Electronic Music In The Ocean

it's so amazing to me the similarities between some of the calls of creatures in the sea and sounds found in electronic music's.

someone really should make a decent concept album based completely on samples taken from nature (or just the sea). sea creatures

have particularly lovely tones they emit.

now i know that many artists have used various sounds from the sea as aspects of their music's-but what i would like to suggest

is that the whole structure of an album (whether it be ambient or more beat oriented) be constructed using these sounds as source material.

a concept album-not unlike the work matmos did using sounds from surgery on their album 'a chance to cut is a chance to cure'.

these seal calls are incredible!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbLynJJzkE0

dolphins are of course an amazing pop + click sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W2hXZM6iXM&feature=related

then there are the whales.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo2bVbDtiX8&feature=related

In the first video the sound's pitch is decreasing. It sounds like a Doppler effect or something. Isn't water a dispersive material for sound ?(= waves with different frequencies don't travel at the same speed)

oval's album systemisch is very akin to these types of sounds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRvbg62zX3w&feature=related

Thread title makes me think of Drexciya.

  On 5/30/2010 at 3:00 AM, disparaissant said:

Thread title makes me think of Drexciya.

was hoping that someone would mention Drexicya.

thank you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9y9Snt1g5E

THA OCEAN!

Also, I was in a band with this guy who liked nothing more than playing with an eBow, a slide, and heavy delay. He turned that guitar into a dying whale, it was amazing.

  On 5/30/2010 at 5:08 AM, disparaissant said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9y9Snt1g5E

i remember this drexciya piece poping up once before-it is awe inspiring-everything about it overwhelms the senses.

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Also, I was in a band with this guy who liked nothing more than playing with an eBow, a slide, and heavy delay. He turned that guitar into a dying whale, it was amazing.

this is interesting-i'd be curious to hear any finished product you all might have come up with? do you have any recordings?

for some more info on the leopard seals:

http://www.antarctica2000.net/mcmurdo/journal6/12_4_96.html

@ troon (dont feel like quoting you quoting me)

unfortunately, i don't. this was like 7 years ago when i was in college. i lost most of the stuff we recorded in a hard drive crash. he might have some, but we've not been in contact for a while. really ought to track him down. tbh none of it was all that GOOD (it was him on guitar, me playing my old DX7 [rip] and drum machines) but i have never heard anyone make that same sound from a guitar.

  On 5/30/2010 at 12:16 PM, disparaissant said:

i lost most of the stuff we recorded in a hard drive crash.

hope this thread inspires you somehow-you should try to recreate the sound yourself with the same effects.

do you have a guitar or access to a guitar?

these takes me to the bottom of the ocean. come to think of it-this entire album drags me down miles below the surface

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSV3Tf0gVPk&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J2gv80ttK8&feature=related