Line #60 Music/JamesFerraro


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2	[[caption-width-right:220:"I am Flintstones." (?)]]
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4	James Ferraro (born November 7, 1986) is an American musician, composer, producer, pianist, vocalist, poet and conceptual artist.
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6	His discography ranges from the 'hypnagogic pop'-defining 2000s period of his work, which featured surreal lo-fi drone soundscapes among tape-manipulated TV samples and arpeggiated synths, to his more modern and sophisticated work which shifts from electronic classical, to trap music, R&B and rock, to glitch music, sound collages and ambient music. His albums, often highly conceptual, follow themes like hyperreality, cybernetics, pop culture, modern America and the collapse of civilizations.
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8	He can be found on [[https://twitter.com/LIL_ICEBUNNY Twitter]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkcYjdh6CjynX1prWdy8K_g YouTube]].
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10	!Notable work:
11	* ''Multitopia'' (2008)
12	* ''Clear'' (2008)
13	* ''Discovery'' (2008)
14	* ''Marble Surf'' (2008)
15	* ''Chameleon Ballet'' (2008)
16	* ''KFC City 3099: Pt.1 Toxic Spill'' (2009)
17	* ''Wild World'' (2009)
18	* ''Last American Hero'' (2010)
19	* ''Night Dolls with Hairspray'' (2010)
20	* ''Far Side Virtual'' (2011)
21	* ''Sushi'' (2012)
22	* ''NYC, Hell 3:00 AM'' (2013)
23	* ''Skid Row'' (2015)
24	* ''Human Story 3'' (2016)
25	* ''Fanfare for the Boston Marathon 2017'' (2017)
26	* ''Anthrospray: Music for Extinction Renaissance'' (2017)
27	* ''Troll'' (2017)
28	* ''Four Pieces for Mirai'' (2018)
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30	!!James Ferraro's music contains the following tropes:
31	* AdvertOverloadedFuture: ''Far Side Virtual'' takes place in one.
32	* AndIMustScream: His ongoing Four Pieces For Mirai project focuses on a fictionalized version of the botnet of the same name, who seeks only to free humanity from technology while unable to save its environment or make its own decisions.
33	* ArtisticStimulation: His middle to late 2000s music under the name 'Lamborghini Crystal' was supposedly entirely created while he was addicted to huffing computer duster.
34	* BreadEggsMilkSquick: His 2018 interview for The Wire slowly delves into...interesting...allegorical ideas of his.
35	-->"The Earth has to burn", he philosophises. "Things need to burn in order to be renewed. I think that's what makes it more intense, is that yearly land is prevented from burning. I think there should be some artificial setting of fires." It seems an apt analogy for his outlook.
36	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: His Twitter is...well...
37	-->'''@LIL_ICEBUNNY:''' [[https://twitter.com/LIL_ICEBUNNY/status/939217043647328257 every retweet is the metastatic growth of thought cancer linking the programmable islands of self]]
38	--> [[https://twitter.com/LIL_ICEBUNNY/status/873981749696573446 the birds crave Taco Bell and are at war with each other at the feet of their suppliers]]
39	--> [[https://twitter.com/LIL_ICEBUNNY/status/868165147453534209 Tfw Kanye reinvents string cheese]]
40	--> [[https://twitter.com/LIL_ICEBUNNY/status/873143902752190464 I gave her an autistic flower]]
41	--> [[https://twitter.com/LIL_ICEBUNNY/status/888106784463888384 I am a chaos emerald.]]
42	* ConceptAlbum: Nearly his entire discography is conceptual.
43	* CreepyMonotone: Maybe not an entirely intentional element of his music.
44	** NYC, Hell 3:00 AM incorporates text-to-speech voices on a level that achieves NothingIsScarier.
45	** Parts of Skid Row invoke this, especially with the lyrics (which were originally poems).
46	** Anthrospray: Music for Extinction Renaissance bases its lyrical content entirely on an epic poem by Ferraro about fidget spinners, 3D printed buildings, climate change and ''"the rape of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Demeter]]"''. It is read out entirely by text-to-speech voices who show no emotion whatsoever.
47	* CrypticConversation: A lot of the text-to-speech dialogue on his 2010s records (i.e. NYC, Hell 3:00 AM and Human Story 3) ends up being this way due to a combination of disturbing prose, tech lingo and brand names.
48	* DownerEnding: "Nushawn" on NYC, Hell 3:00 AM.
49	* DroneOfDread: NYC, Hell 3:00 AM and Anthrospray: Music for Extinction Renaissance in particular.
50	* EverythingIsAnInstrument: See Sampling below.
51	-->'''Wikipedia:''' The sounds Ferraro uses are those that humans encounter but are not aware of. These include television jingles, cell phone ringtones and ATM machine noises.
52	* GenreRoulette: Chronologically; free folk/drone, hypnagogic pop, vaporwave, alternative R&B/art pop, trap, funk rock, electronic classical, glitch music and post-industrial music.
53	* IHaveManyNames: Ferraro's early work has been released under tens of different names. Just to name a few: 8pashupinath, Acid Eagle, Angel Snake, BEBETUNE$, Edward Flex, K2, Keyhole Voyeur, Liquid Metal, Nirvana, The Wooden Cupboard and Lamborghini Crystal, which was a band created with himself under the name of "J. C. Peavey". However, most of these had just one album released under them.
54	* JumpScare: Sections of "Burning Prius" (the piece, not the intro to Skid Row) and "Troll" achieve this quite strangely.
55	* MadnessMantra: "American violence / American violence / American violence" at the end of NYC, Hell 3:00 AM.
56	* {{Sampling}}: Supposedly inverted.
57	-->'''James Ferraro:''' I sample my own sources of sounds. I use AT&T Natural Voices and text-to-speech generators so it's all original content.
58	* SanitySlippageSong: "Capitoline Wolf".
59	* SpokenWordInMusic
60	* StylisticSuck: ''Far Side Virtual'', which uses deliberately cheesy synth sounds to mimic corporate jingles.
61	* {{Vaporwave}}: One of the {{Trope Maker}}s, next to Music/OneohtrixPointNever. Although...
62	-->'''@LIL_ICEBUNNY:''' [[https://twitter.com/LIL_ICEBUNNY/status/363219510288850944 fuk is vaporwave?]]
63	* {{Music/Vocaloid}}: "Troll".

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