A lot of interesting discussion and some controversy surrounding the "slowed down crickets" audio trending online at the moment. I decided to have a crack at it myself. As I expected, slowed down cricket audio didn't sound anything like a boy choir. But then I tried lowering the PITCH of the slowed down audio, and things got interesting. So as a second pass, I slowed down and pitched down the (already) slowed down and pitched down sound, used a highpass filter, and notch filtered out the overwhelming resonant frequency (it was peaking at around 1200hz), added a tiny bit of reverb to smooth the glitching artefacts introduced by stretching the audio so far, and the result was. 

Surprising. 

I'm one of the ones who believed this was a hoax - and whilst this doesn't sound like the singing boy choir sample everyone's raving about, you could see how with a tiny bit of manipulation from here, you could make it sound like that.

Slowed down and PITCHED down Crickets

And now it starts to sound even more like the "infamous" recording. I reckon turning one of these bubs into a MIDI instrument, and I'd be able to recreate the whole thing easily.

Pitched down, Slowed Down, LAYERED Cricket recordings

Unreleased track from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the feature film "Middle Children", directed by Victor Miraudo. 

Soundtrack composed and performed by Alexander RIngis. Copyright 2006, Alexander Ringis. 

Lessness

It was a long time ago, and we made some beautiful music. 

This is "The Attic" - an unlikely joint venture. This track was kind of an accident. And of COURSE, it was simply titled "Boom Beka". 

The Attic Feat. Eleanor F. Chaos, "Boom Beka"

So I wrote this track WAAAAY back in 2003. Nobody really seemed to understand it. I didn't care. I continued to perform it live in various situations, and venues. I never expected it was accessible to a "mainstream" audience. 

Who knows? Perhaps an audience in 2015 will be more forgiving than those that listened to this track way back in 2003. 

Who knows. 

TEKNOINOI

Theme song to the so far unreleased game, "Little Shop Of Farters", created for a GameJam way back in 2008. Yes, I definitely had fun making this. 


Little Shop Of Farters Theme

Perth, just Stop it. 

You're not Bangkok, or Brisbane. 

Perth Rain October 2015

Main theme from the short film "The Brink", produced in Western Australia, sometime in the mid 2000's. 

The score was written by myself as a homage to a Jewish "Klezmer" tune, in terms of instrumentation and arrangement, but with a slightly more mainstream and western bent. 

Main Theme from "The Brink" Short Film

I remember back in 1997, seeing the footage from the "Phoenix Lights" UFO mass sighting and being absolutely mesmerised. Not long after, I played a live electronica set at a party, and I used the video reports footage looped as background imagery, and when people asked me later what movie it came from they were utterly *astonished* to hear that it was real life footage, based on a real life event that very same year in Phoenix, Arizona. 

So I thought I'd write a short piece of trippy ambient electronica to go with the imagery in honour of the anniversary. 

Full disclosure. I bashed this out in less than a day, and it's literally the first music I've written in five years. 

OH, and if you're curious, this is the most famous of the original footage from 1997.  A number of documentaries have been made about the incident but to this day it's considered an unsolved mystery. 

For extra enjoyment points, play my track at the same time as the video. 

 https://youtu.be/xOULfp5vKUs

PHOENIX 2017

My mate Brett wanted to record a short witticism and see what I could do with it in the space of half an hour. This was the little joke that resulted.

Brett's Wisdom Sketch

Theme song from the ABC Documentary, "Rosie's Story". Music Composed by Alexander Ringis, lead Vocalist Eleanor Chaos.

Rosies Song - From the Documentary "Rosie's Story"

Former moderately successful film composer, now just a dabbler, making choonz for the love. :)

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