Delta wave insomnia
Sep 30, 2023, 11:20 AM
"When originally choosing the field recording I went for something that was rich and textural and not obviously relaxing, as I wanted to portray a different side to the normal calming idea of sleep.
"Recently with hot nights and stress, I’ve been in exactly the right state to complete a piece that hopefully in some way represents the slow dread and rush of insomnia and broken sleep.
"I took the original recording and “broke” it apart by using noise reduction and heavily band passed certain frequencies to create a delta wave binaural frequency which runs throughout the piece. This frequency supposedly induces calm and sleep.
The noise reduction created some lovely happy accidents, namely the percussion sounding loops and the odd accompanying bass. I then further processed the original recording through a chain of resonators and gates to create the synth top line and the band passed and separated “vocals” are run through various chains of fx to create a drowning and underwater feel, neither asleep or awake, the feeling I hope the piece provides overall."
Bath air conditioning drone reimagined by The Quiet Wood.
Part of the Music for Sleep project - for more information and to hear more sounds from the collection, visit https://citiesandmemory.com/music-for-sleep/
IMAGE: Agadant, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
"Recently with hot nights and stress, I’ve been in exactly the right state to complete a piece that hopefully in some way represents the slow dread and rush of insomnia and broken sleep.
"I took the original recording and “broke” it apart by using noise reduction and heavily band passed certain frequencies to create a delta wave binaural frequency which runs throughout the piece. This frequency supposedly induces calm and sleep.
The noise reduction created some lovely happy accidents, namely the percussion sounding loops and the odd accompanying bass. I then further processed the original recording through a chain of resonators and gates to create the synth top line and the band passed and separated “vocals” are run through various chains of fx to create a drowning and underwater feel, neither asleep or awake, the feeling I hope the piece provides overall."
Bath air conditioning drone reimagined by The Quiet Wood.
Part of the Music for Sleep project - for more information and to hear more sounds from the collection, visit https://citiesandmemory.com/music-for-sleep/
IMAGE: Agadant, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons