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Stereo Pipes
Messing with two sets of tuned pipes… overtones galore! When I do eventually sample them, going to try using dual mono – playing the same note on both sets at the same time, but spaced & mic’d seperately……
Parabolic
Yesterday I was given this older parabolic dish & it came in this fantastic case… Time to #normalise ostentatious baggage for #fieldrecording ? The actual parabolic dish… Dan Gibson EPM Model P500 Apparently if you angle…
Detritus 602
▶ Rap God in sign language ▶ Metal Shows via sign language (they should be like this when signing Politicians!) ▶ More on the Bourdain doco AI deep fake voice ▶ LOL:…
UI Sound Library
Will write more on the providence of this library tomorrow…
Work in progress
Bones & Claves, Stones & Blocks…
Rainy Saturday
Perfect day for… working on metadata :/ Also… ‘rain on long wire’ recording… raindrops act like tiny impulses, triggering long wire resonance From an oblique angle, looks like a science experiment…
Maybe 1985?
Me and a bunch of friends drove to The Portage for New Year Must have been mid 1980s… pre-Internet!
Detritus 601
▶ Is this progress? ▶ A cup of maintaining my baseline please? ▶ Oblique Rave Strategies ▶ perfect juxtaposition, twitter algorithm…. what indeed ▶ sage advice.. …
FOLIAGE REC
My main mic rig for FOLIAGE recording… Three mics, two mic stands – 8040/8050/8040 for LCR, and best part of the weird mic stand setup is that it is really stable! The forest floor is never flat &…
Waikanae street art
Moose Call
CONGA GLISSANDO / MOOSE CALL I always wondered what they were called, thanks James!
Detritus 600
▶ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – Todd Haynes doco good review at indiewire ▶ unintended consequences: weaponising music copyright? ▶ Inoffensive Language for the Music of Sound world! a useful blog post and a link…
nuzic 174
▶ a classic.. ▶ Heavenchord – Forest Wind ▶ Mathimidori – Maiia (Deadbeat’s Dub) ▶ Rod Modell – Transmission D – BC
Len Lye at 120
Since borders remain closed I thought especially for anyone offshore that the new online exhibition of Len Lye at 120 might be of interest! But before that a virtual visit to the gorgeous Govett Brewster Gallery in New Plymouth, home…
Long wires
Apart from recording Transmitter mast cables this week, I’ve also been experimenting with long wires. Two wires were connected from a window in my studio, out to trees in the garden. In this video, the right-hand wire is 30metres/100ft long…
How to interrogate a sound?
I often see people (reddit, forums etc) trying to ID a sound, so I am writing an article about “how to interrogate a sound” i.e. techniques to work out how a sound was created… So my Q: what…
Take 2
Different story yesterday with strong NW wind!!
Strange recycling
Who leaves a hefty subwoofer lying on side of the road? I thought it must be munted, but it looks ok… will test Hmmmmm…. Googled model & brand, seems its more of a PA speaker than a…
Paul?