Found sounds

[downfader]

For a little while I have been playing with my zoom H2 capturing various sounds and importing them into Live. I had watched [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI-3fYTYU3I]THIS video and thought how great an idea it was.

I'm not as good at playing improvised instruments live so I just banged an old bike (oo-er) and recorded the mess it made. I imported the sounds as percussive hits into Impulse (a drum machine instrument in Live 6, and later as a synth type of sound with a bit of Live mangling (dropped it in Simpler, looped and played the hits as a loop, added filters and fx)

I dont have access to an mp3 convertor at the moment so have uploaded with video and slide shows to youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyl7MefKqtA This is the first, percussive example (tongue in cheek video, you dont have to watch, lol, just listen)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktz3MJ5MgRc This is my second experiment with gaining sounds from tapping bike parts. I twanged the cables, hit the spokes and spun the pedals for this, LMAO!!

[digitalkettle]

Good bit of fun...could be the start of an interesting project.

Nice nostalgia of my old running route around Southampton Common

(used to rent in Highfield)

[downfader]

Good bit of fun...could be the start of an interesting project.

Nice nostalgia of my old running route around Southampton Common

(used to rent in Highfield)

Thanks matey.

Have stripped the old bike apart ready to sell off the parts now so no more bike-instrument The cash will just have to do

BTW still lots of women runners on the common.. that flasher is back, wonder if thats linked?

[oneoverphi]

Great job. I was looking for some low-tech percussive elements for a song I'm working on (I don't have many percussion instruments, nor the money to buy them) and just started rummaging around the house. Ended up tapping on the metal cup from a milkshake blender, bashing some old silver forks together (nice tone, long sustain) and jangling my house keys. Just proved to me that you don't need high-end equipment to make music.

Cheers

euphonicremarks.wordpress.com

[downfader]

Great job. I was looking for some low-tech percussive elements for a song I'm working on (I don't have many percussion instruments, nor the money to buy them) and just started rummaging around the house. Ended up tapping on the metal cup from a milkshake blender, bashing some old silver forks together (nice tone, long sustain) and jangling my house keys. Just proved to me that you don't need high-end equipment to make music.

Cheers

euphonicremarks.wordpress.com

One of the guys that does it best is an artist called Polyslax. I found him on the ableton forums and he has some amazing sounds. Sometimes his music is abstract, somes jazzy and laidback. Always interesting.

Then there was another guy I found years and years back. His artist name is Machinate, but he really knew how to mangle the sounds too. He's on youtube but doesnt do much music these days sadly.

Its amazing what you can do with sound. Stretch it, whack it through guitar pedals, filter and compress...

[echosonic]

It'd be nice to hear that in a decent quality mp3. I love found sound stuff, but it sounds like you could do with a bit of layering to give some of the sounds a bit more in the way of dynamics. It all felt slightly one dimension by the end. A bit of extreme panning would be cool too.

[downfader]

It'd be nice to hear that in a decent quality mp3. I love found sound stuff, but it sounds like you could do with a bit of layering to give some of the sounds a bit more in the way of dynamics. It all felt slightly one dimension by the end. A bit of extreme panning would be cool too.

I've been pretty limited for time lately so havent been able to play with the sounds as I'd hoped. Most of my spare time has been spent making campaign movies for cycling, LOL

[littlegreenman]

Great stuff there downfader, like it, let's offroad especially
The comments from fairwaynoob are hilarious, what a cnut.
What cycling campaigns you working for?

http://www.nch.com.au/switch/ Good, free file converter (rolling 30 day trials)

[downfader]

Great stuff there downfader, like it, let's offroad especially
The comments from fairwaynoob are hilarious, what a cnut.
What cycling campaigns you working for?

http://www.nch.com.au/switch/ Good, free file converter (rolling 30 day trials)

Fairwayboob cracked me up. Funny, funny guy and didnt even realise it. I met him when I reminded him on another video that if he makes threats against someone the police might get involved (there have been one or two cases of others meeting a similar fate iirc). Within 2 hours he'd sent me 15 messages and comments, hahaha!!

I'm a member of the CTC, but not any local cycling campaign as yet (the southampton one only has about 6 people). Everything I've done so far (letters and emails mostly) has been done off my own back.

I have musicmatch on cdrom. That'll do it but I've not been bothered to drag it out and install it.