Here’s an interesting find on SoundCloud. A guy named Shin Ichiro A from Tokyo is posting audio clips titled “test model 002″, “multi 001″ and “65.406Hz + theta frequency”. I love audio that propels my mind into Stanley Kubrick space. I hope Sia (as he also calls himself) posts more!
65.406Hz + theta frequency by sia
“sia has 2 sound projects, Ru:Ri:Ro and Field Noise Records. Ru:Ri:Ro is Experimental/Ambient.” – Shin Ichiro A
Shin Ichiro A: SoundCloud and MySpace
photo credit: dekstop
via Raytrace
This entry was written by , posted on August 26, 2009 at 11:29 am, filed under sounds and tagged Japan, Shin Ichiro A, sounds, Tokyo. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
There’s nothing more pathetic than Polar Bear’s drowning because we melted too much the world’s Arctic ice shelf. Could buying a ReFill for Propellerhead’s Reason help? New Atlantis Audio will be release ReFills of which a percent of the sale will go to charity. Upcoming charities include the Elevate Hope Foundation, Shriners Hospitals for Children and the WWF (World Wildlife Fund).
“Hi Oliver, We are a new sound design company who’ve just released our first product, “Polar Elements”, a ReFill for Propellerhead Reason 4. Our mission is to provide musicians with unique, high-quality affordable audio products, while raising money for worthy causes which are important to ourselves and our users. A portion of the proceeds of this sale with be going to help protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Northern Alaska.” New Atlantis Audio, newatlantisaudio.com
The first ReFill from New Atlantis Audio is called Polar Elements. It requires Reason 4, contains 50 Combinator patches and has an introductory price of $5.00. Interestingly the ReFill was created to induce visions of the Polar region. You can hear an audio sample here: newatlantisaudio.com/reason-refill-polar-elements
This entry was written by , posted on February 23, 2009 at 11:24 am, filed under Propellerhead Reason, sounds and tagged New Atlantis Audio, Polar Elements, Propellerhead, Propellerhead Reason, Refill, sounds. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I had to go to the Social Security office in downtown Brooklyn. I took the 4 Train back into NYC. I feel at home when I hear, “Stand clear of the closing doors please.”.
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Julie and I needed to waste some time before we met friends for Julie’s birthday so we stopped by Guitar Center to visit my friend Dan who works there. You can hear some Reggae in the background. I think all music stores around the world sound incredible similar.
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My friend Leslie (on the right) needed to get a new piercing so we stopped by one of New York’s famous Tattoo parlors Adorned. I like the song that’s playing. Does anyone know what it is? Buzz buzz!
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Time for the celebration so we head to Supper. It’s a great Italian restaurant owned by Frank Prisinzano who became well known in NYC with one of his other spots simply called “Franks”. The food was great but as you can hear it was well loud. My poor musicians ears would have preferred a much quieter place but this is Manhattan on a Friday night.
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All the recordings were done on my iPhone using the Griffin iTalk application. You can download and use these recordings for whatever you like. Here’s a download link for the 16bit aiff files. Included is a bonus audio file recorded on the F-train:
http://www.wiretotheear.com/audio/NYC_Day.zip
NYC Day by Oliver Chesler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.wiretotheear.com.
Related post: Free audio recordings from the Berlin S-Bahn.
This entry was written by , posted on January 10, 2009 at 9:31 am, filed under iPhone, sounds and tagged Adorned, Griffin, iPhone, iTalk, New York, NYC, sounds, Supper. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
When someone with the last name “Ovenbröd” sends you an email you either laugh or pay attention. I did both and my prize is a nice bunch of noisey, glitchy circuit bent loops from Berlin. This gift of loop was not just created for me alone so here I share the news of this download for all to have. Head over to www.mimu.eu to grab some itchy clicky goodness.
85 x .wav-loops (124bpm) of broken, smoothly glitched, circuit-bent 4/4 idm/mnml/noize- and elektro-beatloops. Also this file is password-protected just to avoid unauthorized distribution, simply leave a comment with your correct e-mail-adress, then WAIT a bit and we’ll get back to you. your comment needs to get approved first before it gets published. comments of donators (see the donation-paypal-cloud on the menu) might be handled privileged. a happy new year, yours, maria ovenbröd & der einmeier – www.mimu.eu
Direct link to the post where you can leave a comment and get your download password: click here
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This entry was written by , posted on January 5, 2009 at 3:08 pm, filed under sounds and tagged Berlin, circuit bend, free, glitch, mimu, sounds. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Another Tool for the Box – Cords in the Kicks from lovecapacitor on Vimeo.
Here’s an interesting tutorial on how to specifically tune two Operator Oscillators to specific frequencies to make a deeper kick drum.
“73.4 HZ is the note D… 49 Hz is G1″ – lovecapacitor
More info about the video creator: myspace.com/lovecapacitor
This entry was written by , posted on December 17, 2008 at 4:19 pm, filed under Ableton Live, sounds, video and tagged ableton, chords, kick drum, lovecapacitor, Operator, sounds. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
How many times have you though about making a complete musical piece out of one sound or with one instrument? I know it’s crossed my mind a hundred times over the years. One of my favorite blogs RetroThing has a video and audio clip from sound designer Diego Stocco (famous for recording a burning piano). The video shows a little stapler and the few sounds it can make. The audio is a complete composition Diego created using just those stapler sounds. Check it out: click here
photo credit: InsideGift
This entry was written by , posted on November 28, 2008 at 2:08 pm, filed under music, sounds, video and tagged Diego Stocco, RetroThing, sounds, stapler. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
What is a sound that every computer owner hates? Come on the answer is easy right? It’s the sound of a hard disc crashing! Data Recovery Services from Canada has full page of hard disc crashing audio samples. Hear the last breaths of Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung, Hitachi, Toshiba, Fujitsu and Quantum drives.
“These are some typical sounds we hear in our data recovery lab. If your drive makes noises like these please fill out our simple evaluation form to get a fast quote on data recovery services.” – datacent.com
Needless to say this is a strong reminder to back-up. Imagine loosing the only copy of a song you created? I use Time Machine and also SuperDuper.
To hear the sound of your data dying: click here
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This entry was written by , posted on November 15, 2008 at 2:43 am, filed under sounds and tagged hard drive, sounds. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
What if there was a website where you could upload a song and then add more cowbell to it? Wouldn’t that be amazing? What if you could listen to tons of other songs people uploaded that they added more cowbell to? Well you can! Head over to morecowbell.dj for all the goodness.
“More cowbell” is an American pop culture catch phrase originally derived from an April 8, 2000 Saturday Night Live comedy sketch about the recording of the song “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” by Blue Öyster Cult. The sketch featured guest host Christopher Walken as music producer Bruce Dickinson and Will Ferrell as fictional cowbell player Gene Frenkle. In the television special Saturday Night Live: 101 Most Unforgettable Moments, this sketch is moment number five. – www.morecowbell.dj
Here’s the original skit on Saturday Night Live. At first I thought this was going to be stupid but I admit this had me cracking up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhSkRHXTKlw
photo credit: Daniel Y. Go
This entry was written by , posted on September 11, 2008 at 12:17 am, filed under Uncategorized, sounds and tagged Blue Öyster Cult, cowbell, funny, sounds. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Over at the Ableton forums Kent Williams has posted a link to a nice set of Roland TR-727 samples he recorded using four different methods. I own a TR-707 and love it’s sound and design. It’s quite a lot of fun flicking the little mixer’s channels up and down.
The TR-727 is, of course, the ‘Latin’ version of the TR-707 — same hardware, but Latin percussion samples instead of a trap set.
Many sample sets have been made of the TR-727, starting with the ‘Music Machines’ set at Hyperreal.org, which is nearly 10 years old, and 16-bit only. see http://machines.hyperreal.org/manufacturers/Roland/TR-727/
I was inspired to do this set by the guys at Goldbaby — http://www.goldbaby.co.nz — who have done some obsessively loving sampling jobs on many old drum boxes, through a wide variety of gear.
I don’t have as snazzy a studio as GoldBaby but I think I’ve done pretty well with what I’ve got. – Kent Williams
His recording method is included in the readme.txt file that accompaniments the sample pack. To download click here: 727_Samples.zip
This entry was written by , posted on August 10, 2008 at 8:20 am, filed under hardware, sounds and tagged drum machine, roland, sounds. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Yesterday I took a trip to Ikea in Berlin. To get from Prenzlauer Berg to Spandau takes about thirty minutes on the S-Bahn. I had my camera with me which also takes decent video. However, it wasn’t visual imagery I 
was after. I hit record but left the camera’s lens cap on. I was only after audio recordings.
There are a myriad of hot flash recorders on the market but I used what I had with me and I think the recordings sound great. Another advantage of recording this way is people aren’t really aware of what your doing. If I had a Sony PCM-D1 in my hand people may not speak naturally. I’m planning on using some of these recordings on my next album but your free to use them too. Remember it’s not the sounds, it’s how you use them!
The audio player will play each sample in succession:
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You can download the 24bit Wavs by clicking here:
Berlin_S-Bahn-24bit_Wav.zip
Berlin_S-Bahn by Oliver Chesler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.wiretotheear.com.
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This entry was written by , posted on August 6, 2008 at 2:45 am, filed under sounds and tagged Berlin, Hauptbahnhof, S-Bahn, samples, Sony PCM-D1, sounds, train. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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