Archive for October, 2011
Jon Brooks, Music For Dieter Rams
“Using inexpensive contact microphones (which in this case act effectively as microscopes for sound) I recorded the alarm sound, the various ʻticksʼ of the second hand as it made itʼs way around the clock face, and usually-unheard noises such as the cogs whirring and the harmonics of the spring-loaded ʻsnoozeʼ button. Short, cyclic waveform samples were edited from these recordings, which became the ʻoscillatorsʼ (oscillators are the fundamental building blocks on which all electronic sounds are based)”.
The raw sounds were then treated and shaped using envelopes, filters, phasing, delay and reverberation.
You can listen to the whole album here:
http://jonbrooks.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-dieter-rams
and to an explanation of the making here:
http://soundcloud.com/cafekaput/jon-brooks-music-for-dieter