Happy me at the mastering studio

Jonas og Morten

Mastering Engineer Morten Bue

Ras and Jonas listening intensely... upwards

Last sunday there was a brass band playing in our neighbouring garden, mostly old salvation army songs. Here's a snippet I captured and slowed down by a factor of 10... makes for a nice ambient track. This will probably be the last I'll do of these, time to get a little more creative with alternative processing.
aah frels mig - hurtigt

This summer holiday I took some essential travel gear. Zoom H4, Yamaha Guitarlele and my iPhone 3G.

I really wish that the iPhone could use the Zoom as an audio interface... but alas the usb connection kit only works with the iPad and not the iPhones. Even just having access to the audio files on the H4 would be great.

OdeToSmaaland

Around the forrest cabin in Småland I made a number of field recordings with the handheld recorder. Percussion samples of objects not intended as percussion instruments, such as wood, firewood, old rusten barrels, lake (YES! It is possible to play percussion on a lake, just try it!), wood claps etc. Later I turned these into drum racks in ableton and started building a rhythm only using these sounds. Martin inspired me to make the clips in ableton with different lenghts and not following the bar lenght:

The effect is that fairly simple rhytmic patterns are creating a quite complex rhythm when playing together. Of course I added the Forest Reverb from this post.

If you like this kind of playing percussion on "non-percussion" instruments you should check this out:

Jeep Techno on YouTube

Next exercise must be to sample tones from field recordings and create a piece of music with that....Coming up!

Just a product of last weeks late nights/early mornings of jet lag.... using a freeware moog synth called ASynth, the demo of the Aether reverb by Galbanum and some distortion from good old Audio Damage. Arranged and mixed in Ableton.

long churn

ForrestReverbTest

Spending 2 weeks in a swedish 1860 lodge out in the woods in Småland constantly reminded me of the lack of the background noise of the city. There's quite another kind of ambience in the woods. Each tree and stone scatters sound and creates a dark and atmospheric forest reverb. So with my little H2 handheld recorder and two pieces of wood I recorded a number of forest reverb impulse responses.

Listen to the effect in action (using LAConvolver) below the image. Download the impulse responses (24bit stereo waw-files).

I'm off on holiday, but for those of you still working hard, I made a samples set of my guzheng, played with a bow. Yes, yes... Sonic Couture have already made an excellent Guzheng sample library. In fact Rasmus bought it after he messed about with my Guzheng and has made several nice bits of music with it, which may pop up on this blog sometime in the future... if we all just poke him enough times.

This sample set is kinda different... comprised of short staccato bows with looped layers of gentle mallet playing. Therefore this is of course not a realistic Guzheng sample library (for that, get the Sonic Couture). On the other hand, the samples below have a little more sass and if you have Kontakt, you could always extract whatever samples tickle your funny bones.

Enjoy some samples of a Guzheng played the Atlastop way (right click to download.... warning it's 154mb!)

muffled voices not yet reaching for reason

There's an interesting collective sampling project going on over at the Music of Sound blog. They are crowd sourcing samples of doors.

It's gonna be quite extensive, more than 1000 sample.

So I've signed on, but never quite heard back. However I went ahead and did the recordings, and I figured I could put the samples up here. Download my doors

It's a 160mb file and spectacularly uninteresting to anyone who doesn't do sound editing for film or TV. All part of the service around here

I seem to record this song whenever the family travels out of town without me.
local news predicts collapsing horizons
Done with stretched and effected Guzheng