This monaural recording was made with a WWII surplus hydrophone immersed in a glass of water in which a dry lump of pottery clay has been dropped. The clay immediately starts absorbing water and gradually exfoliates, emitting air bubbles and clouds of clay until it has turned into a layer of mud in the bottom of the glass. The process takes quite a while, and generates all manner of interesting sounds in the process, hence I've uploaded MP3.
This was recorded in 1992 with a Sony Walkman Pro cassette recorder. The underwater microphone looks like a hockey puck and is of unknown origin, thought part of a submarine hydrophone array. The microphone preamp is one of my own design and construction.
Type
Mp3 (.mp3)
Duration
4:10.372
File size
7.6 MB
Sample rate
44100.0 Hz
Bitrate
256 kbps
Channels
Mono
Comments
3 years, 11 months ago
Great! What a nice idea and great sound! Thank you.
5 years, 6 months ago
Lot's of great material here! Thanks. So many great things happen on slow days in the garage.
6 years, 6 months ago
This is so wonderfully grody and unsettling, and it's far and away one of my most favorite sounds to have accidentally discovered—thank you!
12 years, 10 months ago
This is a really interesting recording :-) thanks for sharing :-)
~Dane Vandewiele from "Cosmic Embers"
http://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicEmbers
13 years ago
This really cracked me up in a big grin. Such a splendid creativity! I'm loving all sorts of funky sounds, and this definitely falls into that category. Great recording! I doubt I can find any use for it, but I'll download it in a moment anyways because of that this sound is so cool!
