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woggle · Post by **woggle** » Mon May 19, 2014 10:26 pm

for guitar and field recording of insects hovering over the Porarari River, Punakaiki, New Zealand.

woggle · Post by **woggle** » Sat May 24, 2014 12:55 am

a small bump

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 12:26 pm

Can't get this one to work Greg. It starts playing then stops dead.

woggle · Post by **woggle** » Thu Jun 05, 2014 11:58 am

ran out of water

Genetic_Junk · Post by **Genetic_Junk** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 3:08 am

So if I want to cover this piece where should I start?

I'm in the south western united states if that helps.

Pretty interesting. Moves from sparse meditation to dense wild. What did you use for the field recording?

woggle · Post by **woggle** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 6:58 am

Genetic_Junk wrote:So if I want to cover this piece where should I start? I'm in the south western united states if that helps.

Pretty interesting. Moves from sparse meditation to dense wild. What did you use for the field recording?

To do a cover the following may help

I recorded this with my Sony minidisc - MZ-90. I don't use it anymore, but it is a great recorder (now I use a Sony PCM-M10). The mics are a cheap stereo pair sold for binaural recording. They have alligator clips on them which is great for attaching to things like bushes (in this case) The insect sounds have been slowed down so that there is the original recording, another slowed a little bit and another slowed a little bit more. Plus the water sounds which are natural. The guitar is the high pitched stuff right at the beginning and through most of it. Plus some more 'snap' sounds. The guitar is a nylon string classical prepared by attaching small split shot fishing sinkers onto the strings. That's an old recording as well. There's some reverb and delay on that - and multiple tracks.

Allomerus · Post by **Allomerus** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 12:54 pm

Wow Greg. Very different! Great ideas! Well done!

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Sat Jun 07, 2014 12:06 pm

Still couldn't get this to play from inside kvr, just stops at :21.

Going to your SC page did the trick, and glad I finally got to hear this. Fascinating techniques, makes me want to bust out the field recorder. Great sense of activity to this piece of the crescendo-ing really works well.

woggle · Post by **woggle** » Sat Jun 07, 2014 1:38 pm

thanks John and Matthew - I thought you were joking about it stopping because the piece ends so abruptly - I didn't realise it actually wasn't playing via kvr.

insect stream - for guitar and field recording