Gränsfors Railroad
By hamx0r on January 7, 2018 4:43 pm
My aim for this 1st composition this year (in months!) was to use audio samples of our new son being born. As he refuses to come out, I changed course to using railroad and wood-chopping samples.
Instead of the story of birth, this short piece tells the story of the Oregon timber industry and the unintended consequences with both the start and end of industrialized logging: Perhaps some forests in the world are depleted too quickly with machines while others were being responsibly managed but had their industry shut down unnecessarily, causing ghost towns, addiction, and poverty.
Notes:
The sawtooth wave synth sounds are the industry clashing with the woodwinds forest.
The 1st melody you hear is from the end of Beethoven's Symphony 9 mvmt 1
The 2nd melody you hear at ~37sec is actually faintly heard in the train sample below ~5sec.
Train sound from [soundcloud]31188633[/soundcloud]
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial (BY-NC)
