found sound

Symphony of Science – We Are All Connected (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye)

We Are All Connected was made from sampling Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, The History Channel’s Universe series, Richard Feynman’s 1983 interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye’s Eyes of Nye Series, plus added visuals from The Elegant Universe (NOVA), Stephen Hawking’s Universe, Cosmos and the Powers of 10.

MP3 available at http://www.symphonyofscience.com. Read more…

This is a fun demo of iDrum Beatboxing Edition (App Store link), a $4.99 sampling drum machine.

If you’ve used iDrum Beatboxing Edition, leave a comment with your thoughts! Read more…

Stop Motion DJ, by Heinz, is a fun advertisement that uses stop-motion VJ remixing to create music out of the sounds of a ketchup bottle.

via HJHeinz1869:

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oubliettezombie demonstrates how to turn your thumb into a pad synth sound:

In this video, I take the sound of my thumb moving around on the microphone (Shure SM57) and turn it into an atmospheric pad sound.

The most important step in this process was scanning through the recorded sound and setting the loop points in such a way that the source sound became more interesting. After that, things like filters, envelopes, FM, etc. can be applied to really give it life.

All manner of found sounds contain individual waveforms that are far more exotic and complex than the basic waves found in synthesizers. Sometimes this is desirable, sometimes it is not.

If you know of other interesting examples of sound design, leave a comment!

Soundscapes is an audiovisual sound collage by Ace Norton.

Credits:

• Directed by Ace Norton
• Produced by Charles Spano
• Editing by Isaac Hagy
• Cinematography by Hiro Murai
• Sound recording and track by T.K. Broderick
• Partizan Berlin