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Omphalos Concrete - Digital adaptations
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Concrete method. By using various techniques of cut and slice tape editing, re-recording and electronic signal processing, an audio recording of a single sound source can be shaped and manipulated into a new, individual piece of music. The source can be anything. The process can be anything. The finished music can be anything. Or nothing.
With this recording, I used eleven copies of a digitally sampled sound, with each copy given a different sonic treatment using commercially available, software based dynamic resonant filters, modulators, envelope generators and reverbs. In keeping with the idea of layering the sound and in order to preserve the relative time of each copy, I decided to avoid any wholesale cut and pasting of the audio files and instead used various real time dynamic feeds of looped effects . These were sometimes fed back into themselves adding further layers of triggering further variable effects into the original effects inputs.
Omphalos 5
Almost paradoxically, I found that the more effects added to the mix, the more everything started to sound the same!. I quickly realized that the possibilities were endless with even a slight adjustment to a single parameter having a marked effect on the sonic makeup of the particular sound, and quite often leading to white noise and distortion. This particular outcome is not dissimilar to the Mandelbrot scale effect where small variations eventually produce big changes and whenever a given threshold is passed, chaos results. (Although there still remains some chaotic order.)
Omphalos 9
After a somewhat lengthy period of trail and error tempered with some omphaloskepsic contemplation (!), I was able to produce a sequence of different effect patches and mixes with which I composed 11 unique pieces of music that exist relative to each other in time and at times sounding like didgeridoos, city traffic or whale song.
Omphalos 3
A unique sound source for soundtracks and video sound effects production. Focused listening in a darkened room is recommend.