This recording of the falls located on Shingle creek at Webber parkway was made last weekend on the way back from the Surly Darkness Day festival. My friend Kevin and I stopped during our bike ride back from the Surly brewery in Brooklyn Center where the event was held to drink a beer by the falls before crossing the Mississippi river at Camden on our way back to Northeast Minneapolis for dinner before riding to a campfire party in the Seward neighborhood.
At the festival we tasted many fine beers brewed by the renowned Surly Brewing Company and heard three great bands, including Guzzlemug, God Came From Space and Powermad. It was a long day, but well worth it.
Shingle Creek Falls
This as yet untitled rough mix is made up of a few simple melodies recorded on my 1916 Raudenbush & Sons upright piano. Interspersed within the piece are a number of what I’m calling piano sound objects. I used a couple of different techniques to create these sounds. 
I came across this old late night session of sleepy Rhodes melodies and decided to render about fifty eight seconds of it. It was originally recorded on November 3, 2006 at about 12:53am. I love electronic timestamps. 
This spooky sound was created in Ableton Live using a variety of processing. The main device responsible is Pluggo’s Feedback Network. I ran a modulated synth pad into it, then removed all of the dry signal after automating several parameters. I re-sampled the results then pitched it all down two octaves being careful to filter out inaudible low frequencies. Finally, over the top I added a ping pong delay so the audio swirls around the stereo spectrum adding to the disturbing qualities of the sound.