Found Sound: Finding inspiration in a world of sounds!

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Hello,
An article from Sonicstate about found sound and field recording. Looking at gear to use, things to record and some techniques on making music with them:



https://sonicstate.com/news/2022/03/01/found-sound/

Have you done any such recording?

Chris

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Have you done any such recording?

Chris

for about 40 years

[vurt]

Have you done any such recording?

Chris

for about 40 years

i almost says " you is old!"
then thought "dammit, i started roughly 39 years ago"

[vurt]

i was 8 or 9, had no idea it was already a thing
was doing the "recording the top 40 bits i liked off the radio" but had left the tape recorder in hi speed mode without realising, till playback

my mind exploded!!! what else can i do with this?
spent a couple of years, using cassette tapes, getting sounds, then cutting and rebuilding cassette tape
till my uncle found me at it one day, and informed me of 2 inch tape and reel to reel and that there was a history of this!!!!

[fairlyclose]

Have you done any such recording?

Chris

for about 40 years

i almost says " you is old!"
then thought "dammit, i started roughly 39 years ago"

actually even longer ago - probably more like 46 years ago. I'm 64 and started playing with tape recordings just after school. The drummer in our band made little synths and circuit bent things way back then as well

[fairlyclose]

i was 8 or 9, had no idea it was already a thing
was doing the "recording the top 40 bits i liked off the radio" but had left the tape recorder in hi speed mode without realising, till playback

my mind exploded!!! what else can i do with this?
spent a couple of years, using cassette tapes, getting sounds, then cutting and rebuilding cassette tape
till my uncle found me at it one day, and informed me of 2 inch tape and reel to reel and that there was a history of this!!!!

so true - those happy accidents. That's how My friends and I started massed detuned guitars (on purpose) back in the 70s. Played things by accident and liked the result. Our little mantra was "make a mistake, make it again and call it a technique"

[vurt]

Have you done any such recording?

Chris

for about 40 years

i almost says " you is old!"
then thought "dammit, i started roughly 39 years ago"

actually even longer ago - probably more like 46 years ago. I'm 64 and started playing with tape recordings just after school. The drummer in our band made little synths and circuit bent things way back then as well

awesome! circuit bending i didn't discover till i came to kvr, whyterabbyt introduced me to that world

[vurt]

i was 8 or 9, had no idea it was already a thing
was doing the "recording the top 40 bits i liked off the radio" but had left the tape recorder in hi speed mode without realising, till playback

my mind exploded!!! what else can i do with this?
spent a couple of years, using cassette tapes, getting sounds, then cutting and rebuilding cassette tape
till my uncle found me at it one day, and informed me of 2 inch tape and reel to reel and that there was a history of this!!!!

so true - those happy accidents. That's how My friends and I started massed detuned guitars (on purpose) back in the 70s. Played things by accident and liked the result. Our little mantra was "make a mistake, make it again and call it a technique"

ive always looked at guitar, as something to play the fx with

[fairlyclose]

Have you done any such recording?

Chris

for about 40 years

i almost says " you is old!"
then thought "dammit, i started roughly 39 years ago"

actually even longer ago - probably more like 46 years ago. I'm 64 and started playing with tape recordings just after school. The drummer in our band made little synths and circuit bent things way back then as well

awesome! circuit bending i didn't discover till i came to kvr, whyterabbyt introduced me to that world

He ended up becoming a highly skilled lab technician - I'd go into his work and there'd be circuit boards lying on benches with various probes plugged into them measuring whatever it was the project needed. All stuff he'd made. Was just talking with him this morning (my oldest friend) on how European Honey Bees f**k up the Australian ecosystem

[vurt]

aye, moving native species around never seems to work out well

[ChamomileShark]

Another oldie who started doing this over 40 years ago..partly because I only had a couple of tape recorders and couldn't play any instruments.

I've now returned to doing that again. Most is recorded to a Zoom H2n but I also do recordings to Walkman sized cassette machines and Microcassette recorders. I've also done direct sampling into Teenage Engineering's PO-33 and a Digitakt.

The other things I use alot, especially if I want "good quality" recordings is Wavelab Elements to edit out all the traffic noise from some of the field recordings and RX to remove some of the noise.

I then use the sounds to add elements to my more normal stuff and as a foundation for the more experimental stuff.

[ghettosynth]

nm