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Another animal song. I like narwhals. But they are nervous.
This is a more-or-less straightforward 7/8+4/4+6/8 jam with a few extra bits thrown in, really just an excuse to fool around with the electrified guitar, clear my head of ambient music, and pretend that Bill Bruford works for me. Only half as long as my usual marathons.
Dedicated to a beautiful animal.
My son, always the critic, says the guitar solos are "screeky" (?). Well, I suppose they are when it comes down to it. I've had worse appraisals. Besides, sometimes screeky is just alright with me.
Other comments and criticisms are, as always, most welcomed.
From Freesound:
By sol3noid (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=100284)
whale yawn.aif (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=21327)
By Rodcencko (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=383)
electronic Whales.aiff (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=16595)
THE NARWHAL
"... with ivory tusks spiraling out of their foreheads, the image of the unicorn with which history has confused them.
"The narwhal's tusk ... sold for a fortune in the Middle Ages, for twenty times its weight in gold.... in mid-sixteenth-century Europe there were no more than fifty whole tusks to be seen, each with a detailed provenance.
"We know more about the rings of Saturn than we know about the narwhal.... No large mammal in the Northern Hemisphere comes as close as the narwhal to having its very existence doubted.
"Their bellowing and gurgling, their bovinelike moans and the plosive screech of their breathing can sometimes be heard at a great distance.... A study* found narwhals [to be] 'extremely loquacious underwater' and noted that tape recordings were 'almost saturated with acoustic signals of highly variable duration and frequency composition.'
"Their attractiveness lies partly with their strong, graceful movements in three dimensions, like gliding birds on an airless day. An impressive form of their synchronous behavior is their ability to deep-dive in groups. They disappear as a single diminishing shape, gray fading to darkness. They reach depths of 1000 feet or more, and their intent, often, is then to drive schools of polar cod toward the surface at such a rate that the fish lose consciousness from the too-rapid expansion of their swim bladders. At the surface, thousands of these stunned fish feed narwhals and harp seals...."
--- From Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
*Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
This is a more-or-less straightforward 7/8+4/4+6/8 jam with a few extra bits thrown in, really just an excuse to fool around with the electrified guitar, clear my head of ambient music, and pretend that Bill Bruford works for me. Only half as long as my usual marathons.
Dedicated to a beautiful animal.
My son, always the critic, says the guitar solos are "screeky" (?). Well, I suppose they are when it comes down to it. I've had worse appraisals. Besides, sometimes screeky is just alright with me.
Other comments and criticisms are, as always, most welcomed.
From Freesound:
By sol3noid (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=100284)
whale yawn.aif (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=21327)
By Rodcencko (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=383)
electronic Whales.aiff (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=16595)
THE NARWHAL
"... with ivory tusks spiraling out of their foreheads, the image of the unicorn with which history has confused them.
"The narwhal's tusk ... sold for a fortune in the Middle Ages, for twenty times its weight in gold.... in mid-sixteenth-century Europe there were no more than fifty whole tusks to be seen, each with a detailed provenance.
"We know more about the rings of Saturn than we know about the narwhal.... No large mammal in the Northern Hemisphere comes as close as the narwhal to having its very existence doubted.
"Their bellowing and gurgling, their bovinelike moans and the plosive screech of their breathing can sometimes be heard at a great distance.... A study* found narwhals [to be] 'extremely loquacious underwater' and noted that tape recordings were 'almost saturated with acoustic signals of highly variable duration and frequency composition.'
"Their attractiveness lies partly with their strong, graceful movements in three dimensions, like gliding birds on an airless day. An impressive form of their synchronous behavior is their ability to deep-dive in groups. They disappear as a single diminishing shape, gray fading to darkness. They reach depths of 1000 feet or more, and their intent, often, is then to drive schools of polar cod toward the surface at such a rate that the fish lose consciousness from the too-rapid expansion of their swim bladders. At the surface, thousands of these stunned fish feed narwhals and harp seals...."
--- From Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
*Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
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Feter
Incredible ...really a true impressive piece of
work ..the guitars and the set behind it by all
means set a feeling of mysterious under water
world ..that you would be terrified with or
sympithize with just ..confusion to the confusion
on this sphere of new era of brain and feelings
wonderful job ..thnx alot for sharin !!!!