Sunday, February 28, 2021

So just how malleable is sound?

 

Studio Noise Manipulated (Death of a Soundcard)

This is an experiment in how malleable sound is today with the use of digital processing. You hear the source content briefly at the start, noise and hum coming from a dying soundcard. That sound is split into narrow bands using a filter bank and each band is then processed differently. As there was a hum element in the original sound it was easy to derive a pitched sound and then further pitch and frequency shift the results.

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/2FLG6BH3G5xEM6rEXVxNiY?si=KJG90zY-ToizLslTtEi2GA

Bandcamp Free download https://markdaltongriffiths.bandcamp.com/track/death-of-a-soundcard

 

Mundane Music: Towel Rail

Another single source music concrete piece, "Towel Rail" is literally just that, a few hits on a metal towel rail, digitally proce...