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Nature-Symphony 43 (The Inner Fire's sun-like resplendence takes hold…) — Yes, complete with solar wind, solar flares and resultant auroras! And the relatively high G tone sustained for longish periods will no doubt drive plenty of people insane! ("Beware of the Philip", as they say!) — Actually there are two related sustained tones, because Layer 2 is a fifth lower than Layer 1. However, for the most part, when the Layer 1 G is sounding, the corresponding Layer 2 sustained C is heard as an undertone of the former tone and so not recognisable as a separate entity until it has no competition.
(Sorry about the little blip at the very beginning; I've nipped it off my own copy, so the YouTube upload of this will be without that unwelcome 'extra'.)
Here we have a particularly fiery-sounding duo of metal chimes, deployed in two layers (i.e., the duo in both those layers), with a mostly subdued low bamboo chime in Layer 3. I'd wanted to have two layers of those so that they could give strong antiphonal effects, but no, more than just the one layer got too distracting from the real centre of focus.
Motto image for this work, used as background image in its YouTube video. It's an AI-generated one from Bing Image Creator from my description.
Chimes used:
(layers 1+2)
1. Music of the Spheres Gypsy Soprano (6 tubes, tuned to an Eastern European Gypsy scale)
2. Davis Blanchard Debussy Bells (8 tubes, tuned to the whole-tone scale, but also sounding a strong supernumerary note above its official top note, and not on that particular whole-tone scale)
(Layer 3)
3. Indonesian bamboo chime, large-side-of-medium (42cm longest tube) (6 tubes, imprecise tuning, which notionally keys in nicely with the metal chimes here, BUT I chose its pitch reduction to make it more 'dissonant' against those chimes, causing additional potent 'tension' notes and intervals to be heard. This work is meant to be elemental and inspiring, not easy-pleasing and comforting!)
I made the original metal chimes recording on 26 April 2018, on rough steep ground just below Hunting Gate, highest point on the Hunter's Path, Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK. Original recording at https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/682796/ . The bamboo chimes recording dates from 21 November 2023, on Piddledown, a little above the Hunter's Path. The geolocation is for the metal chimes recording.
Advisory
To get the best out of this, with its mass of detail, listen with high-grade headphones.
N.B. My apologies for the hiss from the mics. This and other recordings made from 18 April to 5 August 2018, plus a few after the latter date, are impacted by my using three rather than two nested furry windshields. The amount of post-recording EQ to correct for all that muffling actually boosted mic hiss to a level that I nowadays regard as unacceptable. Unfortunately, background noise reduction in Audacity doesn't reduce it sufficiently without removing too much of the 'wanted' sound.
Two Davis Blanchard chimes being recorded in a previous session at the same spot; in this recording, one of those was replaced with the Gypsy Soprano chime.
Recording the bamboo chime. The recorder is close to the ground, facing steeply upwards to this chime, off the bottom of this view, slightly right of centre.
Techie stuff:
Recorder for the metal chimes was a Sony PCM-D100, with three nested custom Windcut furry windshields, on a Zipshot Mini tripod.
Post-recording processing was to apply EQ in Audacity to correct for the muffling effect of the windshields. As already noted, the extra-strong correction because of the third nested furry windshield has resulted in an excessive level of microphone hiss.
Layer 1: half-speed, giving an octave pitch reduction; acoustic: moderate back of cathedral;
Layer 2: speed reduction to give an octave plus a fifth below original; acoustic: ditto.
Recorder for the bamboo chime was same as for the metal chimes, but mics set at narrow angle (90°).
Post-recording processing: as for metal chimes, except that A1 Stereo Control was used to widen the soundstage (135%) to provide a modest zoom-in.
Layer 3: speed reduction to give an octave plus a major sixth below original; acoustic: back of cathedral.
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This recording can be used free of charge, provided that it's not part of a materially profit-making project, and it is properly and clearly attributed. The attribution must give my name (Philip Goddard) and link to https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/727157/
Type
Flac (.flac)
Duration
64:12.309
File size
237.3 MB
Sample rate
44100.0 Hz
Bit depth
16 bit
Channels
Stereo