:

much love as always,
ur boi,
Pad Chennington

#Lowercase #FormsOfPaper #Music

[PadChennington]

what genres/albums/artists do you want me to explore for my next video?

[pchumsky]

I appreciate these explorations of experimental music

[JJW]

9:30 Art that invokes such a strong negative reaction in someone will inevitably invoke an equally strong positive reaction in someone else. If lowercase was truly crap then it would ignored totally.

[sharewareeater]

Liking the weirder, nicher subject matters you've been tackling on your vids lately, wouldn't mind seeing a video on glitch music a la Oval, Fennesz, Ryoji Ikeda etc. You seem like you'd be into that stuff.

[cvorwell]

Pad, I think you have officially become the spiritual successor of the channel 'This Exists' (RIP), I love it!

[petercheney]

Just yesterday, I started actively listening to my tinnitus instead of trying to ignore, or shut it out.

This seems like a serendipitous find for me.

[robertshaw]

Yet another genre I gotta check out. Pads got the hookup

[fallowfieldoutwest]

this has to be one of the most niche, original and interesting channels on yt.

[christophermccracken]

pad, you seem like the kind of guy who would absolutely love this band called natural snow buildings. they're this french duo who create these massive, ritualistic, apocalyptic drones out of an insane variety of folk/electronic instrumentation. i'd love to see a video on that niche!

[CountofVatesgrad]

My boy Steve Roden finally getting some love!

[Ambalek]

This quote was amazing, and articulated something I’ve been feeling lately but didn’t have the words for: “Scratching through the surface level and committing with actual effort can end up providing oneself with excitement and unfathomable discovery”.

[WerewolfCat]

i love lowercase!! i always play it when i go to sleep or read music, it's great for getting into a focused headspace :^)

[maxmatson]

Interesting one to try would be "apocalyptic folk" bands like "current 93" or "Death in June"

[unicorntongues]

REALLY didnt care for any of merzbows work, but I just got done listening to forms of paper and adored it, actually. Thanks, Pad!

[ForgottenDawn]

It's great to have more introductory videos on experimental microgenres like "lowercase", given how it's so niche and linked to just a single artist like Roden for the most part. Love your videos, man, thanks for making me discover signalwave, too.

[reesek]

so happy to see you venturing into these new genres pad! I love me some vaporwave but I think a lot of us have a very diverse taste of more obscure genres, and its great to get some media on them!

[wrightblan]

“Forms of Paper” was the super-power of the long-lost sibling of the Wonder Twins.

[pnaktic]

Aube (Akifumi Nakajima) is a japanese noise artist that sits pretty snugly between the Noise scene and ambient / sampling scene of Richard Chartier. If you can get your hands on "Flare" (or one of many of his other albums), it's quite worth it. Most of his albums are built around samples from a single source (be it a lightbulb, water droplets, pages of a book, a single VCO, etc)

[horrorhabit]

I listened to Forms of Paper. I was impressed. I like how, in the beginning, the artist has you listen to (almost) total silence for about a minute. I thing it's to re-sensitize the listener to small sounds.

[The_Significant_Insignificant]

Steve Roden's Breathe, and this video completely changed my creative direction, thank you. I love Lowercase and hope to continue to contribute to its wonderful library of compositions.