Other foley artists like amon tobin?

I really like how amon tobin and a couple others spend a lot of time focusing on sound samples, warping them, using ones you wouldn't think would fit...

Suggestions?

awepittance aka flourescent grey

FREEFORM

Me Shape and all albums after it....

genius!

daedelus perhaps?

No, not daedelus.. more kind of sound design rather than experimental sounds making a normal song..

  On 4/30/2010 at 3:40 AM, joshier said:

No, not daedelus.. more kind of sound design rather than experimental sounds making a normal song..

Before you said this I was going to suggest Matthew Herbert. Shit, check out Matthew Herbert anyway (and his Doctor Rockit alias too). Around the House is a pretty cool album, a house record made from sounds recorded around the house.

Matmos - A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure

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  On 4/30/2010 at 1:57 AM, kaini said:

awepittance aka flourescent grey

i'm going to come off as a curmudgeonly faggot right now but Amon Tobin;s use of the word 'foley' for his album title was more of a stylistic choice than using the word in the technically correct sense. I think a more appropriate term for people who use primarily real sounds or samples they took themselves for music making is Musique concrète' . Foley literally means scoring sound effects to film.

and yeah check out my music if haven't turned you off by my personality

'Gaseous Opal Orbs'

and 'Lying on the Floor...' (made almost entirely with field recordings)

other good recommendations from this thread and otherwise:

beats:

Matthew Herberts food album (sorry forgot the title)

Matmos - A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure

Coil - unnatural history 1

Farmers Manual - Explorers We

ambientish:

Oval - Dok (ambient music made from field recordings of bell sounds)

C-Schulz & F.X. Randomiz - Das Ohr Am Gleis (ambient album made from field recording train stations)

Black Dog - Music for real airports (field recordings of airports)

Hands To - anything

Facetiously ignorant post: i always thought musique concrete was washed up composers recording themselves playing with technology they don't quite grasp.

:pre-emptively unsubscribes:

originally it was a term used to describe composers like Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry who used recordings of things to make soundscapes and music out of. Delia Derbyshire was a Musique concrète artists more than a synthesizer or electronic musician in the traditional sense, the Dr. Who theme was made using musique concrète techniques of cutting up tape and creating a rapid-fire splicing effect for her 'synthesizer' sounding tones. Basically it was the term for proto-sampling, but now people sample practically sample anything whether it's acoustic or something a musician has already recorded. Originally there were more rigid ways of looking at these techniques

I see. I thought the term was attributed only to Stockhausen, Xenakis, along these lines.

  On 5/1/2010 at 10:16 PM, Awepittance said:

  On 4/30/2010 at 1:57 AM, kaini said:

awepittance aka flourescent grey

 

i'm going to come off as a curmudgeonly faggot right now but Amon Tobin;s use of the word 'foley' for his album title was more of a stylistic choice than using the word in the technically correct sense. I think a more appropriate term for people who use primarily real sounds or samples they took themselves for music making is Musique concrète' . Foley literally means scoring sound effects to film.

 

and yeah check out my music if haven't turned you off by my personality

'Gaseous Opal Orbs'

and 'Lying on the Floor...' (made almost entirely with field recordings)

 

dude, what did you make orange wash on ambiente' with?

  On 5/1/2010 at 10:16 PM, Awepittance said:

i'm going to come off as a curmudgeonly faggot right now but Amon Tobin;s use of the word 'foley' for his album title was more of a stylistic choice than using the word in the technically correct sense. I think a more appropriate term for people who use primarily real sounds or samples they took themselves for music making is Musique concrète' . Foley literally means scoring sound effects to film.

Yeah you beat me to it. Even in the context to the album where the term is used, it's not appropriate. I mean, field recordings are used, but not in the sense that these samples are used to fool the audience into thinking it's something it's not. I guess "Foley Room" does sound better than "Hey guys I recorded some samples places and stuff". That being said, some of the sounds on that album are quite nice, but the music isn't particularly interesting.

  On 5/1/2010 at 10:41 PM, kaini said:

  On 5/1/2010 at 10:16 PM, Awepittance said:

  On 4/30/2010 at 1:57 AM, kaini said:

awepittance aka flourescent grey

 

i'm going to come off as a curmudgeonly faggot right now but Amon Tobin;s use of the word 'foley' for his album title was more of a stylistic choice than using the word in the technically correct sense. I think a more appropriate term for people who use primarily real sounds or samples they took themselves for music making is Musique concrète' . Foley literally means scoring sound effects to film.

 

and yeah check out my music if haven't turned you off by my personality

'Gaseous Opal Orbs'

and 'Lying on the Floor...' (made almost entirely with field recordings)

 

 

dude, what did you make orange wash on ambiente' with?

shhh that album is not supposed to be out yet , i think i used Melodyne primarily on that track. Making chords out of a didge was some of the most fun i've ever had making music

http://soundcloud.com/fluorescentgrey/2006-fluorescent-grey-and-brian-english-literal-elevator-music

this song in particular i'm really proud of , 100% field recordings even the crazy glitched out sound in the middle is my hard drive starting up

Edit: one of my favorite techniques with field recordings is to make very synthesizer soundalike textures/pads out of totally real sounds. For instance in this track i used a copy machine and transposed it across the entire keyboard to make this melody. I made sure to use a sampler that didn't speed up the sample as you go up the keyboard, Kontakt could technically do this at the time but it sounded remarkably worse than when i did it in Reaktor using 'resynth'

just uploaded 2 tracks from Lying on the floor for you to check out joshier

http://soundcloud.com/fluorescentgrey/crackly-shell 95% field recordings in the biggest retail outlet in the united states

http://soundcloud.com/fluorescentgrey/liquefied-break-dancing 100% water sounds recorded using binaural microphones

also forgot to pimp out this excellent album using primarily field recordings, kind of like a mixture of BOC and my music

http://boomkat.com/downloads/192696-brian-english-beyond-words

  On 4/30/2010 at 1:53 AM, joshier said:

I really like how amon tobin and a couple others spend a lot of time focusing on sound samples, warping them, using ones you wouldn't think would fit...

 

Suggestions?

matthew herbert

Yeah definately Herbert. Plat du Jour is a great album made from sampling cooking equipment and the like and it's brilliant.

He's making an album on the life cycle of a pig now too, totally odd:

http://thisisapig.blogspot.com/

Where is the goddamn love for FREEFORM...?

motherfucking Audiotourism!

so good...

but Greenpark and Me Shape are more 'foleyriffic' (using gadgets and other real objects as sound samples)

Herbert - Plat Du Jour as well....

  On 5/2/2010 at 5:20 PM, Atop said:

Where is the goddamn love for FREEFORM...?

 

motherfucking Audiotourism!

I absolutely have to second that one.

DEAD VOICES ON AIR

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There is a guy called Frank Riggio. He is almost copying Amon Tobin. And most of his music is free.