Modal calve
Dec 10, 2022, 09:46 AM
"Upon listening to the recording, the unusual acoustics and mix of sounds in the cave made me want to zoom into the audio in detail, so initially I slowed the track down, creating even more otherworldly sounds! These inspired me to create yet another world! No synthesisers were used, just the manipulated source audio.
To create my composition I first selected a small section of the recording which I stretched; slowing down and smearing the audio, manually accentuating certain frequencies and harmonics. This created a 45 sec looping drone which forms the background texture of the composition.
"Along with this drone, I used a granular effect to break up the original audio into small pieces adding more depth and tonal variety to the texture.
"Time warping, delay, frequency shifting feedback loops and reverb were also employed. These three layers were mixed in real-time over the original field recording to create the final composition."
Nam Lod cave reimagined by id_23.
IMAGE: © Vyacheslav Argenberg / http://www.vascoplanet.com/, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
To create my composition I first selected a small section of the recording which I stretched; slowing down and smearing the audio, manually accentuating certain frequencies and harmonics. This created a 45 sec looping drone which forms the background texture of the composition.
"Along with this drone, I used a granular effect to break up the original audio into small pieces adding more depth and tonal variety to the texture.
"Time warping, delay, frequency shifting feedback loops and reverb were also employed. These three layers were mixed in real-time over the original field recording to create the final composition."
Nam Lod cave reimagined by id_23.
IMAGE: © Vyacheslav Argenberg / http://www.vascoplanet.com/, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons