Thursday, May 19, 2011

Alarming (sorry)

So someone has made an album entirely out of the sounds made by an alarm clock. Yes indeed. That someone is Jon Brooks who's made a bit of an ambient record based off sounds from a classic Braun alarm clock like the one below:



Weird but kind of cool. He basically sampled and then manipulated the sounds until he had a full range of notes, so it's not as amazing as it may at first seem, but still beyond what I could do. How he did it is quite interesting ; you can hear him talk about that below, and listen to the entire album here.

Jon Brooks - Music For Dieter Rams - An explanation of techniques. by cafekaput

3 comments:

  1. It's a brilliant piece of audio, that's for sure. Fascinating to hear him work through his technique...

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  2. glad you liked that info -- watch out for a similar post on gold panda coming up!

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  3. damn, really like track 3. his work shows that music is all around us - even in things as annoying as alarm clocks

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