Old rail steel found alongside railroad tracks was played percussively as well as some wooden logs. These haunting metallic and organic harmonics were played and recorded and granularized and digitally obliterated and combined with other sounds, other train sounds, and modular synthesizer.
Somehow crushing the sounds revealed new sounds, but not just noise. Somehow new melodic elements surfaced, spread more thickly with a long reverb and engaging in a call and response with themselves. Meanwhile, other components intersect, interfere, trample over one another, some aggressors but others ducking out of the way.
@mrmadcarpenter Feb 2022
Loving the soaring high pitched artifacts and glitches. And certainly a ghost rail vibe.
@heliosonorous Feb 2022
I really like the granular sounds and the mangling in here, like a storm of a city wrapped in a cloud spinning away.
@headfirstonly Feb 2022
Oh my word... I am nerding out *so* hard listening to this one. The granular noise is profoundly satisfying. And yeah, dropping huge levels of compression on sounds often reveals unexpected joys.
This reminds me of the story of Ben Burtt visiting all the radio towers in LA and belting their support cables with a wrench until he came across the one that became the Star Wars blaster noise...
@fuzzy Feb 2022
Yes, I think your liner notes describe this perfectly.
Yet another headphone masterpiece.
Like being trapped in a haunted abandoned factory.
As I've said before, I thoroughly enjoy all of your sonic experiments.
@samplebandit Feb 2022
2 words: holy sh_t
@dzdandcunfsd Feb 2022
This is fantastic! Its mesmerizing, and spooky, and very inspired! Great work. Using the steel rails and the wood, and how its all put together still give it a very organic feel I find absolutely endearing. Amazing stuff! I'm a fan!
@candle Feb 2022
Oh wow. This is spectacular. The metallic reverberations of the rails mixed with those rumbling wood sounds is just wonderful. This sounds like it was a whole lot of fun to put together. Oh, & now there's the train sounds. They work so well with the rest of this soundscape you have built. Yeah, this is my kind of haunting experimental music. Keep up the great work!
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