I have come close to finishing a track that I have been working on occasionally since September, tentatively titled Blitzen Machine after an ACB entry that contains a few bars of the original concept. What’s nice for me about exposing some of my techniques here is that afterward I have a resource to help me remember them. I have tons of archival recordings with sounds on them that I have little recollection of the process involved in making them. Perhaps another function of this blog can be to remind me what I did to make those sounds. Here’s an excerpt from Blitzen Machine that contains a little bit of the melody.
Blitzen Machine Excerpt
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Tonight I’ve decided to share another of my first few Sony PCM-D50 test recordings. It is simply the sound of filling my bathroom sink partway with cold and then the rest of the way with hot water followed by the much quieter sound of the water draining down the plug hole. These sorts of mundane sounds are especially interesting to me once they have been recorded and taken out their context. Do we ever really listen to the sounds things make while we go about our daily lives? Probably not. And for good reason. If we were distracted by the qualities of the typical sounds in our environments we would never survive as a species. Our hearing is tuned to alert us when we hear irregular or unusual sounds. To my ears, ordinary sounds become extraordinary when I focus on listening to them.