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A Great and Endless Monolith

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1.
This is the most Bull of Heaven-like, especially in name. Well-constructed. Has 4 different samples: 1. a video that I found thanks to /r/creepy (also where the name of track 6 comes from), 2. "Not I" by Samuel Beckett, the 40th anniversary performance from 2015 (the YouTube video of which apparently no longer exists and my MP3 copy of which apparently got "taped over"), 3. a guitar melody which originates from the last part of "Noiseful Annie" from my "That Weird Part of Bandcamp" album, and 4. track 2.
2.
[[zie]] 04:18
The sample used here was previously used in "Zie Halogenic Mélangerie", which is why it is called so. It is also used in track 1. It's easy to imitate Bull of Heaven, but it's especially easy to make your own pulse album. The excerpt is a tenth of the full track because the full track is just the excerpt repeated nine more times, so if you listen to the excerpt ten times, then you've got the full track. You could thereby say that the full track is in 10 parts that all have the same length, and you would be right.
3.
You've probably heard of Webdriver Torso by now. You're probably aware of what Webdriver Torso is by now. But if you don't, it's a YouTube channel that uploads videos that are all pretty much the same. And it never stops uploading. Certainly caused the YouTubes to want to know more about this "mysterious" channel. It plays tones accompanied by images or "slides" of red and blue rectangles. But enough of that. Has anyone ever played three videos at the same time to create chords? The tones echo, resonate and reverberate, distort and wobble. It's beautiful. Untapped potential in the beauty of music that maybe only I have thought of. This is just the excerpt. The whole track is 25 minutes long.
4.
[[art?]] 04:38
This is very similar to track 2 in that it also uses a sample that was previously used in "Zie Halogenic Mélangerie", but they are not the same sample although. But this sample will be used again in the next track. UVB-76 The Buzzer was kind of the world's first and oldest pulse album anyway, also the world's longest and maybe even the world's worst. I discovered this awesome beat while fast-forwarding Zie Halogenic Mélangerie to help me find the sample that is now used in track 2. To quote the info from track 2: it's easy to imitate Bull of Heaven, but it's especially easy to make your own pulse album. The excerpt is a tenth of the full track because the full track is just the excerpt repeated nine more times, so if you listen to the excerpt ten times, then you've got the full track. You could thereby say that the full track is in 10 parts that all have the same length, and you would be right.
5.
Uses the same sample that track 4 used while a slowed down track 4 is playing along with it. The name comes from chapter 4 of Sarah Vowell's "The Partly Cloudy Patriot". When They Might Be Giants was creating music for the audiobook version, most of the songs were named after the book's chapters and most of the chapters got a song named after it. But this wasn't one of them. This is just the first four minutes. It was originally intended to be 666.66 hours long because that's about a month and I was surprised that Bull of Heaven hasn't yet done a piece that's about a month long since they've done pieces that are exactly an hour long, a day long, and a week long, and 12 pieces that would've been longer than this. But then I decided I could just make it 666.66 minutes long instead so that I would only have about half an hour left until it's done. Kind of unfortunate considering there's gonna be like no way to make an ending that doesn't feel like a cop-out, that doesn't feel like I had an idea that could've made the piece hours longer. But I'm glad to finally get this project done a couple months before it would've been a year old. And this over-11-hour-long song was based on a 2-and-a-half-minute-long YouTube video. Yay? There is going to be like so much looping, probably as with most of BoH's really long songs. But by that I don't mean that I'm going to make it just one big loop and then put it in a bigger loop and then pitch it down a lot because that would be a dick move.
6.
This is the excerpt of a "remix" of "274: Their Cow Calveth, and Casteth Not Her Calf" by Bull of Heaven. I basically made it more humanly listenable and enjoyable by amplifying the silences in it and putting them in the background. It was originally almost 5 and a half hours of reverberated percussive clicks sandwiched in between periods of quiet noise. The name comes from a video from the subreddit r/creepy which was where I found one of the samples used in track 1.

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This is a collection of pieces I made that are in the style of the infamous band Bull of Heaven. Even the name of the album is in the style of how Bull of Heaven names their songs: excerpts from books. The name of the album originated from the book The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.

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released July 22, 2015

Invisible Hippo (Derrick McMillon) - noiseology
Google Images c/o Salvador Dalí - provider of image

Vanity That Indie Records
VTI 002

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Derrick McMillon Joliet, Illinois

The background image is "Wheat Ear" by Salvador Dalí, 1932. The order of the releases are neither chronological nor alphabetical, but rather relative best to relative worst.

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