Sir Edgar Carpenter
siredgarcarpenter (previously typified as Sir Edgar Carpenter) is a experimental musician from Mexico City, born in 1994 and working since 2008.
He picked up his moniker due to his love to British musical culture, while he took the surname Carpenter as a mock to the British band, The Carpenters, and because he "just liked how it sounded". Initially influenced by The Beatles's "Revolution 9", he became relatively known in the internet for his continuous noise and experimental releases. His most known works are a series of albums dedicated to animated TV shows (denominated Killing Cartoon Society's Saga) that were released between 2010 and 2018. He owned a net-label called Scriptsound Recordings from 2010 to 2019, for which he organized compilation albums with many artists and musicians around the globe.
His music style has changed over the course of the years, but it's mostly based on transformation of sounds and creating bizarre sound-collages with a "noisy appeal". He puts special emphasis on reverberated sound and a "symphonic-wannabe" structure, frequently trying to avoid monotonous or static noises. Although his primary source of editing and producing music is via laptop (using audio unit effects, samplers, tone generators, granular synthesis, turntable softwares, MIDI sequencers and synthesizers), he has used analogue sounds as basic source material for his noise, such as field-recordings, found objects, handmade instruments, and more prominently, his own voice through multiple effects (a technique he likes to call "Vocal Synthesizers"), as well as real drums and other instruments.
He has cited Merzbow, Masonna, Achim Wollscheid, Rudolf Eb.er, Michael Cretu, Vangelis, Frank Zappa, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Yoko Ono and George Harrison's "Electronic Sound" as his strongest influences. He rarely performs live, preferring studio work and collaborative sessions, although in 2011, he performed for an almost-private minitour as a trio consisting on fellow collaborators Sidd Anders and Adolph DicksAppointed (R.I.P.). Between 2012 and 2018, he had a non-noise/experimental side project called My Wrong Note, dedicated to more conventional and commercial "instrumental art-pop-rock" music recorded using MIDI programming, since 2020 he started released music on this style under his main moniker, effectively dropping out the My Wrong Note name.
He has served as music consultant for high-school plays and performances, often selecting and editing songs or performing original ones. He has been drummer and percussionist for some bands, as well as ocasional disc-jockey.
Discography:
2010
- Rage (noise/lo-fi)
- Sir & Lord (collaboration with LordByronIsMyLord)(released also as CDr) (noise/experimental)
- Broflovski's Killers: A Noise Tribute To South Park (K.C.S. Volume 1) (noise)
- Appeared on "Noise Varieties" compilation by FFM Records
- Kyrie Eleison: October 6th, 2010 (originally released as He's Sixteen, He's Alive & He's Live!) (noise/lo-fi)
- Glass (noise/experimental)
- Split [EP] (with Dust Cult & Redfilled) (noise)
- Broken Universes [EP] (noise/lo-fi)
2011
- Lights And Shadows (noise/lo-fi)
- Perverted Music (originally released as Tickle Is Not Pervertion) (harsh-noise)
- Imagine Me: A Noise Tribute To Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (K.C.S. Volume 2) (noise/drone)
- Broflovski's Killers Reworked & Remixed (Remix compilation album by other artists) (noise)
- Make Mac Bleed: Live 2011 (5 discs digital boxset) (noise/experimental/free-improvisation)
- 3 Avantgarde Pieces Of Piano & Musique Concrete (experimental/avantgarde/musique concrete)
- Syringe (as Syringe's project) (wall-noise)
- Falso (experimental/noise/leftfield)
- Absolutamente Nada Normal (Limited release, now dissapeared) (experimental/noise)
2012
- Black Dawn At The Northern Lands (noise)
- Criminal World (collaboration with Byron Muñoz) (dark-ambient/noise)
- Some Screams In The Darkness (noise)
- Appeared on "Sounds Of The Underworld" compilation by Scriptsound Recordings
- Stranger (experimental/noise/leftfield)
- Looptronica: A Noise Tribute To Jacob Two-Two (K.C.S. Volume 3) (experimental/noise/leftfield)
- My Wrong Note (originally released as For Love To Music) (instrumental/synthpop/pop-rock)
- Sessions 2008 (3 discs digital boxset) (free-improvisation/ambient)
- The Lost Symphonies (3 discs digital boxset) (noise/field recording)
- Othersides/Transformations (free-improvisation/noise/field recording)
2013
- The Looptronica Sessions (experimental/noise/leftfield)
- In Heaven Or Hell It's Evil (experimental/noise/musique concrete)
2014
- Destructive (experimental/noise/leftfield)
- Walking Over Water (experimental/noise/leftfield)
- Human Enemy: A Noise Tribute To Robotboy (K.C.S. Volume 4) (experimental/noise/leftfield)
- Uneasy Heavy Music [EP] (experimental/noise)
2015
- Noiseorchestra (experimental/wall-noise/classical)
- The Complete Human Enemy (experimental/noise/leftfield)
- Roots Of Hell (collaboration with Metek) (experimental/wall-noise)
- ReWorks (covers album) (instrumental/pop-rock)
2016
- Modulation Genesis (experimental/noise/leftfield/musique concrete)
- Appeared on "Behemoth" compilation by Hortus Conclusus Records & Petroglyph Music Netlabel
- Appeared on "Environments" compilation by Scriptsound Recordings
- Appeared on "Netlabel's Day 2016" compilation by Sonido Cuántico Records
- The Freak In The Scene (instrumental/pop-rock/electro-rock)
- Appeared on The Brighest/Darkest Moods Project compilation by Scriptsound Recordings
- Separabuntur (experimental/harsh-noise)
2017
- Appeared as Sir Edgar Carpenter and as My Wrong Note on Netlabel's Day 2017 compilation, "No Ha Sido En Vano" by Sonido Cuántico Records
- Deep Into The Northwest Forest: A Noise Tribute To Gravity Falls (K.C.S. Volume 5) (experimental/leftfield)
- The Mabel's Side (Deep Into The Northwest Forest_ Single Disc Edition Volume 1) (experimental/leftfield)
2018
- Reptilian Abnormalities (collaboration with RAUPPWAR) (harsh-noise)
- Cosmic City (collaboration with RAUPPWAR) (harsh-noise/ambient)
- Appeared on "Dark Circus - Remixes" remix album by RAUPPWAR
- The Dipper's Side (Deep Into The Northwest Forest_ Single Disc Edition Volume 2) (Limited release, disappeared) (experimental/noise/leftfield)
- Reconstructing The Woods (Remix compilation album by other artists) (experimental/noise/leftfield)
2020
- The Synthesized Man (instrumental/synth-rock)
Contact:
http://siredgarcarpenter.bandcamp.com
