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05 Crazy Over You

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First track and single of upcoming album Babe Tokyo! 

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Tuned In Demo

Artists: Brendan West, Ali Einoder and Xinmin Jia

The changes in the sounds contained in the audio recording of Tuned In are all triggered by sensors detecting changing levels of noise and particulate matter in the surrounding environment. 

Brendan West, who is one of the sound designers behind Tuned In explains the recording process:

“The set up for the recording involved the use of an outdoor space and an indoor space containing a lit candle and a loudspeaker playing traffic noise at high volume. I begin the recording in the outdoor space where the atmospheric level of particulate matter is low. The slight crackle and the slow pulsing you can hear is caused by the small amount of particulate matter in the surrounding air. You can hear the microphone pick up the occasional bird along with my voice which triggers the pink noise to wash across the stereo field like an ocean wave. I then move to the indoor space where smoke from a lit candle provides a higher particulate matter level than the outside space. This change can be heard in the recording as the crackling sound increases in density, the modulating tone increases in pitch and the pulsating tone speeds up. Pink noise level increases and the low-end kick drum pattern speeds up as the traffic noise from the loudspeaker grows in intensity. The siren-like sound is the dramatic increase in pitch of the modulating tone that has been triggered by smoke from the candle being extinguished. This results in an extreme level of atmospheric particulate matter. I then finish the recording by moving back outside where particulate matter and noise levels are decreased which can be heard in the recording as a sudden drop in pitch of the modulating tone and a decrease in pulsing speed of the pulsating tone. The traffic noise and pink noise also subside as the track fades out.”

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