The pulse and the overtone

"When I first heard this recording two things struck me - first was the pulse and the second was the overtone rich timbre. I set about cutting loops which I then filtered and applied some light touches of reverb and 8 band EQ and began lining up the loops so as to produce a pulsing relationship between multiple stacked loops. Then I took apart the partials in order to produce longer tones which I applied reverb and EQ to fine tune and extend temporally. I liked the metaphorical idea of these signals from an old phone in the ether and used the spacial qualities of the longer tones as a kind of set of layers for the pulses to glide in and out of much like the phone signal. It struck me that the physical properties of sound and the pulse could provide a musical structure."

Composition by Robert Dansby. 

This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds