When a door closes in front of someone, another one opens somewhere in the same second.  Slowly squeaking. Somewhere in our world or in another corner of the multiverse.  We see doors as a metaphor for human destinies, for possibilities. No one has ever really asked the doors what they think of humans. The sigh of doors is their squeak. When they are content with our fate, they do not squeak. Doors start to creak when they have something to say about the person using them. Metal doors, church gates, front doors, plastic bathroom doors all read our lives and believe me, they all have an ironclad opinion of us. They speak their minds with a thick squeaking sound, opening and closing and singing to us, to us, about who we are.

The SoundHunter Project

Behind Squeaky Doors

Got To Get You Into My Life SOP

Cabbage planers, in Hungarian Káposztagyaluk. In the old days, cabbage was cut by hand with a sharp knife. Cabbage pickling was a communal event, 4-5 neighbours from the village would gather in a kitchen and slice the cabbage there. To process larger quantities, the women used cabbage planers, which were a factory product. The first manual cabbage planers were made by wheelwright craftsmen, and the slicing knife, for example, was made from a scythe blade. Listen to the interesting sounds that the canon of cabbage planers can make.

Sonic of Objects

Cabbage planers - Káposztagyaluk, Act. I.

Wine glasses, in Hungarian borospoharak. Since the 1950s, wine lovers have had the chance to both listen to the music of wine glasses and accurately decode the message of wine. Only in the right glass can wine reveal its values and sing at length about place and time, i.e. the variety, the place of production and the vintage. Wine glasses for Bordeaux, Burgundy, Cabernet, Pinot Noir and Viognier have a completely different sound, not only because they all sing about different types of wine, but also because they are different in shape and glass thickness. The blowing of the wine glasses was initially done exclusively by hand, but the advent of mechanical crystal production in the 1970s made it possible for anyone to listen to the chorus of wine glasses. Cheers!

Wine glasses - Borospoharak, Act. I.

We went to play a little music in the city tunnel, and found lots of awesome and wonderful sounds. Again, we chopped, chewed and minced the sounds we collected and ended up with this.

Granular Up Your Mind

Signs from the tunnel

Signs From The Tunnel

We went to a rural airport to collect sounds. We listened to the roar of the wind over the noise of the engines and the whirring of the propellers.  With the hissing of the foundry equipment behind us, we boarded a small plane to exterminate mosquitoes. We could feel the taste of milk chocolate suddenly bitter in our mouths from all the bass.

Sonologist at the airport

Sonologist At The Airport

We were inspired by the simplicity of the kalimba and the beauty of its sound. We took half a dozen kalimbas with pickups and started playing them. We chopped up the recorded sound and started kneading it with a granular synth and some tape delay effects, and then we baked out a new instrument for the lost generations: the gralimba.

Gralimba

You have to know how to sigh. It's genetically encoded in us, you're always longing for something or someone.  When we want to be somewhere else, we sigh shortly while imagining the place or recalling the beauty of the landscape.  When we daydream about another person who was once in our arms, we sigh long sighs. We live our lives in between the short and long sighs, but we never stop because we are unable not to feel nostalgic about our fragile existence.

Always Just Sighing

fresou

A new test with the latest developments in the NOISE/VCF and LFO modules of Heritage Modular polyphonic synth.
Created with four LFO modules that modulate various parameters: VCF frequency, resonance, noise color, and amplitude.
Plus some live manipulations on certain knobs.
At the output, the MULTI-FX module in Zita reverb mode.
Played on eight independent voices, so with 8x NOISE and 32x LFO.
It's a palindrome; I layered two tracks: the original and the reversed copy.
https://www.heritagesynthesizers.fr/

Palindrome

Dark Ambient Music inspired by the writings of HP Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos cult. Be scared and enjoy!

CTHULHU MYTHOS - COLLECTOR OF SECRETS

Listen to my other volumes as well:

soundcloud.com/drdonathvol8/tracks
soundcloud.com/soundhuntervol1/tracks
soundcloud.com/drdonathvol7/tracks
soundcloud.com/drdonathvol6/tracks
soundcloud.com/drdonathvol5/tracks
soundcloud.com/drdonathvol4/tracks
soundcloud.com/drdonathvol3/tracks
soundcloud.com/drdonathvol2/tracks

Dr. don Ath is a Hungarian sonicinstaller, sound artist, lawyer and journalist, founder of SynthXLoop Audio Arts.
Since 2020, his sonic installations can be heard mainly in art exhibitions. He regularly works on request with experimental visual artists, advises as a lawyer on copyright law and is legal advisor to several art societies.

Signs From The Tunnel

Dr. don Ath - Vol. IX.