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SOUNDS 2_17_2009

02.17.09 | Comment?

Back from Chicago with three sounds. These are all based on recordings of a metal sculpture in the courtyard of the Aon Center in Chicago. Metal rods about two meters high and a centimeter thick each. 2-300 of them arranged in more or less a row standing upright, attached to a solid metal base with the rest of their lengths free to sway and clang in the wind.

The raw sound:

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Next, the same sound quadrupled-up, with different band-pass filters and LFOs on each part:

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Finally, a different recording, pitched down and low-pass filtered to get rid of city-hum:

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