Album that was made from one 9 second sample.
- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1313 posts since 29 Mar, 2002 from Salt Lake City, Utah - U.S.A.
I've been trying to find this album for probably 10+ years. Help me track it down.
+++ The details are sketchy but this is how I remember it +++
Years ago a magazine (Keyboard magazine?) did a review of an album that was made entirely from 9 seconds of sampling the sound a drinking fountain. So like they'd take the sample and shape it into a kick drum, then take the sample and make a bell sound, take the SAME sample and make fx etc.... I've been wanting to hear this album for a long time now, but worry I will never figure out what it's called.
Does anyone know what the album was called or where I might find it?
+++ The details are sketchy but this is how I remember it +++
Years ago a magazine (Keyboard magazine?) did a review of an album that was made entirely from 9 seconds of sampling the sound a drinking fountain. So like they'd take the sample and shape it into a kick drum, then take the sample and make a bell sound, take the SAME sample and make fx etc.... I've been wanting to hear this album for a long time now, but worry I will never figure out what it's called.
Does anyone know what the album was called or where I might find it?
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- KVRAF
- 15508 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
I am intrigued. Google does not help.
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- KVRAF
- 2583 posts since 26 Aug, 2002 from here
I know Herbert did albums like that, but not with a fountain. There was one done with a sample of a bomb falling and exploding in libya and another of the sounds of his pet pig being slaughtered and processed.
Are you sure you haven't miss remembered what the sample was of?
Are you sure you haven't miss remembered what the sample was of?
I believe every thread should devolve into character attacks and witch-burning. It really helps the discussion.
- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1313 posts since 29 Mar, 2002 from Salt Lake City, Utah - U.S.A.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was a drinking fountain, and it wasn't made by anyone well known, at least not to me. More of an independant project it seemed like. Again, the whole album was based off of just this single 9 second sample (now maybe it was actually 11-or 15, but I remember 9). The concept has always amazed me, but I never did get to hear what the results were, because I only read a review about it.
- KVRist
- 384 posts since 7 Nov, 2013
Not a fountain, but paper noises:
http://www.discogs.com/Various-One-Word ... ase/908689
Not what you're looking for i guess, but interesting nonetheless - every artis was given either a word or a sound which was then made into a piece of music. Some pretty awesome stuff on there.
http://www.discogs.com/Various-One-Word ... ase/908689
Not what you're looking for i guess, but interesting nonetheless - every artis was given either a word or a sound which was then made into a piece of music. Some pretty awesome stuff on there.
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- KVRian
- 505 posts since 2 May, 2014
It's not what you're looking for, but here's one from 1963 made using just the sound of a door and a sigh (as you may have guessed from the title):
Pierre Henry, "Variations for a Door and a Sigh" or "Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir" -
http://www.nightoftheworld.com/reviews/henry3.1.html
Irresistible Force sampled it on his track "High Frequency" from the electronic ambient album "Flying High: http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/cla ... igh-611239.
I'm intrigued about the album you're talking about.
Pierre Henry, "Variations for a Door and a Sigh" or "Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir" -
http://www.nightoftheworld.com/reviews/henry3.1.html
Irresistible Force sampled it on his track "High Frequency" from the electronic ambient album "Flying High: http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/cla ... igh-611239.
I'm intrigued about the album you're talking about.
- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1313 posts since 29 Mar, 2002 from Salt Lake City, Utah - U.S.A.
Just bought it, not very many copies left of them out there though.Redukt wrote:Not a fountain, but paper noises:
http://www.discogs.com/Various-One-Word ... ase/908689
Not what you're looking for i guess, but interesting nonetheless - every artis was given either a word or a sound which was then made into a piece of music. Some pretty awesome stuff on there.
Yeah, interesting. I couldn't listen too long though (you can find it on Amazon), there's just not a whole lot you can make out of a door squeak and a sigh. lol But it's kinda like, well all we have is soup cans, how can we photograph it? It's like, is it art, if so, is it good art? Really good, or really bad? Or is it just soup cans on the shelf?1wob2many wrote:It's not what you're looking for, but here's one from 1963 made using just the sound of a door and a sigh (as you may have guessed from the title):
Pierre Henry, "Variations for a Door and a Sigh" or "Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir" -
<span class="skimlinks-unlinked">http://www.nightoftheworld.com/reviews/ ... html</span>
Irresistible Force sampled it on his track "High Frequency" from the electronic ambient album "Flying High: <span class="skimlinks-unlinked">http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/cla ... 1239</span>.
I'm intrigued about the album you're talking about.
- KVRAF
- 1724 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from betwixt
Well you know all art is useless
Still pretty damn creative.
I had song I made in Alchemy entirely from a sample of a forklift starting up, idling, raising and lowering its forks, and then clanging them to the ground. I never released it and I think it's backed up on a now defunct hard drive.
It wasn't art, nor was it of any use
Still pretty damn creative.
I had song I made in Alchemy entirely from a sample of a forklift starting up, idling, raising and lowering its forks, and then clanging them to the ground. I never released it and I think it's backed up on a now defunct hard drive.
It wasn't art, nor was it of any use
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- KVRAF
- 7540 posts since 7 Aug, 2003 from San Francisco Bay Area
I've made songs just using the pencil tool in Sound Forge and manipulating it with the built in effects. That was particularly difficult because it isn't a multitrack sequencer. I had to make lots of little files of predetermined durations and then copy and paste and mix them together as I went along. What can I say... it was a slow day at work! These are interesting exercises, but the results are not often the most aesthetically pleasing.
Incomplete list of my gear: 1/8" audio input jack.
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- KVRian
- 508 posts since 27 May, 2004
i've too made a song using a recording of a inflating balloon!
https://soundcloud.com/bosone-2/sound-d ... periment-1
you can also find the kontakt file with all the patches I have used
https://soundcloud.com/bosone-2/sound-d ... periment-1
you can also find the kontakt file with all the patches I have used
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Around the world in 80 instruments
"Memories in time" - my latest (piano) album
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My website: http://www.alchemystudio.it/
Around the world in 80 instruments
"Memories in time" - my latest (piano) album
[url=https://www.youtube.com/c/MatteoBosi76/]YOUTUBE[/ulr] - [url=https://open.spotify.com/artist/0TrrnSs0g46uyEEnvqLv23]SPOTIFY[\ulr]
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- KVRian
- 1349 posts since 30 Mar, 2011
With todays DAWs and fx possibilities making a whole album from a sample is not really that groundbreaking any more. Of course if someone could generate a whole vocal line from a water fountain, that would be something...
Surely it was different a decade ago.
Surely it was different a decade ago.
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- KVRAF
- 10984 posts since 19 Jun, 2008 from Seattle
That's brilliant!bosone wrote:i've too made a song using a recording of a inflating balloon!
https://soundcloud.com/bosone-2/sound-d ... periment-1
you can also find the kontakt file with all the patches I have used
I'm not a musician, but I've designed sounds that others use to make music. http://soundcloud.com/obsidiananvil
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- KVRAF
- 15508 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
I think so, but, if that isn't one's goal, I still think that it can be either a fun or useful exercise. I like bosone's track above because even though there is a lot of variety, you can almost feel the surface of the balloon in the sound.2ZrgE wrote:With todays DAWs and fx possibilities making a whole album from a sample is not really that groundbreaking any more. Of course if someone could generate a whole vocal line from a water fountain, that would be something...
Surely it was different a decade ago.
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- KVRian
- 508 posts since 27 May, 2004
thanks for listening the track!
actually i know what i made is not unusual or original. for me it was a nice "exercise" to use all kontakt capability and to force myself to get ideas and techniques on how to make *this* sound for *this* purpose in the song.
I think anyone can learn something by doing tracks like this one!
actually i know what i made is not unusual or original. for me it was a nice "exercise" to use all kontakt capability and to force myself to get ideas and techniques on how to make *this* sound for *this* purpose in the song.
I think anyone can learn something by doing tracks like this one!
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My website: http://www.alchemystudio.it/
Around the world in 80 instruments
"Memories in time" - my latest (piano) album
[url=https://www.youtube.com/c/MatteoBosi76/]YOUTUBE[/ulr] - [url=https://open.spotify.com/artist/0TrrnSs0g46uyEEnvqLv23]SPOTIFY[\ulr]
My website: http://www.alchemystudio.it/
Around the world in 80 instruments
"Memories in time" - my latest (piano) album
[url=https://www.youtube.com/c/MatteoBosi76/]YOUTUBE[/ulr] - [url=https://open.spotify.com/artist/0TrrnSs0g46uyEEnvqLv23]SPOTIFY[\ulr]