One sound composition
Imagine you only had one sound to compose from? How much could you tweak this sound to become a living, breathing composition with a variety of different textures? Well… I decided to spend a few hours last night by using a single “clap” sound as my source material. Everything you are about to hear is derived from this one sound and manipulated through editing, filtering and a variety of FX including delays, glitching, vocoders, distortion, time stretching, time freezing and so forth.
Feel free to listen to the demos below. The first link contains the actual composition, which starts by the clap sound. You can also download the composition and my raw clap edits. You will note some high pitch sounds in the last part of the edits – these were looped and tuned down to become basses and synths. I essentially ran them through a variety of plugins to shape and sculpt them. The ambient drones were created by playing chords with the synths, which were then timefrozen (using timefreezer).
The concept is really to dive deep into the source and keep on sculpting it through plugins until it becomes something you like. All the percussion what generated from super tiny “bleep” 10ms sounds from the clap. The bass drum was created by tuning clap 32 semi tones and cutting the attack tight. The snare was made by time stretching the clap. All percussion was processed through a vocoder. Anyway … Enough rambling …
Enjoy.
You can download composition by clicking here:
You can download source material by clicking here:
Great piece of work Mr. Folmann. By listening this the one thing which came in my mind was ” you are a lot imaginative ” which an audio director has to be. you have big wings to make your imaginations fly..
take care.
Yeah, that was very creative. I’m astonished, as always. Keep it up Troels.
Thank you for this!!! This is such an amazing gem. I’ve been listening to it on repeat for the past 15 minutes, and still absolutely love it! I think I’m gonna make a cd of it and listen to it in my car.
i really liked that, i think it’d sound great made into a full length song!
This was so fascinating and great to listen to!
My my, haven’t things changed since I was bouncing tracks around in my kitchen on a Fostex 480 all those years ago. Fabulous insight into your work and thanks for taking the time to explain the piece.
This is genius. I look forward to more of this type of thing from you.
Genius!
Hi,
Just wondering what VST and VSTi you use to achieve this track?
Would really love to know. Thanks
jg
I remember using Timefreezer and Dblue Glitch, which are two of my favorite plugins, since they allow a very flexible manipulation of the sound. Timefreezer for ambient drone type of processing and dblue glitch for percussive processing.
Thanks for the info. Very cool stuff you have going on here btw. Inspiring
What the heck? This sounds incredible awesome Marvelous !!!
Wish i could be a genius like you
Best wishes
Hey Troels, this sounds great !.
With only a clap..Really beautiful track.
I love it.
We’ve used pretty similar stuff for
almost the same experiment!
J.V
hey really nice piece of work..
i guess comb filtering and granular synthesis can really take a character of sound and change it into something else altogether..!
cheers
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