Blue Pig meets a rainbow.
Little Pig flies to school.
Joseph Weisnewski- stories and music.
Ailsa Weisnewski- cover art
© 2021 Joseph Weisnewski. All rights reserved.

PIGTOWN CHAPTER 5,  BLUE PIG AND LITTLE PIG

Big Pig gets cold and needs help. Also, Big Pig and the Orange Rain.

Joseph Weisnewski stories and music.
Ailsa Weisnewski cover art.
© Copyright 2021 weisnewski all rights reserved

PIG TOWN CHAPTER 8,  BIG PIG GETS COLD

I recorded our local Pipistrelle bats from my back garden last night - both 'common' and 'soprano' varieties.  It wasn't until I listened to my recordings this morning that I realised I had also captured the sound of a passing Noctule bat too! A real delight to hear one flying high overhead.  Bats make sounds too high in frequency for humans to hear - so the recordings need to be processed - usually in one of two ways.  Hetrondyne mixing - to shift the pitch of the sounds down in frequency to something that humans can hear. Or, 'time expansion' - basically stretching out the 'best bits' of the sounds in the time domain by slowing them right down.  Time expansion is similar to what is sometimes now called 'granular processing'. I used some of my 'music processing' equipment to process these sounds - once I had made a small library of the bat sound samples that I liked.  I turned it into a 10 minute 'symphony' using a variety of tape loops, pitch-shifting, granular synthesis, delays and a little bit of reverb.  I'm still experimenting with the mix between 'light touch' processing of my field sound recordings and something a bit more 'musical' - You might hear a hint of  a I–V–vi–IV chord progression of the Noctule towards the end of this symphony!  Recorded using an an Echo Touch Pro 2 microphone at 384 kHz (samples per second).  Equipment used for sound processing included a Chase Bliss Habit and Mood MK II, together with a Hologram Electronics Microcosm looper 'effects pedal'. Some reverb was added via both the Mood and Microcosm. No DAW was used - I mixed it all 'live' from the clips chopped on my Koala sampler. Simples! 
Photo of a nearby tree, taken in 720nm infrared.

Bat Symphony

A large, empty, aircraft hangar. Building 135 on Waterbeach barracks, Cambridge, UK.  I had intended to record a passing thunderstorm but the forecast storm never arrived - only some wind and rain, the large hangar doors moving in the breeze, roosting pigeons, corvids and other assorted wildlife. 

Binaural recording - A pair of MKH8020 mics in a dummy head 'Pammy' to a SD-MixPre3. 24/48.

July 2019

With thanks to Urban & Civic for permission to access the site and record.

Building 135 - When Nature Takes Over

Chapter One in Pigtown. We meet Peter Pig and hear four stories about him.
Peter Pig,
Peter Pig's Sport's Car,
Peter Pig's New Car,
Peter Pig's Airplane.
Stories and music by Joseph Weisnewski,
Cover art by Ailsa Weisnewski.
 © copyright 2020 all rights reserved

PIGTOWN CHAPTER 1,  FOUR STORIES ABOUT PETER PIG

More adventures in Pig Town. We meet Molasses Pig and hear all about the Big Pig Town Race.
Joseph Weisnewski- music and stories.
Ailsa Weisnewski- cover art.
© Copyright 2020. All rights reserved

PIGTOWN CHAPTER 2,  MOLASSES PIG AND THE TOWN RACE

PIGTOWN CHAPTER 3,  TINY PIG AND ANT

In Chapter Four we meet Blue Pig and Freddie Friendly Pig. Blue Pig receives big help from the Magic Butterfly and the Magic Ladybug.

Story and music by Joseph Weisnewski
Cover Art by Ailsa Weisnewski
© 2021 Joseph Weisnewski all rights reserved

PIGTOWN CHAPTER 4,  BLUE PIG AND THE MAGIC BUTTERFLY

These are stories I made up for my granddaughter as I tucked her into bed at night. They are also for my grandson and all children who like fun stories.

PIG TOWN CHAPTER 8, BIG PIG GETS COLD

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