God's Chorus of Crickets
bassie
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recording of crickets slowed down.
I guess it's been a hard week, it made me cry.
I guess it's been a hard week, it made me cry.
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This is beautiful, thank you.
I know how that goes.
There is a record on the Deutsche Grammophon with a similar cricket theme. I can't remember the title right now.
Not quite as remarkable, but still worth hearing, is this;
One of my favourite films. I watched it so many times trying to figure out the meaning between the colour and bw sequences, only to read they shot the movie out of sequence, ran out of money and had to use bw film for the remainder :l
That is a much better explanation.
Is this the clip you meant, though? Around 8.50 is the sequence used through the film.
I only hope they won't start playing this shit in restaurant bathrooms like those annoying whale recordings years back... I prefer my animals to feed me and not to serenade me.
I'm guessing they made it using this:
http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/
this is the same program (or something very similar) that was used for that Justin Bieber slowed down thing that has a similar vibe. It applies some other effects besides stretching the sound so you end up with that ethereal quality.
Yeah, it is. There was just something about that crickets recording that put me in mind of it.
Apparently it was even a hit single in the UK in the late 60s, but I have absolutely no recollection of that at all. It would explain the proliferation of the accompanying album in UK charity shops, however.
The right program might even make my farts sound like gods angels in heaven singing otherworldly, ethereal spa spirituals. Actually I'll give this a shot next time I bake a batch of my infamous South German onion tart... put it on Soundcloud and claim it's the slowed down mating call of birds of paradise. Might just move you to tears...
Dude... we're about to sit on our terrace, have a cocktail of rum, hibiskus flowers and estate grown mandarin limes while enjoying our view over Costa Rica's Central valley . We've both given up smoking and money's not really an issue for us.
Now go and make some beatz in (hahaha...) Switzerland and stop worrying about other people's money... must be a Swiss obsession since without other people's money you'd just be a bunch of underdeveloped, hardly civilized mountain people who've never even written a footnote in the book of global, cultural history. Bunch of hicks enjoying ill-gotten, undeserved prosperity due to a long history of international money laundry.
b/w
Auto-tuned flatulence > Fake crickets
I heard the slowed down crickets on a science/human interest segment of NPR a few months back.
Which doesn't prove there is no other processing.
To me, the real time crickets give the track some tempo.
Not to hassle you, but what the fuck is an "estate grown" lime? All limes are grown, so lets cross that out.
Estate? Your estate, that would be cool.
Estate as opposed to... what? Plantation? Farm? Suburb?
I guess a Suburban Grown Fox Valley Estates Lime, just wouldn't taste as good. :cheese:
Still better than throw people into ovens I guess.
I hope your beats/z are more creative than your disses/z.
Switzerland collaborated with Nazi Germany and profited by providing the foreign currencies the Nazi regime needed for a total of 75% for their international transactions. Just as Switzerland has profited from every single dictatorship and cleptocracy in modern history. From Idi Amin and Mobutu to Charles Taylor, they all moved their loot to Switzerland. You guys made a killing by doing business with genocidal despots, all on the backs of the millions of people exploited, tortured and killed. The slick bankers of death. And what about the tens of thousands of Jewish refugees who you refused to help and instead turned back over to the Nazis?
Fucking hell, all I wanted to do was point out that those slowed down cricket recordings to me sounded doctored and I couldn't resist and make a joke or two about it. I never meant to disrespect the crickets as my love and respect for nature is only matched by my contempt for most of mankind. Poor little critters, being autotuned and trivialized for some viral "OMG they sound like angles" internets moment.
And with estate grown I meant those limes grow in our garden, we have 3 different species of them. We got shit loads of crickets, too. Angelic little fuckers.
New forum title!
Oh, wait, wrong board...
Sometimes, I check out Soul Strut, read a line like the above, and think to myself, "This place still has it."
Nice one!
Anyways, from autotuned insects rubbing body parts to Godwins in 1.5 pages is ideal for these wintry days.
By the by, best version of Os Grilos?
A tie between the lounge vocal and big band instr versions of Marcos Valle, with a special nod to cheesy organ king Wanderley. No baby spice.
Been Bossa in my head for like, a month.
Workshy Samba-Kings got it on lock. Almost.
Talmbout "How Insensitive" and dem. I found a version where the pianist is clog and it rulez.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/01/bossa-nova-highest-culture-brazil
It didn't really happen that way. You were sceptic about the authenticity of the recordings on some audio Sherlock Holmes shit, then someone most likely proved you wrong. Your pride got hurt and you felt the need to belittle the posters who cried. I can guarantee than you gonna have to record a shitload (no pun intended) of audio fart layers, to get something sounding like a cluster of crickets or birds...