Duo of pentatonic wind chimes with sea near Gwynver, near Land's End

Close to a very rocky section of the coast path between Cape Cornwall and Sennen Cove — between Aire Point and Gwynver, Penwith, Cornwall, UK, we listen to a duo of chimes both tuned to the pentatonic scale, but to different modes based on it. For me this radiant sound always evokes rainbow colours. We're on the edge of a cliff that is only about a couple of metres high, so we hear the waves of the quite gentle sea clearly breaking on the rocks here without the usual din.  The wind was gentle too, so the chimes activity feels tuneful rather than dramatic.

Chimes used

1. Woodstock Chimes of Pluto (middling-high pitched, pentatonic)

2. Woodstock Chimes of Polaris (higher-pitched, pentatonic)

I recorded this on 19 June 2013, aiming to get a bunch of recordings, but conditions were mostly against that working out, and this was the only recording I kept.

Advisory

Because of the processing to widen and sharpen the originally atrocious stereo imaging, the sea may sound rather phasey when listened to from certain speaker systems. Therefore high-grade headphones are the best solution.

This recording in progress. Curiously, despite the chimes being either side of the recorder, and the subsequent stereo widening, the chimes in this recording still sound as though close together. The popular Gwynver surfing beach beyond.

Techie stuff

The recorder was Sony PCM-M10, with Røde DeadKitten furry windshield (original, more effective, version). It was set up on a Zipshot Mini tripod, with the chimes also hung from Zipshot tripods.

Post-recording processing was to apply EQ in Audacity to correct for the muffling effect of the windshield — and then more recently stereo widening / sharpening-up using the VST plugin A1 Stereo Control (160% widening).

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