Name: Oy Gevalt Elvis by Tunes by Bondy
Duration: 3 min 47 s
Description: Finished off this dreamlike ambient track I wrote years ago with some scoring software. The original version sounded pretty different. This version was created with Sonar X3.

Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford and author of Sonic Wonderland, has discovered the world record for the ‘Longest Echo’. The 1970 Guinness Book of Records is the last claim for the ‘longest echo’, when the solid-bronze doors of the Hamilton Mausoleum in Scotland slammed shut, it took 15 seconds for the sound to die away to silence. In researching his new book Sonic Wonderland: A Scientific Odyssey of Sound Trevor Cox discovered a place where the sound echoes around for a full minute longer, smashing the previous record.

Trevor Cox travelled to the oil storage complex at Inchindown, near Invergordon, Scotland. These reservoirs supplied the naval anchorage in the Cromarty Firth at the bottom of the hill. The tanks were constructed in great secrecy amid concerns about the strengthening of Germany’s armed forces during the 1930s and the threat posed by long-range bombers, which is why the tanks were dug deep into the hillside. The vast complex took three years to complete. His guide was Allan Kilpatrick, an archaeological investigator for the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.

Trevor had to enter the tank through one of the 18 inch diameter oil pipes because there are no doors. The tank could hold 25.5 million litres of fuel and has walls 45cm thick. The space is about twice the length of a football pitch, 9m wide and 13.5 metres high.

Allan fired a pistol loaded with blanks about a third of the way into the storage tank, and Trevor recorded the response picked up by the microphones about a third of the way from the far end. This is a standard technique used in concert hall acoustics; old black-and-white photographs show a gun being fired on the stage of the Royal Festival Hall when they tested the acoustics back in the 1950s.

Sonic Wonderland - World's Longest Echo

Finished off this dreamlike ambient track I wrote years ago with some scoring software. The original version sounded pretty different. This version was created with Sonar X3.

Oy Gevalt Elvis

Train Music Full

quick demo 28/7/23

sarah's got barista powers, decaf long black problem solver
asks the matter, we're waiting for a call

steph's at work her belly's aching, 
haven't texted this much since we were dating,
all day back and forth, we're praying for, we're bracing for a change

seven lonely seasons trying, both been dreaming of the call
she was sewing I was strumming we've been crying
hoping soon we'll meet our baby boy

stood her up our second date, I always had to keep her waiting
tried to lose her trust but she don't break

and at sixteen weeks we thought we'd lost him
learnt how much we really want it
and what it is to trust
and what it is to trust in the unknown

on the fourteenth day of autumn
half past five she finally got the call
no more cycles, no more needles every morning
maybe soon we'll meet our baby boy

when we get to glimpse a future
it shakes up all the stories that we tell
bears reminding this is only our beginning
and soon we'll get to meet our baby boy

waiting

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Maker of insanely catchy tunes with a lyrical sensibility sharp enough to slice atoms

Oy Gevalt Elvis

Tunes by Bondy

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