On Tue, 21 Aug, 2007 at 10:55PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms spake thus: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:07:04PM +0100, james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > http://www.archive.org/details/aliethno > > > http://www.archive.org/download/aliethno/thorwil__aliethno.ogg > > > > How are you creating these sounds? I love them! > > Thanks :) > > The lead is a watercan somewhat similar to this one: > http://www.daylily-discounters.com/images/watercan1.jpg > but made of plastic. I 'played' it using a wet towel on the handle. > This caused the partly water-filled body to resonate, an effect I > discovered while cleaning the living room :) I can honestly say that I would never have thought of using a wet towel and a watering can to make music, let alone to clean my living room :) > There are some effects on it, but they don't alter the sound much. > The wet signal is fed through a delay before the reverb to have a > big room without muddying up the main signal. That's what it's > supposed to achieve, at least :) > > Everything else is made of samples from my Windows days, as this > thing started as a Cubase session (without the can). Quite a number > of effects on it, most notably several instances of an Auto Phaser. > > The idea behind it was and is to make some kind of alien ethno > music :) Well, it certainly sounds like it. You should create some sample packs - there are some very beautiful sounds in there that the rest of us probably wouldn't happen upon or imagine. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
