Electronic Music In The Ocean

[Redruth]

it's so amazing to me the similarities between some of the calls of creatures in the sea and sounds found in electronic music's.

 

someone really should make a decent concept album based completely on samples taken from nature (or just the sea). sea creatures

have particularly lovely tones they emit.

 

now i know that many artists have used various sounds from the sea as aspects of their music's-but what i would like to suggest

is that the whole structure of an album (whether it be ambient or more beat oriented) be constructed using these sounds as source material.

a concept album-not unlike the work matmos did using sounds from surgery on their album 'a chance to cut is a chance to cure'.

 

 

these seal calls are incredible!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbLynJJzkE0

 

dolphins are of course an amazing pop + click sound.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W2hXZM6iXM&feature=related

 

then there are the whales.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo2bVbDtiX8&feature=related

[Guest Babar]

In the first video the sound's pitch is decreasing. It sounds like a Doppler effect or something. Isn't water a dispersive material for sound ?(= waves with different frequencies don't travel at the same speed)

[Redruth]

oval's album systemisch is very akin to these types of sounds

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRvbg62zX3w&feature=related

[Guest disparaissant]

Thread title makes me think of Drexciya.

[Guest all_purpose_sandpaper]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejJnoyN8V6g&feature=fvw

[oscillik]

Thread title makes me think of Drexciya.

was hoping that someone would mention Drexicya.

thank you.

[Guest disparaissant]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9y9Snt1g5E

THA OCEAN!

 

Also, I was in a band with this guy who liked nothing more than playing with an eBow, a slide, and heavy delay. He turned that guitar into a dying whale, it was amazing.

[Redruth]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9y9Snt1g5E

 

i remember this drexciya piece poping up once before-it is awe inspiring-everything about it overwhelms the senses.

 

Also, I was in a band with this guy who liked nothing more than playing with an eBow, a slide, and heavy delay. He turned that guitar into a dying whale, it was amazing.

 

this is interesting-i'd be curious to hear any finished product you all might have come up with? do you have any recordings?

[chenGOD]

for some more info on the leopard seals:

http://www.antarctica2000.net/mcmurdo/journal6/12_4_96.html

[Guest disparaissant]

@ troon (dont feel like quoting you quoting me)

unfortunately, i don't. this was like 7 years ago when i was in college. i lost most of the stuff we recorded in a hard drive crash. he might have some, but we've not been in contact for a while. really ought to track him down. tbh none of it was all that GOOD (it was him on guitar, me playing my old DX7 [rip] and drum machines) but i have never heard anyone make that same sound from a guitar.

[Redruth]

i lost most of the stuff we recorded in a hard drive crash.

 

hope this thread inspires you somehow-you should try to recreate the sound yourself with the same effects.

do you have a guitar or access to a guitar?

[Redruth]

these takes me to the bottom of the ocean. come to think of it-this entire album drags me down miles below the surface

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSV3Tf0gVPk&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J2gv80ttK8&feature=related