Offret
Genre: Experimental Music
Sub-Genres: Experimental Ambient, Dark Ambient, Neoclassical, Glitch
Instrumental
Offret is a solo ambient project from Kit Carruthers. It is a surreal, frightening, bleak and pretty examination of sound. The instruments used are a synthesizer, a piano, two violins, a cello, a harp, a harpsichord, a lute, a xylophone and a theremin. The albums that have influenced this project are Tim Hecker's "Harmony In Ultraviolet," Ben Frost's "By the Throat," Fennesz's "Venice," Deathprod's "Morals and Dogma," Biosphere's "Shenzhou," Deaf Center's "Pale Ravine," Harold Budd's "Lovely Thunder," William Basinski's "The Disintegration Loops," Susumu Yokota's "Sakura," Christopher Bissonnette's "In Between Words," B. Lustmord & Robert Rich's "Stalker," Svarte Greiner's "Knive," Alessandro Cortini's "Avanti," Loscil's "Monument Builders," Cities Last Broadcast's "The Humming Tapes," Philip Jeck's "7," Eluvium's "Talk Amongst The Trees," Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians," Jóhann Jóhannsson's "Englabörn," Max Richter's "The Blue Notebooks," My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless," Love Spirals Downwards' "Ardor," Mono's & World's End Girlfriend's "Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain," Boards of Canada's "Geogaddi," Ryoji Ikeda's "+/-" and Merzbow's "1930."
Offret is tied for my favourite project with O Beautiful Death and Opposition to the Mainstream Consensus but it is probably going to be your least favourite, philistine. This is about as pretentious as I can get.
If you haven't noticed, we are all drowning in reverb and distortion and have been for a long time now.
A certain haze has fallen over us.
Everywhere you go commercials are entering your brain. You can't stop it. You're just numb. You walk past flashing images and friendly voices selling you skin care products. It just washes over you.
You hear a man on AM radio spewing angry Christian rhetoric in a haze of grainy analog distortion. You calmly change the station and you do not think and feel a thing.
I enjoy putting it on ketamine. Think nothing, feel nothing. Go numb. Shut up and go numb. Take it.
Become the void. Become bleak. Become "nothing."
This is a little frightening, isn't it? If I weren't numb some of the noises coming out of this media box would be starting to scare me.
What did the TV say? Something about hellfire? My mind was elsewhere I'm in a bit of a haze.
Hm? What did it say? I spaced for a moment I'm on a lot of ketamine. Oh, it's 4:00 AM and I've been watching static for an hour, okay...
"Offret I" starts out playing with slightly melodic drones, I introduce pulsation in "Offret II" and it is basically nothing but pulsation in "Offret III." It always starts out with no melody and then gradually develops melody until it gets about as melodic as ambient gets on the last track. After these three albums I abandon the whole format, which I need to point out was the plan from the beginning just so you don't think I think it was stupid, start giving them titles, and just make whatever noises I feel like making at any particular time. Offret I through III are amateur and done without access to real actual people with real actual classical instruments.
"If it's All Over, Just Leave Already" is a mix of scary and pretty. "Mystery is a Fiction Genre Where the Nature of an Event Remains Mysterious Until the End of the Story" is all pretty. "They're Harvesting our Organs" is all scary. Still amateur, still no classical instruments.
Oh, I see what Offret is. Okay. I think Tim Hecker would like this, I've always known from the moment I listened to him back in 2004 or 2005 that this is what he and I feel but I don't know if he took it as far as I do. It may seem a little on the nose that I make you numb to scary noises but I assure you I went into this making the sounds my soul feels before I realized what this was. If you ever feel you need to ask if I intend to be on the nose the answer is no.
Oh but if I ever hear that now you think of reverb whenever you dissociate something I'm going to need to slap you in the face with a fish I hate it.
"The Offret Compilation" is the best of my early Offret work.
Genre: Experimental Music
Sub-Genres: Experimental Ambient, Dark Ambient, Neoclassical, Glitch
Instrumental
Offret is a solo ambient project from Kit Carruthers. It is a surreal, frightening, bleak and pretty examination of sound. The instruments used are a synthesizer, a piano, two violins, a cello, a harp, a harpsichord, a lute, a xylophone and a theremin. The albums that have influenced this project are Tim Hecker's "Harmony In Ultraviolet," Ben Frost's "By the Throat," Fennesz's "Venice," Deathprod's "Morals and Dogma," Biosphere's "Shenzhou," Deaf Center's "Pale Ravine," Harold Budd's "Lovely Thunder," William Basinski's "The Disintegration Loops," Susumu Yokota's "Sakura," Christopher Bissonnette's "In Between Words," B. Lustmord & Robert Rich's "Stalker," Svarte Greiner's "Knive," Alessandro Cortini's "Avanti," Loscil's "Monument Builders," Cities Last Broadcast's "The Humming Tapes," Philip Jeck's "7," Eluvium's "Talk Amongst The Trees," Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians," Jóhann Jóhannsson's "Englabörn," Max Richter's "The Blue Notebooks," My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless," Love Spirals Downwards' "Ardor," Mono's & World's End Girlfriend's "Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain," Boards of Canada's "Geogaddi," Ryoji Ikeda's "+/-" and Merzbow's "1930."
Offret is tied for my favourite project with O Beautiful Death and Opposition to the Mainstream Consensus but it is probably going to be your least favourite, philistine. This is about as pretentious as I can get.
If you haven't noticed, we are all drowning in reverb and distortion and have been for a long time now.
A certain haze has fallen over us.
Everywhere you go commercials are entering your brain. You can't stop it. You're just numb. You walk past flashing images and friendly voices selling you skin care products. It just washes over you.
You hear a man on AM radio spewing angry Christian rhetoric in a haze of grainy analog distortion. You calmly change the station and you do not think and feel a thing.
I enjoy putting it on ketamine. Think nothing, feel nothing. Go numb. Shut up and go numb. Take it.
Become the void. Become bleak. Become "nothing."
This is a little frightening, isn't it? If I weren't numb some of the noises coming out of this media box would be starting to scare me.
What did the TV say? Something about hellfire? My mind was elsewhere I'm in a bit of a haze.
Hm? What did it say? I spaced for a moment I'm on a lot of ketamine. Oh, it's 4:00 AM and I've been watching static for an hour, okay...
"Offret I" starts out playing with slightly melodic drones, I introduce pulsation in "Offret II" and it is basically nothing but pulsation in "Offret III." It always starts out with no melody and then gradually develops melody until it gets about as melodic as ambient gets on the last track. After these three albums I abandon the whole format, which I need to point out was the plan from the beginning just so you don't think I think it was stupid, start giving them titles, and just make whatever noises I feel like making at any particular time. Offret I through III are amateur and done without access to real actual people with real actual classical instruments.
"If it's All Over, Just Leave Already" is a mix of scary and pretty. "Mystery is a Fiction Genre Where the Nature of an Event Remains Mysterious Until the End of the Story" is all pretty. "They're Harvesting our Organs" is all scary. Still amateur, still no classical instruments.
Oh, I see what Offret is. Okay. I think Tim Hecker would like this, I've always known from the moment I listened to him back in 2004 or 2005 that this is what he and I feel but I don't know if he took it as far as I do. It may seem a little on the nose that I make you numb to scary noises but I assure you I went into this making the sounds my soul feels before I realized what this was. If you ever feel you need to ask if I intend to be on the nose the answer is no.
Oh but if I ever hear that now you think of reverb whenever you dissociate something I'm going to need to slap you in the face with a fish I hate it.
"The Offret Compilation" is the best of my early Offret work.
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SAC0012: The Offret Compilation
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01. (2023) It Sparkles I [10:33] .: 02. (2023) It Sparkles II [10:33] .: 03. (2023) It Sparkles III [10:33] .: 04. (2023) Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Dying in Space [32:24] .: 05. (2009) A Vague Glimpse of Horizon [08:08] .: Total run time: 1:12:11 Release date: March 21, 2024 Concept by Kit Carruthers; composed by Kit Carruthers; performed by Kit Carruthers. Album art by Kit Carruthers. |
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SAC0011: They're Harvesting our Organs LP
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01. Some of us are Dead I [12:36] .: 02. Some of us are Dead II [12:31] .: 03. You are not Safe I [10:58] .: 04. You are not Safe II [13:18] .: Total run time: 49:23 Release date: February 11th, 2024 Concept by Kit Carruthers; composed by Kit Carruthers; performed by Kit Carruthers. Album art by Kit Carruthers. |
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SAC0010: Mystery is a Fiction Genre Where the Nature of an Event Remains Mysterious Until the End of the Story LP
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01. Oops I Trampled the Flowers I [12:17] .: 02. Oops I Trampled the Flowers II [09:26] .: 03. Cherry Blossoms in Tokyo I [08:58] .: 04. Cherry Blossoms in Tokyo II [11:06] .: Total run time: 41:47 Release date: February 5th, 2024 Concept by Kit Carruthers; composed by Kit Carruthers; performed by Kit Carruthers. Album art by Kit Carruthers. |
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SAC0008: If it's All Over, Just Leave Already LP
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01. Collateral Damage I [12:15] .: 02. Collateral Damage II [11:27] .: 03. Burning a Cloud I [09:49] .: 04. Burning a Cloud II [08:13] .: Total run time: 41:44 Release date: January 24th, 2024 Concept by Kit Carruthers; composed by Kit Carruthers; performed by Kit Carruthers. Album art by Kit Carruthers. |
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SAC0007: Offret III LP
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01. Offret III: Untitled I [11:50] .: 02. Offret III: Untitled II [08:48] .: 03. Offret III: Untitled III [08:27] .: 04. Offret III: Untitled IV [09:12] .: 05. Offret III: Untitled V [06:56] .: Total run time: 45:13 Release date: January 18th, 2024 Concept by Kit Carruthers; composed by Kit Carruthers; performed by Kit Carruthers. Album art by Kit Carruthers. |
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SAC0005: Offret II LP
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01. Offret II: Untitled I [08:58] .: 02. Offret II: Untitled II [09:37] .: 03. Offret II: Untitled III [10:04] .: 04. Offret II: Untitled IV [07:13] .: 05. Offret II: Untitled V [07:07] .: Total run time: 43:05 Release date: December 31st, 2023 Concept by Kit Carruthers; composed by Kit Carruthers; performed by Kit Carruthers. Album art by Kit Carruthers. |
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SAC0003: Offret I LP
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01. Offret I: Untitled I [10:19] .: 02. Offret I: Untitled II [11:00] .: 03. Offret I: Untitled III [13:42] .: 04. Offret I: Untitled IV [16:00] .: 05. Offret I: Untitled V [12:26] .: Total run time: 1:03:27 Release date: December 18th, 2023 Concept by Kit Carruthers; composed by Kit Carruthers; performed by Kit Carruthers. Album art by Kit Carruthers. |