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Bubble Chamber by SmokeyVW [Email]
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Last Played: Nov 19, 2008 - 11:08:39 AM
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Uploaded: Feb 06, 2008 - 09:37:51 PM
Last Updated: Oct 06, 2008 - 07:26:39 PM



Description:
album: Soundex Algorithm
track 1: 4:49 Padme Anoushka
track 2: 2:15 Firewatch
track 3: 3:56 A C G and T
track 4: 0:00 I Forgot My Dolls
track 5: 4:01 Rush In
track 6: 5:02 How Long Can I Wait For You?
track 7: 0:00 My Flash Back
track 8: 5:23 Derivatives
track 9: 0:00 My Mind On Your Body
track 10: 4:15 Bubble Chamber
track 11: 0:00 I Ride The Trails
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Song Description

extremely tiny particles can cause bubbles to form in a super-critical medium

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Thanks. &mdash 02/06/08 - 10:15:29 PM


Very cool sound.Yeah like this very much.

sounds like dripping water in parts. Thats it

Child blowing bubbles and soap suds forming foamy lather and floating up in to the air as multicoulered bubbles oh How lovely
and sweet this is. It touches all my senses.
delicousely Howz that. I really mean this !

Down to My ipod. on repeat.



Thank you so much for sharing

Peace

Dee

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. &mdash 02/27/08 - 06:26:19 PM
hi Dee

glad you enjoyed this!

it was a little foray into making echoes that aren't really echoes, and just fooling around with Garage Band...

GB is an endless playground!

thanks

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right then vw &mdash 02/07/08 - 08:09:01 AM
your poetic talents translate so well to your musical endeavors and love this one... very nice and hats off my friend... well done and a audio treat!!

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. &mdash 02/27/08 - 06:29:27 PM
thanks DA

waves

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Who are you? &mdash 02/07/08 - 10:16:49 AM
I mean really?

Are you like a genius or someone who spends all day in a think tank/
You have such a unique voice.

Bubbleicious track

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. &mdash 02/23/08 - 10:21:16 PM
thanks Steve for listening and commenting!

~~~

i'm just an ordinary guy. this won't help my cause:

Phrase of the week : "Plato's cave allegory had it wrong. In the holographic model, the two dimensional 'shadows' are the reality. It is the three dimensions we think we see that are the illusion." -- Bill Grundmann (2006)

this circulated for a little while as an email trailer, but i never could track down the source. the text itself is an excerpt from a letter i had sent to Scientific American, and they published it. shocked the heck out of me to see it in print!

but really, i'm just an ordinary guy. i'm not a mad scientist. i just read too much.

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Hypnotic &mdash 02/07/08 - 02:00:06 PM
once again a very inventive piece.

I wonder where ideas come from?

Cheers

dick

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. &mdash 02/27/08 - 06:31:00 PM
thank you

where do they come from? ultimately, i dunno. any hints?

see my reply to sonny jim...

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great sounds &mdash 02/07/08 - 06:00:16 PM
this is really intersting. i love that metallic sounding sound in the first part. was that a reverb trick? almost sounds like doing nitrous when i was a kid. i'm always blown away that you record your stuff on GB. how are you able to control all of the delay effects? the vocal at the end gives it such a nice way out, a touch of humanity after all of the digital mayhem. really nice smokey.

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. &mdash 02/27/08 - 06:37:49 PM
that metallic thing is the flanger set to full slow - so that it is static. i made three separate tracks to set the "pitch" on the drums to three different notes - and cut them in and out to make the little melodic riff.

the delay effects are actually just very short loops of guitar samples, with lots of volume automation on it. sounds like an echo - but it ain't!

i don't recall why i chose to use the vocal loop for the ending - but i like your explanation a lot!

thanks

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There's &mdash 02/08/08 - 08:35:28 AM
an Eno vibe on the site these days, it seems to me.

I love things like this, especially when they're this well done. Good sounds and good decisions. I will admit that if this were my song, I would have thought up the bubble/medium bit after the fact; but I'm interested: which came first, the song or the description?

Cheers,

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. &mdash 02/08/08 - 09:01:18 AM
i had just read an article about the new Large Hadron Collider near Lake Geneva - it's coming online this year. they're expecting lots of exciting new physics discoveries.

because of that article it somehow made me think about cosmic rays, the solar wind, the aurora borealis, and this low frequency radio effect called whistlers caused by magnetic storms. this song started out from that direction. sort of outer space stuff.

in seeking a title and picture, the idea came to mind of the old bubble chambers (i don't know if these are still used any more, i suspect not). that turned the theme inside out: it's more like inner space.

so during the final work on this i had ideas of chambers, oscillating electrons, and resonance in mind. the static-flanging and echoey stuff came from that i guess.

you had to ask! :-)

thanks

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I had to ask &mdash 02/10/08 - 11:48:28 AM
and I'm glad I did! Thank you for the insight into your method (at least for this).

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I'm way behind on my Smokey doses &mdash 02/10/08 - 04:41:34 PM
this is really cool - you've been busy. What a fresh sound that sweeps in after the first third - highly original. Great concept and execution.

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. &mdash 02/27/08 - 06:49:59 PM
that sound is actually a mixture of a recycled loop that i had made for Progress http://www.macjams.com/song/30292 (and some ukulele loops from around that same time roughly a year ago). i found that flanging can be used to make the "waves" effect from that loop sound even more like moderate waves crashing on the shore...

i've found myself revisiting old ideas to find new ideas lately.

thanks

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