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The Insect World by Jim Bouchard [Email]
Genre: Ambient

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Hits: 209
Comments: 10
Votes: 3
Plays: 23
Last Played: Aug 06, 2008 - 11:55:35 AM
Downloads: 15
Fans: 6
Uploaded: Jun 15, 2008 - 10:09:35 AM
Last Updated: Jun 15, 2008 - 10:09:35 AM
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Description:
Maurice, my 10 year old son, came up with the title and the beginning elements of this piece and I took over and ran with it. He recorded himself playing drums and singing using the MacBook's internal microphone. I added a bunch of synths, took parts of his recording and reversed parts and treated them with a bunch of wacky filters. Then add in some loops and voila!
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Et voil &mdash 06/15/08 - 11:10:00 AM

Very nice experimental track .

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The Insect World &mdash 06/15/08 - 03:50:47 PM
As it is an experimental but it can be use
as a film score ...thnx for sharin !!

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Brightly colored &mdash 06/16/08 - 10:43:28 AM
The Insect World is right... it really sounds like the experience of a foraging bumble bee, or wandering ant. Excellent use of wacky filters. The title caught my attention, because I went for something similar with my last posting ("Arthropod") but took a more frantic approach. Nice work, Jim and Maurice.

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scary fun &mdash 06/16/08 - 12:39:26 PM
Fun stuff! Or maybe I should say: scary stuff ... because it sounds like it's a bug-eat-bug world going on.

It's nice to see a father and son working together on a science project.

If you two need a name for your band ... you could always go with "The Beetles"

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Maurice &mdash 06/16/08 - 02:37:31 PM
Sometimes the image of Maurice walking around your house singing "Oh Death," pops into my head randomly.

I like it that you guys are doing a song together. It's almost as though you're bringing him into the family business, although he's probably been doing this stuff for a while. What does he think of what you made out of his vocals and drums?

I love all the different textures and the backwards vocals at the end are a great endcap. For some reason the whole thing evokes Twin Peaks for me.





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very cool &mdash 06/16/08 - 02:58:07 PM
strangely and delightfully good!

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Freaky &mdash 06/17/08 - 09:13:14 AM
good - just as I would imagine the ants down on my basement floor were discussing how to get to the crumbs over there without my right foot getting in the way of their conquest.

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Unexpected post .. &mdash 06/18/08 - 04:22:18 AM
.. but wonderful. Great to see you getting involved in Dad's "work" Maurice!

Neil (from Australia)

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Top sounds &mdash 06/20/08 - 03:04:35 AM
I love the quality of all the sounds you're getting here Jim. even though it's abstract and unusual there's a sonic richness that's very pleaseing to the ear (man, have I just written sonic richness? and it's only friday morning.....) time for a coffee...

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wow &mdash 07/08/08 - 08:25:51 AM
you must be very proud of your son. a great concept, well-initiated by him. i can imagine him completing his own projects not too long from now :)

I like it! I like how it was bookended with his reversed vocals, and I like the drumming.

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