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The Helmholtz Resonators & Proving House Digital announce Sonic eBook and single ‘Wooden Man’!
The Helmholtz Resonators have returned from their adventures beyond the veil of time and space in with a brand new single Wooden Man. Of course, no adventure with these time travelling audio scientists is complete without a brand new piece of technology, cobbled together from the odds and sods found on their adventures, so they’re also very proud to unveil the Sonic eBook as well as an instructional video that shows you how to use their time machine, the Console 5001, without getting lost the folds of reality.
Wooden Man is a musical interpretation of an experiment gone wrong, as Chladni Plates is transported to a sinister parallel dimension stripped of colour, while grooving bass lines permeate the very air around him, and space age synths add to the atmosphere of dance floor menace. The scientist may very well have become lost in a landscape packed with beats reminiscent of The Beta Band and Super Furry Animals, and visuals ripped from the depths of a Halloween nightmare.
You can stream Wooden Man via the ABoF SoundCloud page.
You can also check out the single's trailer to see the Sonic eBook in action via Proving House Digital's YouTube channel.
The Sonic eBook was conceptualised and built by Proving House Digital. An all in one package in ePub form, it is fully interactive utilising music, video and animation in a fixed layout form with touch/button functionality that can also utilise active links for ticket, merchandise and mp3 purchasing. In short, it’s a website or portfolio that you can pop on an iStick, stick in your pocket and it will work whether you’re in the middle of a field, a wifi hotspot, or lost in the space time continuum.
The Helmholtz Resonators are a renegade group of psychedelic time travelling audio scientists who have been playing and writing music together since the turn of the century. They studied acoustic science and the work of Hermann Von Helmholtz, being particularly inspired by his book On the Wires of our Nerves, essential reading for anyone interested in the science of sound and sound synthesis. Heavily inspired by the ethos behind concept albums, the band have created a repertoire of songs that are as eccentric as their image, touching on influences as diverse as The Residents and The Kinks to LCD Soundsystem and Hieronymous Bosch.
The Helmholtz Resonators’ single Wooden Man will be released via Proving House Digital on 23rd October 2015 on iTunes as an MP3 and a free Sonic eBook. The original track is taken from their album The Mystery Of Woolley Mountain which is out now digitally.