Bear Trap Convolved

This track was inspired by my grandfather, nonno Gaspare.  He played first trumpet in the village band and - something I only discovered last summer - taught music for free in the village he was from.  I wish I could’ve got to know him. This track includes field recordings of the village band playing combined with my own interactions.


Bandstand (Nonno Gaspare I Wanted to Meet You)

Wolves hunt down and kill their prey. A Wild boar in this case. You can also hear Red Deer.
(Vargar jagar vildsvin och dödar ett av dom).

Here is the story before the recording starts.

I was out photographing/recording. It was late, but the full moon helped lighting up my surroundings. I had the recorder in rec/pause and my headphones on, so all sounds around me was amplified like I usually have. Since I was trying to photograph animals. I was camouflaged. I rarely use a hide. Suddenly I heard that the ducks, lapwings and other birds to the left of me, flew up in the air worried about something. I looked in that direction with my binocular and then I saw two wolves coming in my direction. They were about 200m from me. The female (smaller) was about 50m ahead of the male. She stopped when she was about 40m from me a little to the left. She probably “sensed” that I was there… She sat down and looked around. The male wolf came straight at me since he was to the right of the female from my view. He stopped at about 30m from me. He stared at me or in my direction for 5 minutes… I was leaning to the left in a not so comfort position so I said to myself, please go now… my back hurts, but he didn’t. Instead, he lay down in the grass… and he continued staring at me (or my not camouflaged mic). I was completely still and after a few minutes he started to look around instead. The female passed him and lay down further away to the right of me. After 10-15 minutes he joined her. They changed positions a few times and seemed to be in no hurry. Then the female started to target a red deer bull. She crawled on her stomach closer and closer. The male followed about 30m behind her. She got closer and closer and when she had about 50m left to the red deer she got in to full attack. The male wolf followed and they both attacked the red deer bull. The deer defended himself really well with his big horns. He attacked the wolves so they had to back off a few times. The wolves continued their attack from two directions for a while, but then they gave up and lay down in the grass. After a while they tried again, but the deer still defended himself really well. He didn’t make the mistake to try and run. They gave up again and the walked away to the edge of the field and lay down just inside the forest. After about 20 minutes I heard a familiar sound. Wild boar heard was incoming…

Here my posted recording at soundcloud starts, since there was just breathing sounds and sounds when wolves and deer move in the grass previously, so not much to listen to.

Wolves' wild boar hunting (Canis lupus lupus)

The final studio recording of the 2012 Digital Studio Media Project, "The Unwanted Orchestra"

Every sound and note uttered is created by or played through homemade circuit bent instruments and toys.  

An original composition made up of continuous play tracks.  Consider this our EP.

The Unwanted Orchestra of 2012 is Toby Carpenter, Nick Humphrey, Steve Oxnard, and Saptarshi Pal

The Unwanted Orchestra [Studio Recording]

Monday, 25th June, 2012. 

A thunder storm was predicted, so I set up my Telinga SSM and Olympus LS-100 recorder just inside a screened door. I set the recording level low, but even so the nearest lightning strikes (about 100 feet away) completely overwhelmed the system.

The recording begins while the storm is still about ten minutes away....

There are several phases - first, there is distant thunder as the wind begins to strengthen. Then the thunder gets nearer and the rain begins. Next, the storm literally moves overhead, with several strikes within a few hundred feet of the house.

This is followed by hail, and then more wind and rain, as the storm slowly recedes to the east.

Thunder storm

the 3rd movement from the 6 movement piece Water, for 4 harps and voice.

Snowstorm

This song holds the Guinness World Record for most vocal edits in a single recording. It has 6,178 edits all done completely by hand. 

BT - Somnambulist (Simply Being Loved) Acapella

Sound: Designer, Engineer, Mixer, Geek. Max/MSP slave.


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