CORY STRAND "HNW '77" 3CDr (AOW 243)

A couple people expressed interest in hearing me rework the art piece "Tuning '77," an hour and a half megacut of the Grateful Dead doing nothing but tuning their instruments during their 1977 tour.  The original piece has a beautiful sort of atonal ambience to it, an epic slab of pointless drift that goes nowhere and takes a significant amount of time getting there.  For this rework, I chopped the original "Tuning '77" into three distinct sections and manipulated each in a slightly different way; the resultant 3CD set is a crushing journey into the outer reaches of beauty and narcissism.  If you enjoy my melodic, psychedelic HNW work, then this one is tailor-made for you.  There's some really lovely violence here.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $20 ppd. in the United States, $33 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "THE SHINING: ANCILLARIES, VOL. XI" DVD-R (AOW 241)

Absolutely epic rework/manipulation of the entire audio track of the film "The Shining."  A crushing 2.5 hour piece of dense, melodic, scathingly psychedelic HNW full of minute changes in tone and texture.  This is easily one of my best works as of late, a journey deep into the heart of Kubrick's film, unbroken and completely excessive.  Not for the faint of heart.  The length of this piece necessitated it being on a DVD-R; please note you will need to play this one via a computer.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $20 ppd. in the United States, $33 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "THE SHINING: ANCILLARIES, VOL. X" 5CDr (AOW 240)

Massive new set of HNW excursions into Wendy Carlos' masterful soundtrack for "The Shining."  For this set, I took my own reworks of the track "Rocky Mountains" and re-manipulated them, transforming the deep death ambient of the originals into thick, dense blasts of HNW uberdrone.  Stagnant and unrelenting, these five pieces reflect the violence inherent in the film, a call from the void pockets of the Overlook's forgotten past.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $30 ppd. in the United States, $43 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "VIDEODROME: A REINTERPRETATION" CDr + DVDr (AOW 239)

Immersive and mostly punishing rework of the soundtrack to David Cronenberg's technology and violence-fetishizing mindfuck Videodrome.  Howard Shore's score for this one may be quite short, but it remains wholly and creepily effective (it's easily one of my favorite scores from him); in working with the music I've tried to maintain both the claustrophobic and paranoid sense of dread and the explosive and skin-shredding aura of sexualized violence.  The soundtrack rework (disc one, the CDr) comes in two parts: a thick ambient/drone version and a nullifying HNW assault.  The second disc (the DVDr) is the full audio of the film, manipulated into a scathing and terrifying HNW nightmare.  Like the white noise of a VHS cassette ripping into your brain endlessly.  Long live the new flesh.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $20 ppd. in the United States, $33 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "REBECCA: A REASSEMBLY" 2CDr (AOW 238)

A companion album to my rework of Rebecca's score proper, a scathing double HNW assault constructed from various elements of Franz Waxman's elegiac score.  It just seemed wrong somehow to be reworking the score to a Hitchcock film and not creating any HNW out of it!
The two pieces here explore some of my different HNW guises: the first disc is the incredibly melodic, ripping psychedelic HNW that i'm most associated with and the second disc is some deep, darker sludgy HNW that approaches ANW type-textures.  Two epic compositions that embrace sensuality and violence.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $15 ppd. in the United States, $28 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "REBECCA: A REINTERPRETATION" 5CDr (AOW 237)

Taking a class on Hitchcock this semester has allowed me to revisit some of my favorites in his filmography and reacquaint myself with aspects of those works I had overlooked.  In the case of 1940's Rebecca (one of my very favorite Hitch films, alongside Notorious and Rear Window), that overlooked aspect was Franz Waxman's truly lovely, melancholy, and haunting score.  Hearing it again and meshing it to the film's imagery was incredibly inspiring.
My rework of the score is entirely drone and ambient, at times falling into the Tim Hecker-type blurgaze soundpool, creating grand, sensual pieces of intense emotional resonance; other pieces find the sounds given over more fully to death ambience and grey ambience, massive unbroken flows of expansive and engulfing tone.  The whole record has a ghostly feel that I think perfectly captures Rebecca's aura of eroticism, sensuality, sorrow, and sexual menace.  One of my best recent outings, truly.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $30 ppd. in the United States, $43 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "UNTITLED PIECES, VOL. III" 2CDr (AOW 236)

Third volume in my series of untitled/themeless sound recordings.  This one is a double album, with one disc given over to ambient drone manipulation and the second to full-on HNW speaker shredding.  Both pieces are crafted from the same source material.  The drone work here is quite lovely, evoking a feeling of emptiness and tedium but still suffused with vague melodies and a feeling of yearning.  The HNW piece is just straight up, unbridled, dense/crackly noise.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $15 ppd. in the United States, $28 rest of world.

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