LAC Noises
In the same spirit as last year's "ParmaNoises",
Frank again made a little sound
experiment by recording a certain noise and modifying it quite a bit. The idea was
to play this sound at the end of the conference and let the audience guess what it
is. Due to time constraints, we couldn't do that, but you can now take a guess:
UtrechtNoises (OGG/Vorbis)
Now, if you have listened to it and made your guess, here's a spoiler..
..and the full explanation.
After having had the morning shower, I noticed noises from the water tap. The
tap was not dripping - instead, single drops of water were "trying to fall down",
but were sucked back into the tap due to an (I guess) underpressure building up in
the tube caused by the second outlet (the hand spray).
I recorded that sound with an AKG C1000S and my friend ce's
audio interface (Edirol UA25), and processed it with: trimming, normalizing,
time-stretch to 3x the original length with "rubberband", and finally adding
reverb/delay and some compression with Rakarrack. Big phun :-).
Can we have a "Name that Sound!" competition for next year's LAC, please? The
audience would be asked on the first day of the conference to record some sound
they find somewhere near then, process that sound ("alienate") and play it back
in front of the audience at the last day to let everyone guess what that sound is.
Just an idea :-).
Frank Neumann, May/June 2010
