autistici - modified work environment
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Author: autistici on January 25 2007
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taken from the wandering ear - "Melt - Minnesota Remixed" compilation > link

artists were invited to rework original field recordings from the "Thaw:
Field Recordings from Minnesota" series > link

i worked exclusively with annie baxtor's recordings of "the office" to make this track
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Fantastic work, Autistici! I really love the organic electrical quality your work has. It reminds me a little of Boards of Canada, but I think it's more pure than their work. More elemental and alchemical. Not to compare though, that's a silly thing to do.

I have a very specific question... how do you make those sustained synths sound like they are generating heat and electricity...? THere is almost a granular quality, and a wavering of their sound... it just sounds like it is emmanating and it's an effect I have always wanted to be able to achieve. Any tips?

GREAT WORK!!!!!

in this case

i took some rumbling noises from the office furniture being moved about

i eq'd out the bass

i put the sound through a long reverb

i eq'd some more

i played with the amplitude of the wave - giving it a random "energy"

i then put the sound through a vocoder & eq'd the output

then reverb, subtle delay and compression

thanks so much, man. That is fascinating...

the side to side thing drives me nuts.

those 12k releases u have some excellent spacial location that for some reason isn't in this one...

still good tho! just noticing that.

It's great to hear interesting synthesis being done with acoustic sounds. Nice work.

I agree with JDG about the panning of the scratchy noise. Last month I released a song that did a similar thing. Thanks to useful feedback, I realized the side to side panning was cheap use of the stereo field. It's a lot harder to do, but sounds so much more interesting to have sounds oscillating between the front and back of the virtual space.

I love analog sounds...awesome.

useful feedback

i like the stereo shimmer when I'm listening on speakers - but i agree it is intense and disorientating when heard through headphones

i did find it harder to generate a full quality end result given i was working off a 192 mp3 of office furniture for the source material - the depth of sound was just not there - overall it was an interesting challenge to undertake

Very yummy! I really dig this. Very nice work!

yeah, reminded me of some Boards as well, but far more organic. very well realised and executed I think.
this really took me somewhere.

i agree about the panning in headphones thing.

otherwise it's fantastic. very good abstract representation of sounds in life.


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