Let's do some ambient horror (from an unexpected place).

Actually found an appropriate picture! My son at a bookstore in downtown Milwaukee that has some free range cats. Love me some big orange bois

A couple months ago, two of my kids decided that I needed to make a song with sounds they provided me. I had NO idea what I was going to get, but what pretty excited about the direction it would send me. A few days later, I got this file in my texts. It is 3:55 of random squeaks, coughs, chirps, laughs and other assorted random noises. I started playing around with it, but wasn't really sure where to go with it. I had the initial idea of making some sort of dance track with a sampler, but nothing really clicked, and the ways I was messing with the sounds didn't really gel to my ears. After messing around with granular synthesis in week 25, I realized that was a great way to approach these sounds. I really figured out what to do when I thought of using PaulStretch as well. OK then, time for some ambient horror! All sounds are built from that original voice recording using various methods.

This track is probably busier than I would want for a soundtrack - I think I was mainly having fun trying out different things and seeing what sounds I could get. I was having a ton of fun just playing with controls and seeing what I could get. A track like this is so different than a song - it feels so much more like sculpture or painting - just having moments and places be good. Also has a very different feel of when I say, "yeah, I can stop" on a mix. This was fun, and apparently turned out OK - I texted it to my kids, and got back "LMAO That's amazing".

Mission successful

Tags: ambient, boots, chirps, coughs, glitch2, granolizer, horror, laughs, meow, paulstretch, pulled a paisleyfrog, sample alchemy, week 28 2026, View by:Paisleyfrog