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By Jim Wood on June 9, 2018 3:43 pm

Title suggested by my printer. All sounds derived from my 1888 Dresden cello. Random harmonics and body/bow clicks in a drum rack. Drum Buss used to add punch to the plucked low C string. Occasionally C Major.

That's definitely some creative and cool use of the cello.  It's really a quite versatile instrument.  Even with more editing than playing  smile

Wow, this sounds ominous, and also kind of like Tom Waits accompaniment, which is cool.

Nice to hear a 130 (!!!) year old cello in such a modern way. That is really fine art. I was fighting with my cheap china cello for my latest song and could hardly get a pleasant sound out of it. but this one sounds awesome in the way you are manipulating it.

Great in rythm and sound. I'd really like to see builder of this Cello listening to this smile

CosmicCairns wrote:

That's definitely some creative and cool use of the cello.  It's really a quite versatile instrument.  Even with more editing than playing  smile

LydiaPrimate wrote:

Wow, this sounds ominous, and also kind of like Tom Waits accompaniment, which is cool.

Q-Rosh wrote:

Nice to hear a 130 (!!!) year old cello in such a modern way. That is really fine art. I was fighting with my cheap china cello for my latest song and could hardly get a pleasant sound out of it. but this one sounds awesome in the way you are manipulating it.

theGuen wrote:

Great in rythm and sound. I'd really like to see builder of this Cello listening to this smile

Well, it's a not-that-fancy factory instrument, so who knows exactly who made it?

Thank you all for your kind comments!

Really cool.  Noisy yet melodic.  Agreed on the Tom Waits comment!

I really like this.  Creative use of the cello and great collaboration with your printer wink

mikememo wrote:

Really cool.  Noisy yet melodic.  Agreed on the Tom Waits comment!

I'm not that familiar with Waits, other than with his gravelley voice.

orangedrink wrote:

I really like this.  Creative use of the cello and great collaboration with your printer wink

Always listen to your printer, I say.

Unexpected use of a printer, with fantastic results! The combo yields a very cohesive atmosphere/narrative big_smile

this is a really great track. Reminds me a bit of Diego Stocco.

Gab Manette wrote:

Unexpected use of a printer, with fantastic results! The combo yields a very cohesive atmosphere/narrative big_smile

The printer only did the title; let's not give it to much credit. ::)

Bleeoop wrote:

this is a really great track. Reminds me a bit of Diego Stocco.

Not familiar with Stocco. Must investigate. Thanks!

Jim Wood wrote:
Gab Manette wrote:

Unexpected use of a printer, with fantastic results! The combo yields a very cohesive atmosphere/narrative big_smile

The printer only did the title; let's not give it to much credit. ::)

Ooooh! My bad, I completely misread your description. For some reason I got into my head that you paired sound samples of your printer while it was printing along with a cello to create the track. I will make sure to have my 2nd coffee before reading descriptions in the future XD

Gab Manette wrote:
Jim Wood wrote:
Gab Manette wrote:

Unexpected use of a printer, with fantastic results! The combo yields a very cohesive atmosphere/narrative big_smile

The printer only did the title; let's not give it to much credit. ::)

Ooooh! My bad, I completely misread your description. For some reason I got into my head that you paired sound samples of your printer while it was printing along with a cello to create the track. I will make sure to have my 2nd coffee before reading descriptions in the future XD

Although , why not sample the printer?

Jim Wood wrote:


Although , why not sample the printer?

That could yield some interesting results probably! I've heard people do nice beats with floppy drives and printers, even with samples of a dying harddrive's sounds smile

Such a cool array of sounds you've created. The Glissando towards the end were fantastic. 

Nice ominous mix of sounds from the cello.  The spooky element gives it a horror film sort of feel.  yikes

Super sounds, awesome edits ... maybe you're channeling the cellos deep history

Awesome stuff!

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