Confluences
May 11, 2023, 01:41 PM
For a while now, I have been strongly pulled towards investigating the possibilities of using feedback from natural sources combined with digital sound-tools in order to trigger and generate collaborative bio-melodies. So this remix brief seemed like an excellent excuse to begin to tentatively explore some of these ideas further.
Using a fair bit of persistent coaxing and with a combination of various VCV rack modules, selective spectral filtering and some randomly tuned digital resonators reacting to the rich frequencies of the recorded flowing Italian stream sounds - much to my delighted surprise, I discovered that the stream seemed to want to sing these strange meandering contrapuntal melodies to me...No, I was not expecting bagpipes either.*
* I subsequently discovered that there is a type of dual-chantered Italian bagpipe called the 'zapogna' which does not sound entirely dissimilar to the mysterious stream instrument that emerged here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zampogna_romana_alla_serrese_(Pazzano_2_settembre_2012).ogv
Stream in Vicenza reimagined by Fiona Conn.
Using a fair bit of persistent coaxing and with a combination of various VCV rack modules, selective spectral filtering and some randomly tuned digital resonators reacting to the rich frequencies of the recorded flowing Italian stream sounds - much to my delighted surprise, I discovered that the stream seemed to want to sing these strange meandering contrapuntal melodies to me...No, I was not expecting bagpipes either.*
* I subsequently discovered that there is a type of dual-chantered Italian bagpipe called the 'zapogna' which does not sound entirely dissimilar to the mysterious stream instrument that emerged here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zampogna_romana_alla_serrese_(Pazzano_2_settembre_2012).ogv
Stream in Vicenza reimagined by Fiona Conn.