#21

Ah, that’s lovely - thanks! :slightly_smiling_face:

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#22

This is my ferocious beast, Nira, terrorising a goat’s horn :slight_smile:

I was also fascinated by how melodic her chewing was, particularly when slowed! So I decided to accompany her on percussion.

Layer 1: Teeth on goat horn, slowed by ~3200%
Layer 2: Nira breathing
Layer 3: Original recording of Nira chewing a goat horn
Layer 4: Percussion played by me

Here is a non-ferocious photo of her:

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#23

Two samples have been used:

  1. A free whale recording.
  2. Myself saying “space time continuum”.

I edited both Samples heavyly, mostly granular synthesis via ambient_v3 and microgranny. I mixed resulting textures in Reaper with some fx fine-tuning.

Both sound sources (whale and man) are represented equally.

(Credits in the Soundcloud description.)

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#24

I have this field recording of starlings, and unfortunately have no idea where it came from, but it sounds like a virtuoso synth jam. I accompanied it with the break from “Hihache” by the Lafayette Afro-Rock Band, samples of the bass stem from “Strawberry Letter 23” by The Brothers Johnson, and a Wavetable part I improvised on my QWERTY keyboard.

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#25

Alright, here’s my take on this week. I didn’t have time to record anything myself, but I came up with the idea to play with cicadas and go noisy with them. Which worked out great, because the cicadas always seem to come through the mix really well. I found a Canadian cicada, and I paired it with a dog-day cicada for that powerfully shrill sound it makes. Was pretty fun.

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#26

It wouldn’t be the dog days of summer without the sound of cicadas… However, I don’t think these are the Dog day cicada (Neotibicen canicularis), but rather the Scissor-grinder cicada (Neotibicen pruinosus).

The likely cicada in question:

I made field recordings of the cicadas in my back yard with my trusty DR-05. Some parts were looped, others just mixed in straight. Tempo was synced to the pulsating of the cicadas’ call.

There are a few other noises of summer in the background of the field recordings: Birds, cars, aircraft, etc.

I added drum machine (with BOOM plugin on ProTools) and a few synth tracks (Prophet Rev2).

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#27

Gulls beckon us to the seashore just to make light of swimming apparel, so I featured them in this piece - recorded on the shore and processed through Supercollider (in particular at the end of the piece where the darker gulls show up). This is accompanied by a music recorded In Ableton with piano and some Kontakt samples.

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#28

Nice prompt. I had a field recording of crickets outside my house from a few years ago. Did not do any manipulation of that, but have accompanied their sounds with some piano and bass.

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#29

This is most excellent - I’ve listened to this on and off over the past couple of days. The flow is particularly impressive; as it the mix between growly growls and the vocal accompaniment. :ok_hand:

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#30

Disquiet0394
shaky birds
• Key: F major, G minor, C minor BPM: 120 Time signature: 4/4 DAW: Reaper
• Instruments:
• Plug-ins:
• Started with a field recording of birds singing in my driveway
• Put this recording on two different tracks offset by 1 second to give the illusion that they are communicating with each other
• added a shaker with Grooove CM

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#31

Only had about 1 hour and little means to contribute to this weeks entry. Great prompt though :+1:

I took a recording of some toads and just manipulated the sound in a few different ways across 4 tracks (paulstretch, simpler slices and a vocoder plugin). Used a M4L LFO to modulate parameters on some of the tracks.

So I didn’t “add” anything new myself, but more enabled the frogs to sing a little more through my manipulations.

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#32

Coming in just under the wire here, but I couldn’t pass this one up. I accompanied a few nighttime talkers I recorded last night: mostly crickets (I think) with the occasional frog, plus a moth flying near the recorder. And lots of human transportation, which I don’t think I get to count as a separate species.

Plaits harmonic oscillator through Polaris and Cinnamon, both FM’d by the Plaits signal delayed and cut up by Clouds. Cold Mac handles panning of the Polaris and Cinnamon. Teletype chooses new filter cutoffs and Plaits notes with each “breath” from Tides.

Second voice: MFB OSC-02 through 2hp LPF, sequenced by Teletype, using a long pattern with start and end points semi-randomized with each breath.

:ant: :ant: :ant:

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#33

I really dig this - it has a wonderful sense of balance and little pockets of atmospheric space that open up and contract.

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