insect stream - for guitar and field recording

[Guest]

https://soundcloud.com/greghooper/insect-stream

for guitar and field recording of insects hovering over the Porarari River, Punakaiki, New Zealand

[RikkiSho]

This is actually a recording of actual insects that you have modified? That is too awesome. Very interesting. Which bit is the guitar?

Almost...horror-like. A building up, tense, terrifying tonal quality to it.

Man these field recordings are inspiring me for my own. Opening my mind!!

[Guest]

This is actually a recording of actual insects that you have modified? That is too awesome. Very interesting. Which bit is the guitar?

Almost...horror-like. A building up, tense, terrifying tonal quality to it.

Man these field recordings are inspiring me for my own. Opening my mind!!

Thanks for listening and commenting. Yeah this is a recording I made in New Zealand about 5 years ago - the insect sounds have only been slowed down (which shifts the pitch as well) so that there is the original recording, another slowed a little bit and another slowed a little bit more. Plus the water sounds which are natural. The guitar is the high pitched stuff right at the beginning and through most of it. Plus some more 'snap' sounds. The guitar is a nylon string classical prepared by attaching small split shot fishing sinkers onto the strings. That's an old recording as well. There's some reverb and delay on that - and multiple tracks.

[RikkiSho]

Wow. Love it. So inspired right now!! :D

[Synthetic Aurality]

That does it, I'm going down to Lady Bird Lake with my H2N this weekend! This is cool stuff, I like it!

And yeah.. it did get scary there... I swear I hear someone chanting "Agua, Agua, Aguaaaa"...!

[Guest]

That does it, I'm going down to Lady Bird Lake with my H2N this weekend! This is cool stuff, I like it!

And yeah.. it did get scary there... I swear I hear someone chanting "Agua, Agua, Aguaaaa"...!

Ha ha - thanks - you can't get out there recording too much, only too little

[GaryG]

Yep, pretty scary.

Made me think of the movie "Phase IV", I guess the insects closing in...

Nice work.

[Guest]

Thanks GaryG - I don't think I've seen Phase IV but will check it out tonight - Saul Bass!

[GaryG]

Thanks GaryG - I don't think I've seen Phase IV but will check it out tonight - Saul Bass!

Definitely a product of the 70s (think scifi like Westworld, Demon Seed, Andromeda Strain etc), well worth a watch.

I think it was the only full length film Saul Bass directed.