Majestic mammalia
Jan 13, 2023, 12:44 PM
"I pretty much used the Humpback whale sound in its' entirety, employing a bit of Izotope to remove some of the extra ambient noise.
"Then warped in Ableton to create a loop out of it, adding some extra delay and reverb. I kept all the extra clicks etc. as I didn't want to take too much away from the original sound.
"The field recording has a fragile, beautiful mood to it, which is how I start and end my composition. This was the source for my inspiration. The middle section has a feeling of movement, a journey, inspired by their yearly migrations.
"(If you had to visualise my composition, it starts where they feed in the polar waters, then start their huge migration to tropical waters, finally arriving at their destination to breed and give birth.)
"To add to the immense, majestic size and feel of them, I also used some tubas and pitched the original recording an octave down."
Humpback whale reimagined by Sean Ou Tim (Mr Sakitumi).
Part of the Polar Sounds project, a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Explore the project in full at http://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds.
"Then warped in Ableton to create a loop out of it, adding some extra delay and reverb. I kept all the extra clicks etc. as I didn't want to take too much away from the original sound.
"The field recording has a fragile, beautiful mood to it, which is how I start and end my composition. This was the source for my inspiration. The middle section has a feeling of movement, a journey, inspired by their yearly migrations.
"(If you had to visualise my composition, it starts where they feed in the polar waters, then start their huge migration to tropical waters, finally arriving at their destination to breed and give birth.)
"To add to the immense, majestic size and feel of them, I also used some tubas and pitched the original recording an octave down."
Humpback whale reimagined by Sean Ou Tim (Mr Sakitumi).
Part of the Polar Sounds project, a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Explore the project in full at http://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds.