On Thu, November 4, 2010 11:42 pm, david wrote: > Patrick Shirkey wrote: > >> I have uploaded a new version which I think fulfills the Ambient aspect >> of >> the project. It also has some aspects of Gregorian chanting, Buddhist >> chanting and Mongolian throat singing which made it into the mix. >> Totally >> unplanned. IMO it gives the overall soundscape a very meditative feel >> now. > > Wouldn't say meditative. The spoken word sound is too interruptive and > distracting for that. Also, the repetitive "1950's UFO sound effect" > sounds don't seem to fit that idea, either. > Well, I like a bit of sci-fi with my meditation. It's not so easy to get a robot to sound soothing so I just rolled with it and was trying for clarity as priority. > I do wonder what it might be like listening to a full Ambisonic version > of it, on a real Ambisonic sound rig. > I haven't designed it for a 3d field. But that would be fun to do. >> http://djcj.org/audio/kotau/abundance > > Thanks for the OGG file, I wouldn't have listened again if I'd had to do > another 700MB download. > >> I think I have added some more conventional musical qualities with this >> mix and the overall sound is quite soothing to listen too. Especially >> the >> end section which comes over in waves which I find to be contextually >> appropriate given the content of the material. > > It sounds like a soundtrack for a bad 1970's psychedelic/art film. > Just out of interest, and being that you are a fluent english speaker I wonder if you could understand much of the content of the spoken word? But yes, I have had in mind some bad/cheesy 70's films while mixing so that is a good match on your part ;-) Next step is to create the movie for it. Barbarella all the way... > More interesting than the first version of it, but I think I've heard > enough to decide that ambient-psy-trance isn't for me. > Didn't you say that about my last set too? I guess you could say there is a theme there. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd. "ZPE is not about creating something from nothing: It is about using the zero point of a wave as a means to transform other forms of potential energy like magnetic flux, heat, or particle spin into usable energy in such a way that entropy appears to be reversed." _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
