soothing sounds.... wide pallette of noise

Cool experiment.  I can relate to the way of misusing audacity (or similar programs). :)

it's good that you ve posted the creativity process in the description, very interesting work

@electromagnesiumslate: Thanks! I'll remember that if i ever get scheduled for one :))

One of the challenges of using stretching software is that it can produce pleasing, even thrilling results with only a little tweaking. Dear old Audacity doesn't stretch sound so much as pull it apart; cracks begin to appear, as in perished rubber.
This wasn't an experiment in the scientific sense, more a bit of "let's see" fun...

A ten second random sample was taken from a random track of a random work. It was down-tempoed (rather than stretched) to produce Track 1, lasting 5 minutes.
A 10-second sample of Track 1 was similarly treated to produce Track 2. This then produced Track 3, and that produced Track 4. Each finished track was 5 minutes long. By this time we are into the original sample by a mathematical factor I was too tired (and mathematically inept) to calculate. Surprisingly the last tracks sound very similar, probably due to software limitations.

What you hear: 10 seconds of each track, in order. Then Track 1, with Track 2 faded in at 1:15.Track 3 is faded in at 1:45 and Track 4 at 2:05. All tracks are now running.
At 3:25 echo is applied to Track 1. At 3:45 delay is applied to Track 2. At 4:15 Reverb is applied to Track 3 and at 4:35 phasing is applied to Track 4. The resulting mess runs to the end, which ends with a faint echo from the delayed track.
All of which seems to prove very little, but shows that even a harsh Industrial noise can contain increasing layers of sound and effects. Can’t wait to play with these sounds in other ways. :)))



Progressive deconstructive fractal noise experiment 1

UK creatives should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4wBWiozyM

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

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Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...

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