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Keywords:
cricket (3), cicada (2), nature (35)
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Description:
Reflections on a late night walk.
No instruments were used in this track! Everything is processing of the raw night sounds.
Hardware:
Apart from my G5, lots of crickets, cicades, a few frogs, my size 12 shoes, a few cars, and the MoPac train. All recorded on an M-Audio Microtrack.
Software:
EQs: Elemental Audio Eqium and Firium, Logic channel EQ.
Dynamics: Logic compressor and limiter, Neodynium
Reverb: Space designer (multiple)
Other effects: Discord 2, Tassman, Ottophilter, MHC flex FX resonator (multiple), DelayDots Pitch, Michael Norris Spectral Shimmer and Spectral Stretch
Trancegate: ArarldFX Stormgate 1
Multiple Elemental Audio Inspector to make sure I'm not going to blow up anyone's tweeters.
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Small World. &mdash 08/12/07 - 09:11:21 AM
We actually know the girl in that picture you've used to illustrate your fine mix. Her name is Doris Nobbs and she works in our local pub as a cleaner. What a fucking coincidence. Good sounds chief. [ Reply to This ]
Doris the cleaning girl? &mdash 08/12/07 - 09:13:58 AM
What a waste of her talents. Clearly she needs to walk around with paint slathered all over her perfect skin.
Victor.
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makes me wanna flange somebody... &mdash 08/12/07 - 10:49:24 AM
As a young teen, I would get up every morning at 4 AM and fold newspapers and then ride through the neighborhood delivering them on my bike... the crickets, sound of whirring spokes, and the occasional train... slightly flanged by the crisp morning air... and the touch of ominous darkness, not knowing if that pack of dogs was right around the corner again this morning... all brought back delicious shivers of youth. I loved those quiet early morning rides in the unearthly quiet town.
Great soundscape here, I must draw a comparison to Mungo... similarly evocative moody feel.
ttfn,
Drakonis [ Reply to This ]
Ah... Newspaper days &mdash 08/12/07 - 11:04:09 AM
I actually did that too. Loooooong time ago, but it was a great way to make some money. Yes, there is something special to night sounds where there's almost no one around.
Victor.
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ominous &mdash 08/12/07 - 11:08:58 AM
Drakonis was wise to evoke the pack of wild dogs -- there is a kind of dread in this piece that can be part of a late night jaunt.
I like the digital -- I dunno what you'd call it, I wanna say "distortion" -- low sample rate thingie that you have in the background, I could interpret it as metaphoric. The seeming commentary on the moments you recorded is what makes it a proper musical experience.
It's a nice ambient thing you've done! [ Reply to This ]
Commentary &mdash 08/12/07 - 11:17:38 AM
Thanks. The challenge of this piece was to bring out the elements that were already there, and make them sound musical. The moving bass is a combination of some filters; the chirping high sounds are manipulated cicadas; the rhythm is the train sample, &c. Fun exercise and I'm glad you got a kick out of it.
Victor.
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This is cool Vic &mdash 08/12/07 - 12:34:05 PM
A neat twist on a moon light strool. Which moon I'm not sure.
Anyway a very cool sound design with mind altering sounds. [ Reply to This ]
Vic... &mdash 08/12/07 - 01:09:57 PM
Is it okay to say, that this made me feel creepy!
Interesting experiment, to say the least.
I NEVER watch horror movies! There too intense for me. To my surprise, this evoked terror and quite a bit of horror, too! Yikes!
I'm just gonna bet, that you met your goal with me. Nice job, I think...
Dion [ Reply to This ]
Ooooh! &mdash 08/12/07 - 05:02:46 PM
Very Ghost train-ish here.... but that sounds like a horse and carriage later on trotting down a cobbled street. Really creepy, but excellent sounds, M [ Reply to This ]
spooky and chilly cool &mdash 08/12/07 - 08:29:53 PM
this is borderline experimental - and could work well as soundtrack as well... creepy cooool doooood. :) [ Reply to This ]
I think the shoes were out of time &mdash 08/13/07 - 11:17:49 AM
This is what I really like about MJ. I can listen to everything from a sensitive classical piece and this in just a few clicks.
Some amazingingly diverse talent on this board.
Interesting stuff Vic.
Cheers
Dick
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Don't think &mdash 08/13/07 - 12:05:05 PM
I'd like to listen to this at night in a graveyard. Not that I would of course I'd be too busy digging.
This really is evocative and extremely well done, I think a horror director would drool for it. Ha ha ha (Denis Price voice).
Cheers
Len
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Thriller Movie &mdash 08/14/07 - 09:23:17 AM
Very nice sound, much enjoyed listening to this Vic, you did a huge work IT SOUNDS REAL !!
Very nice piece !
Take Care
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Yeman Auf Al-Rawi
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Journey &mdash 08/16/07 - 05:02:20 PM
Very interesting sounds and mood made from outdoor sounds , letiing us imagine anything from our personal memories .
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Sounds &mdash 08/16/07 - 11:31:36 PM
Reminds me of when I used to sneak out of my house when I was in high school and ride my bike over to my girlfriends house in the middle of the night.Streets totaly dark-no cars...
Excellent job really cool! [ Reply to This ]
real ambient &mdash 08/17/07 - 08:03:08 PM
this is the real 'ambient' genre -- i love this kind of thing
excellent sound processing!
the occasional passing car works nice - love the train whistle - the mood brings out some sort of primal fear of the night
don't know what that sound is at the ending - a siren? - but it's great!
thanks
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thanks for the compliments &mdash 08/17/07 - 09:04:17 PM
The sound at the end is a passing car, first put through the Space Designer reverb (preset: Black Hole), and then through a couple of MHC Flex Resonator, where I'm twiddling the resonance frequency downward.
That resonator effect is also used earlier to make the sound of the car door closing a bit more than life size.
I had a blast doing this....
Victor.
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Extremely interesting track &mdash 08/17/07 - 10:25:44 PM
was this recorded in Austin? I just left this morning and will return on Sunday. I like how you processed the natural sounds and created a ring mod effect that carries the "melody". Unique coincidence with my notwink song - and also with the woman in the picture. Twilight Zone. [ Reply to This ]
this is &mdash 08/18/07 - 06:23:41 PM
Could feel the cool... &mdash 08/22/07 - 10:44:52 AM
damp night air crawling on my skin. Chilling. A David Lynch feel to this. And what the heck where those cicadas saying anyway....
Charlie [ Reply to This ]
What's that? &mdash 11/25/07 - 09:36:04 AM
I see why you brought me here....
What is the root of the instrument sound, like a strumming thing?
cool. Nice separation on the channels, too
. - Harold [ Reply to This ]
Drone instrument &mdash 11/25/07 - 09:56:42 AM
The drone is the basic cricket sound sent through a comb filter modulated by two LFOs (I use Tassman to build that stuff), and then through OttoFilter. Remarkably, this makes a non-tonal drone suddenly sound like an instrument. It's the comb filter that accentuates certain frequencies very sharply.
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Cicadas &mdash 12/16/07 - 05:44:23 PM
Love the cicadas! Such great music from nature.
OK, the train is just wonderful. What a terrific sound.
The crickets in my earphones are driving me insane. Get out of my head! Sounds like Martian crickets (as in the movie "Five Million Years To Earth") trying to take over the planet.
Creepy, but in a cool way. You're having way too much fun with all your plug-ins.
The effect after the engine-ignition is lots of fun. [ Reply to This ]
Cool piece. &mdash 12/29/07 - 05:45:51 AM
Not much into experimental which seems more appropriate than ambient but it held me to the end. [ Reply to This ]
I don't care &mdash 08/27/08 - 08:45:23 PM
What made you decide to do this. I am happy you tried. You made me think about the sort of sounds you hear each day. Tune up those shoes and do it again. Great. Thanks. [ Reply to This ]
Thanks for commenting &mdash 08/28/08 - 10:50:53 AM
I've become rather fond of this "tune", and I have some ideas to do similar things. Stay tuned! [ Reply to This ]
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