7 Nov
2010
7 Nov
'10
12:50 p.m.
On Thu, November 4, 2010 11:42 pm, david wrote:
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
Well, I like a bit of sci-fi with my meditation. It's not so easy to get a
robot to sound soothing so I just rolled with it and was trying for
clarity as priority.
I have uploaded a new version which I think
fulfills the Ambient aspect
of
the project. It also has some aspects of Gregorian chanting, Buddhist
chanting and Mongolian throat singing which made it into the mix.
Totally
unplanned. IMO it gives the overall soundscape a very meditative feel
now.
Wouldn't say meditative. The spoken word sound is too interruptive and
distracting for that. Also, the repetitive "1950's UFO sound effect"
sounds don't seem to fit that idea, either.
I do wonder what it might be like listening to a full
Ambisonic version
of it, on a real Ambisonic sound rig.
I haven't designed it for a 3d field. But that would be fun to do.
Thanks for the OGG file, I wouldn't have listened again if I'd had to do
another 700MB download.
Just out of interest, and being that you are a fluent english speaker I
wonder if you could understand much of the content of the spoken word?
But yes, I have had in mind some bad/cheesy 70's films while mixing so
that is a good match on your part ;-)
Next step is to create the movie for it. Barbarella all the way...
I think I have added some more conventional
musical qualities with this
mix and the overall sound is quite soothing to listen too. Especially
the
end section which comes over in waves which I find to be contextually
appropriate given the content of the material.
It sounds like a soundtrack for a bad 1970's psychedelic/art film.
More interesting than the first version of it, but I
think I've heard
enough to decide that ambient-psy-trance isn't for me.
Didn't you say that about my last set too?
I guess you could say there is a theme there.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.
"ZPE is not about creating something from nothing: It is about using the
zero point of a wave as a means to transform other forms of potential
energy like magnetic flux, heat, or particle spin into usable energy in
such a way that entropy appears to be reversed."