I’ve been doing a bit of research in to “lowercase music” from a bit of cursory research it is basically taking a much more reserved approach to creating music, sometimes done by heavily amplifying usually unheard sounds, the main piece that many people attribute the start of it all (except the creator himself interestingly) is called Forms of Paper by Steve Roden, it’s the sounds of fingers brushing on paper heavily manipulated by a sampler. There’s also an artist who does it called Sachiko m who uses really high pitch sine waves derived from built in test tones from her sampler. She also did the above collaboration with the creator in no input mixing Toshimaru Nakamura, this piece is really interesting to me, it seems so far away from what I do when I no-input mix, the subtlety is astounding and also strangely hypnotising.
I attempted to do something similar just with no-input mixing, though I feel that with a few other inputs (contact mic and field recordings) you could get a much higher level of depth, I did some post processing on this one, something I dont usually do with no-input, I took off the low end almost entirely and put it through a compressor and stereo widener, I’m quite happy with how it turned out, though I feel it cou7ld still be even more subtle, I definitely need to develop a bit more patience. It’s definitely nice to be using no-input in different ways though, its really proving to me the versatility of the technique.