This recording was made by shining a light through a small model sail ship measuring less than 6 inches tall and positioned in front of a fan.. as the wind flapped the tiny sails, and made the ropes sing in sympathy the resulting modulated light was captured with eight positions of the photo-sensor carefully placed to pickup the edges of the moving surfaces.  The resulting audio from the sensor was then equalised, mixed and panned in stereo.  All of the sounds in this recording were made with this optical setup.  No microphones were used to make this recording and no reverb was used. 

Concept, Sound Design & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2022.

Sound of Light Through A Model Sail Ship In The Wind (Optical Sound Experiment)

D.A.Wilson is an Electronic Engineer, Sound Designer & Vintage Synth Specialist with a particular interest in combining vintage tube, classic analog and modern digital technologies working as a synth engineer looking after a very considerable amount of vintage studio equipment for Will Gregory (Goldfrapp / Moog Ensemble) and a number of other internationally celebrated electronic musicians and producers.  Having undertaken several major restorations and produced custom electronic designs for a number of major artists including Jean-Michel Jarre, Dani is also known for fully restoring two out of the world's four remaining 1979 Crumar GDS and partially restoring 1938 Novachord 346 (the only known operational Novachord in the UK) to playable order along with developing and producing the new Elfin family of 8-bit polysynths and the popular MIDI Front Panel Animator (FPA), Filter Defeat Module (FDM) and XD-280 Drive Emulator upgrades for the AKAI S612 sampler.

Demos of the S612 Upgrades in Action: 

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/sets/hideaway-studios-s612-front


Hideaway Studio Kontakt Sound libraries may be purchased directly from: 
https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/hideaway-studios
 

..and a nice introduction by Cory Pelizzari to the Hideaway Studio Kontakt Libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-C7a3ChC9U&feature=emb_title


For more on releases from Hideaway Studio for Kontakt please visit the blog at:  www.hideawaystudio.net