The Entomology Of Sound

== The Entomology Of Sound ==
=== Tracklist (2006 Edition) ===
The Darkening Scale I 	5:10
Blue Laughter 	2:50
Dr. Cameron's Round 	3:45
String Fragment 1 	1:12
Be Silent...., Not 	5:02
Trench 1 	4:49
Also Sprach Siphonaptera	4:57
String Fragment 3 	1:27
Bach's Aria 	3:50
Bach In Gondwana 	3:21
String Fragment 4 	1:06
The Entomology Of Sound 	8:48
The Darkening Scale II 	8:49
"The Entomology of Sound was the first release I made under the name The Darkening Scale on returning to music after an absence of 20 years. The title acknowledges the influence of Renaldo and the Loaf who were also known to use insect-based titles – Songs for Swinging Larvae, The Blowflies Dilemma, the unreleased (and unfinished) Moths on Sloths, not to mention I Believe in Bugs (reworking of the Ivor Cutler classic). It’s also drawing a (tenuous) analogy between an entomologist collecting strange and exotic specimens and the process of collecting strange and exotic samples to produce music. As for the music, it’s quite a mixture there’s a couple of Residents remixes which predate Stuck Bad. Bach’s Aria samples Bach is Dead and Rest Aria while Blue Laughter samples Blue Rosebuds and Laughing Song. Trench 1 anticipates Sonic Archaeology, the trench of the title being an allusion to an archaeological dig. Elsewhere there are lots of big orchestral samples and a couple of ambient pieces. No doubt if I was recording this now there are plenty of things I’d do differently, but for a first effort I’m quite pleased with it. And I’d still like to hear the title track played by a real orchestra!"
The Darkening Scale is the solo project of David Janssen aka Ted The Loaf of Renaldo & The Loaf.
NOTE
There are two very different albums under this title, the first one being his debut as "The Darkening Scale" released for sale on myspace and later available for free on his now defunct mainpage, 2006
The other one is a compilation which gathers music from the following releases :
The Entomology Of Sound (2006 Version)
Six Things Recycled
Stone Deaf Mythology
alongside some new remixes and songs.
"The Darkening Scale is the solo project of David Janssen aka Ted The Loaf of Renaldo & The Loaf. A purely digital affair, DS started in 2006 when RATL was on hold. The Entomology of Sound was the first album and came out as digital file and a very limited CDr. David says about it: "Back in 2006, much to my surprise, I found myself making music again after a long gap. Starting at the bottom of a steep learning curve, The Entomology of Sound was the first result, followed by a couple of other collections which reworked some of the ideas of The Entomology of Sound. I made a few CDRs for friends, sold a few via MySpace and offered some as free downloads. As the Renaldo and the Loaf reissue series came to its conclusion, and The Digital Larynx appeared on From Vienna with Love, Klanggalerie suggested releasing some material by The Darkening Scale 'properly'. Given that much of the material was nearly 10 years old and that I now felt that, with hindsight, there were a lot of things that I would have done differently and some things I wouldn't have done at all. In preparing this CD I was in the fortunate position of being able to rework and edit a lot of the material and use related material from Six Things Recycled and Stone Deaf Mythology. The experience of producing the bonus discs for the RATL reissue series also helped, especially with composing new pieces 'on the fly', so to speak. NB: no musical instruments were harmed whilst making this recording." A must have for Renaldo & The Loaf fans."
klanggalerie edition 2017 
=== Tracklist ===
1 	Continental Drift 	2:59
2 	Cops And Pooters 	3:25
3 	Also Sprach Siphonaptera 	3:00
4 	Thripatronik : 1st Instar	1:16
5 	Strange Figment 	5:34
6 	Slackening 	1:32
7 	Tiara Ruck Song 	1:16
8 	Thripatronik: 2nd Instar 	1:58
9 	Eardrums Scorned 	2:34
10	Absent Seduction 	4:15
11	Thripatronik: 3rd Instar 	1:48
12	The Entomology Of Sound 	3:31
13	Casbah Air 	1:52
14	Thripatronik: 4th Instar 	1:11
15	Nettle Bison 	3:35
16	Chamber Axis 	4:04
17	Sallow Newt 	1:59
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