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Variations on a theme. One pattern from an Alesis HR16 processed using the drum destruction glitching patchbay.
There is no swing programmed on this pattern. Its just the circuit bent effects doing weird things to the sounds and making it groove.

Circuit bent Alesis HR16 groove loop

Not sure this will be enjoyable to many people but:

These are the sounds of aquatic organisms recorded with a hydrophone via a Hologram Microcosm Granular/Looper/Delay/Pitch shifting pedal.  The Microcosm manipulated the sounds of aquatic organisms to create some mad soundscapes.

Recorded with: 

Sound Devices MixPre3 mk2
Aquarian Audio H2D Hydrophone
Hologram Microcosm
at Cliffe Pools, Kent, 15/2/2024

Hydrophone to MixPre3, the output of the MixPre went to the Microcosm and the output of that back into the MixPre3.

Pond Songs 2

**Sound is compresses and quite because of soundcloud,SoundCloud recommends exporting at 48kHz when they know it ruins the audio that people work tirelessly on*
Caradon Hill Cornwall UK
Wind and pylons: interference and resonance
Sounds in the wires

Sound Devices 302 D mixer
Zoom F3
X6 contact mics

I harbour a profound appreciation for pylons and wires. It seems to me that pylons are a great example of multifaceted noise.
The Sonic noise above my head out of reach fizzing and crackle in the ether as high voltages zip and zap along the cables. It’s a noisy sound. crispy crackly textures, at once constant and moving, static and dynamic. 

The wind and rain at Caradon hill as every visit are intense and unrelenting, fog obscures the towers, sheep and landscape, closing down my visual field and opening up my auditory perception. I attach my contact mics directly to the wire as the wind whistles off the wires and send vibrational drones that I record and listen to over hours attuning to the rhythms, harmonies and dissonance vibrations.

The natural frequencies of the wire are determined by the integer harmonics of the fundamental. In very long wires such as the wires here reach at their pinnacle 780ft which are also very thick the fundamental is well below one Hertz. As I listen to wind, and tension of the wires as the wind contorts them creating higher harmonic frequencies which fall into the auditory range of humans (I am interested how the sheep and birds perceive these sounds). The very high harmonics become so crowded they cease to have discrete frequencies but rather tend to beat together, creating second-order frequencies of lower pitch. the length of the wire a family of interacting segments, each with its own fundamental within the auditory range sing in the wind. There is a vocal-like quality of the wires vibrating in the wind containing the sound of numerous ‘voices’, each competing for harmonic dominance.

The method of fixing the contact mics is an art in itself with  no single best method. Rather, attunment and knowledge of wing and weather patterns in which different conditions require different methods, which are established by rre-visits and experimentation.

Caradon Hill Transmission Mast Cornwall UK

Headphones Recommended
I attached a pair of 35mm Contact Mics (via my DUAL OPA Impedance Buffer) to a metal fence at Gum Grove Park in Seal Beach and waited for some birds to drop by. I was mainly curious if the vibrations from the bird movement and calls passing through the fence would be enough to drive a signal to the Dual OPA Impedance Buffer, it was. 

No traditional mics used in this recording. Just Contact Mics.

2x 35mm Contact Mics
Dual OPA Impedance Buffer
MixPre 6 II

Birds on a Fence - contact mic recording

Composed on an acid trip when I was 17. Performed by my high school orchestra at every concert my senior year.

Andante For String Orchestra

Unedited segment of the May 11 captures of the class X gemomagnetic that rocked the skies with so many auroras.  Returning yesterday, May 13, to the open meadow location where this unedited recording took place, dooning the hadphones and flpping the switch, there was nowhere near the amount of activity as on May 11, underlining again the uniqueness of the event itself which astronomer's are saying is the strongest in 21 years and comparable to the Carrington event. So happy to have been able to hear this and to share it with you all. Photo lifted from FB contact Bbob Drake.

VLF 769 May 11, 2024

Whiskwithpreamp1

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POTAR is the noisy alter-ego of Michael Winchester; sound designer, instrument builder, and field recordist.

Birds on a Fence - contact mic recording

Winchester Sound (POTAR)

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