Recording of a wind-chime made from thin slices of glassy stone; not a geologist, so i'm not sure what kind of stone exactly, it's the colorful kind you can see thru when it's sliced very thin.
Dragging different kinds of stones, concrete blocks, on a concrete ground, looking for the sound of an opening grave, for a creepy show. Recorded with a zoom h2.
6 horses arriving from far away. Gallop on desert stones. Hooves crossing microphone on the floor. Palmyre, syria, 2007. Recorded with stereo xy audiotechnica at822 microphonerecorded on tascam dap148 khz, 16 bits.
Scraping an arrow with a stone on a stone wall, recorded using a self written app on my samsung galaxy phone, converted from mpeg v4 to mp3 using online-audio-converter. Com.
Dropping a stone brick onto a pile of stones, recorded using a self written app on my samsung galaxy phone, converted from mpeg v4 to mp3 using online-audio-converter. Com.
Here is some recording done in my back garden on the gravel. Equipment used:zoom h4n pro - inbuilt micrx6 spectral denoise. Some eq used to lower bird calls and make gravel sounds richer. Have limited to -3db.
Dropping a medieval drinking horn on a stone floor from a few centimeters over the floor. A few of the later takes were dropping it on a thin blanket ontop of the stone floor, to muffle the sound slightly.
I made this sound in september 2003 - i used a fairlight mfx 3 - a direct descendant of the first sampler ever made - and the best ever to this day editing software for ground breaking features and functions. Clip based eq and level which you could cross fade between made the use of automation almost redundant in precise to picture editing. It also had a unique alternative jog function. You could loop 1 frame or so as you chose of sound at the orginal pitch which made it easy to find transient points. I then 'grind' the play head over a solo'd sound and play this into a reverb unit. I have many of these accidental experiments and one day i shall make the fairlight pack!. Until then enjoy this alien - from mars with love :). Ps - you can do this experiment today! i found that i can use sound flower as an out put in audio finder. If you open a sample in the sample editor - you can recreate the fairlight jpg by grabbing the playback head in play. You may then route sound flower thru an input channel and get some unusual effects that are difficult to achieve. . If you can improve on this method let me know!.
