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Merroir

By onezero on January 19, 2014 10:36 pm

The re-emergence of my Section of Mollusks project, which uses animal and environmental field recordings as dance track source material.  Many of the bass and trumpet sources are freely available from NOAA, particularly the whale and dolphin sounds: http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/psb/acoustics/sounds.html.  Other instruments used are Bleep Labs Nebulophone and GetLoFi Quad Oscillator, as well as a bunch of single-hit drum machine samples (Rhythm Ace, Visco, MK1, broken Rhythm Ace).

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this gives me a serious vibe of world's end girlfriend's "black hole bird" and i'm loving it.

Thanks for reminding me that I've got a nebuluphone kit to build, had forgotten...! Put to fine use in your aquatic groove.

Thanks, everyone!  I wasn't familiar with World's End Girlfriend, but I can hear the similarity in that noisy ascending figure--in "Black Hole Bird" that's tremolo-plucked slide guitar, while here it's the GetLoFi Quad Oscillator.  Cool comparison.

sinewave, you should build the Nebulophone kit! It's a fun little instrument!  I'm quite happy with mine, and need to use it more.  Though I did use it a lot in this set: http://mauricerickard.bandcamp.com/albu … ber-9-2011

pretty great! could be a little shorter/concise but still cool!

very interesting sounds. great job!

A real groovy jam out vibe on this track.  Feels natural.

Yessir! Very cool.

Thanks, everyone!

This one begs for the focusrite and Live compression. Is it here? I don't really hear it...

-BFT

The Nebulophone and Quad Oscillator went through the Focusrite, and I did touch the track with some Live compression, but wanted to leave the dynamics in place, so I didn't squash it.  Lots of tricky frequency stuff with the oceanic sounds.

Spacey and trippy as hell.  Love the sounds in here.

This is really, really neat. I may need some of those dolphin noises. big_smile

Very Very Small wrote:

This is really, really neat. I may need some of those dolphin noises. big_smile


Have at 'em -- they're free for downloading from that NOAA link I have in the description. 

(I'm still looking for a good recording of a scallop launching itself off the sea floor.)

oh very funky and vibrant

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