On The Road (of noise)

alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Sat May 17, 2008 1:24 am

In another forum a nice gut, called MrKnobs, regarding some bit/frequency rates discussions, said that he had the most boring sound samples made for his profession, that are recordings of flat tires running on different pavements and similar stuff. Maybe as a joke I asked him for some samples of those files, and he sent me them, 4 cuts 16bits/44.1khz wave files. Then he commented that he found my rerquest a bit strange.... I rapidly made a track, in which the only sound sources used are those 4 snippets of test recordings done by MrKnobs. I've transposed, frequency shifted, filtered, sequenced, delayed, frequency modulated and quite heavily manipulated those apparently flat and boring sounds. No other samples, no other oscillators, except for LFO modulation of filters and slow ramps for the FleXor sequencers.

Field recordings by MrKnobs:

http://www.alfonsodamora.it/Demos/OldAsphalt.mp3
http://www.alfonsodamora.it/Demos/ImpTube.mp3
http://www.alfonsodamora.it/Demos/PorousPavement.mp3
http://www.alfonsodamora.it/Demos/Concrete.mp3

The same stuff after a bit of work:

http://www.alfonsodamora.it/Demos/On_The_Road.mp3

zangsta · Post by **zangsta** » Sat May 17, 2008 2:40 am

Great work, very creative !

And quite educational as well, goes to show how far one can take sound with
the tools available to most of us...

Jörgen

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Sun May 18, 2008 12:59 am

that really cool .

you are using granular stuff as well?

alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Sun May 18, 2008 1:47 am

hifiboom wrote:that really cool .

you are using granular stuff as well?

Thx

No, the thing you hear as granular is the FleXor SH-1 Destroy filter.

iSiStOy · Post by **iSiStOy** » Sun May 18, 2008 6:17 am

Woooop!

How impressive!

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Sun May 18, 2008 7:36 am

Talk about giving something a litle life,

My Grandson unfortunately likes to watch the Teletubbies, whch means I must, and as painful as it is the only thing making it bearable is the SFX / music / foley artist that takes material and gives it a new twist.

I never heard such soulful noise.

Tricks of the trade.

pollux · Post by **pollux** » Mon May 19, 2008 6:47 am

XITE-1/4LIVE wrote:Talk about giving something a litle life,

My Grandson unfortunately likes to watch the Teletubbies, whch means I must, and as painful as it is the only thing making it bearable is the SFX / music / foley artist that takes material and gives it a new twist.

I never heard such soulful noise.

Tricks of the trade.

You should try to do something similar to what alphonso did, but using the 4 teletubbies' voices samples as sound sources..

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Mon May 19, 2008 8:23 am

Please............................It is torturous enough.

I did like Mr.Rodgers Neighborhood though. Sure he seemed like a child molester, but the live piano tracks were phenominal.

I could just hear the Police Cruisers Loudspeaker at the park when they spot him...............................Sir, please drop the candy bar, and step away from the child.

This was a great audio example though, of what one can do in Scope with any source material, or very little.

Lima · Post by **Lima** » Mon May 19, 2008 10:42 am

Wow! Thrilling! Fantastic! Bravo!

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Thu May 22, 2008 4:59 am

Interesting music.

grappa · Post by **grappa** » Thu May 22, 2008 1:27 pm

Man I have trouble gettin a £3k guitar to sound good and you get this out of four flat tyre samples - Jeez...

Fantastic!

Post by **garyb** » Thu May 22, 2008 7:50 pm

nice, nice, nice....

MikeRaphone · Post by **MikeRaphone** » Fri May 23, 2008 5:06 am

That's great man!!!