At the hotel where I’m staying during the CES convention in Vegas, they have these little trash bins that I discovered being very resonant.
When I threw an empty water bottle inside the bin, it made a beautiful sustaining sound, so I thought to improvise a little groove with it.
I didn’t have all my usual recording gear with me so I used an iPhone with a small audio interface.
I sound designed the recordings to abstract the intro a little bit, to emphasize the dominant frequency and to open up the stereo field. I hope you’ll enjoy it : )
Almost everyday, on my way to a local bakery, I walk in front of a dry cleaners.
When they have the front door open, I hear a lot of interesting sounds coming from their work equipment. Eventually, the different mechanical and steam sounds sparked something in my mind, so one day I asked the owners if I could record a piece of music by using their machines as musical instruments.
I used a puff iron, press and dry cleaning machines, a washer, clothes hangers, and a bucket full of soap.
The bass and lead sounds were created from the buzzing tones coming from the conduits and engines.
There are no additional sounds from any traditional or electronic instruments. Enjoy!
here’s a beat made from a recording made while driving the little man over to the nannies one morning. everything but the bass drum is cut and built from the car noise and gus’ babbling. the recording was done with just the ipod’s junky microphone, so sound quality is less than premium.
Follows sound designer and composer Andrew Harris through a sampling session on a metallic rock in Vancouver BC. All sounds from the song are composed from the materials gathered in this session.