Half-speed! Outlandish Wind chimes duo — Pluto and Twilight

Even more outlandishly, mysteriously, other-worldly, now heard at half-speed! This is a half-speed rendering of part of https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/682453/ .

Here we have a weird duo, recorded on 10 May 2018 at my usual wind chimes recording spot, by Hunting Gate, at the highest point on the Hunter's Path, high up on the north side of the Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK — as always, with a backdrop of the quiet rushing sound of the River Teign far below in the bottom of the valley.

Chimes used:

1. Davis Blanchard Pluto (right)

2. Davis Blanchard Twilight (left)

(My apologies — I omitted to fade-out the ending! I didn't at all mean a sudden ending like that!)

This was one of the fruits of my final recording session in my Wind Chimes in the Wild project. Perhaps perversely, I'm uploading my recordings in reverse chronological order — most recent first —, so the most 'advanced' sounds are tending to come earlier rather than later.

I was actually doubtful about sharing this particular half-speed version, because it's come out with pronounced mic hiss, no doubt caused by the EQ used to compensate for the muffling caused by the three nested furry windshields used. I finally decided to share it anyway so that people can hear these wonderful sounds and maybe find some inspiration in them. I've done what I can sensibly do to minimize that hiss.

General information about the Davis Blanchard chimes

General information about the Music of the Spheres and Woodstock chimes

Birds heard include Chiffchaff, Blue tit, Wood pigeon, Raven, Willow warbler, chaffinch (calls) — and the odd friendly bumblebee coming fussing around.

Recording two Davis Blanchard chimes plus a large and small set of cheap bamboo chimes in an earlier session at the same spot (no photos for this session). The arrow points to the recorder, with its black furry windshield.

Techie stuff:
The recorder was a Sony PCM-D100, with three nested Windcut furry windshields (custom design), and it was placed on a Zipshot Mini tripod, in a position where it was tolerably sheltered from the wind.

Initial post-recording processing was to apply an EQ curve to compensate for muffling from the furry windshields. I used Audacity's Change Speed effect function to produce this half-speed version.

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