http://www.futurehaus.com/audiovault/Temple_Soundscape_001.mp3

This is my first Sonar 3 recording. Nothing was sequenced as it's totally improvisational. It's fairly quiet, and you can set your ideal listening volume by the sounds around the 10-15 second mark as it doesn't get much louder than that for the rest of the piece.

-Shane

It's like a music-box made in the tropical african forrests of wood without a dancing ballerina, but instead a dancing zebra

interesting sounds, shane.
short though.

sometimes that's all that's needed.

impressive stereo field ...

as usual, awesome soundscape. stereo field was really cool. i had headphones on so got the total effect. hey, isn't it about time you change your sig pic

lates

t-willy

normal wrote:

impressive stereo field ...

I was thinking the same thing..

I've noticed that before in his mixes

great tones and as always a perfect mix,but and i have looked everywhere,i cant seem to find the other twenty minutes cmon shane yer big tease dont stop there

Thanks guys! It's just a noodle session. I didn't even try to cover up the mixer noise, though I'm sure I could get rid of most of it with Audition. I sort of like the air it left in the track.

-Shane

vurt wrote:

... i have looked everywhere,i cant seem to find the other twenty minutes )

Exactly what I was thinking. Wonderfully recorded

Just as a matter of interest, any chance of a list of instruments used in this track, Shane?

Miro wrote:

vurt wrote: ... i have looked everywhere,i cant seem to find the other twenty minutes ) Exactly what I was thinking. Wonderfully recorded Just as a matter of interest, any chance of a list of instruments used in this track, Shane?

Sure. A whirlwind trip to Wal-Mart just before rush hour yielded me carrying home the fruit of some poor Chinese worker:

$19.84 US (aluminium wind chimes with cherry beaters)
$14.96 US (bamboo wind chimes with bamboo beaters)
$6.44 US (bamboo wind chimes - another design)
$3.93 US (cheapo chime tree)

The most hilarious thing is that the box that one of the bamboo things came in has a rather good photo of the object on the cover, but with a super blurry background of what appears to be an average grass field. There might be a row of hedges back there - hard to tell even for a guy who works with plants all day and who can use photoshop in the dark with the monitor off. But the designer put a caption over part of the product photo that reads: "Decorative items used as photo props are not included.| As if I expect there to be a Japanese contemplative garden in this 15" x 7" box! I had a good laugh out of that knowing there was some poor Chinese corporate bureaucrat who was worried that someone might return the product in disgust. "Where's my green,beautiful planet? It was on the box!"

A metal dumbek with real goatskin head that I got over ten years ago in a trade (got rid of a telecaster and some other swag). If my mind worked better, I might remember what else I got in that trade. I love to trade stuff; much more fun than just procuring things.

a hammered metal bowl intended for plants from Target. It's old and probably cost less than $10. My cat shredded the plant that was in it and created a consistent tornado of crap to clean up until I finally just had to throw the plant away. Little bastard.

MXL 990 (you can get these condensor mic's for $65 from MusiciansFriend.com now). At some point I had splurged for the $35 shockmount and a cheapo mic stand to mount it all on. Can't remember when I acquired this. I must have alzheimer's disease.

So, not much real investment here as far as money goes, given that the investment was spread out over a decade. I mostly just wanted to test the "family" vibe between the sound sources and it came out OK. When I focus my heart and mind on it, the next piece using these objects will rise above this one I think.

As usual, I used SIR and a DRE770 reverb impulse on the master bus. A few instances of e-phonic retro delay helped me get some of the nice spacial chaos. Also an instance of WideBoy on one of the bamboo thingies seems to have worked pretty well. I am just a tinkerer, so what I end up with is just a result of trying to get a performance of each of these objects into it's own channel, then a bit of "what if I do this"... end result: another dent in my hard-drive.

Oh yeah, you can hear my hardwood floors creaking in a few spots as I was holding up the chimes for each take and moving around the room, hovering around the mic trying to get it all recorded. The floor in one spot sounds just like a snare ghost note. Pure accient, that. Though it's absorbed in the other sounds, my dog's pitter-patter feet are in there too. He can't sit still when I am moving around. He is compelled to shadow everything I do.

-Shane

very very cool track indeed !

too short.

give us more of these fantasmagoria

Wider Boy Pro.. one of my best purchases ever