Half-speed! Airy wind chimes quintet at Hunter's Tor, Teign Gorge

Half-speed version of part of https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/700528/ . Haunting 'suspended in mid-air' sounds from two bamboo and three metal wind chimes, quite exposed on the narrow Hunter's Tor ridge at the west end of the Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK.

Chimes used:

Music of the Spheres Gypsy Mezzo (eastern European Gypsy scale, lower)

Music of the Spheres Gypsy Soprano (eastern European Gypsy scale, higher)

Woodstock Chimes of Pluto (pentatonic, middling-high)

Bamboo, large and small set (purchased cheaply from local store)

I made this recording on 18 February 2013 following a recording of bamboo chimes only (https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/700526/ ).

A 'crazy' experiment!

When I came to produce this half-speed version I noticed that the background sounds (primarily the River Teign down below and indeed the wind) were hardly noticeable. I soon got the notion to see if I could get usefully interesting results from producing versions of this half-speed version given a cathedral acoustic — producing versions that placed the chimes ensemble at a range of distances within the cathedral perspective. I'd never thought to do this before because all other recordings seemed to me to have too much background sound to make a 'cathedral' version a worthwhile proposition.

That I've now done, and this 'straight' half-speed version is followed here by four 'cathedral' versions of it, ranging from 'close' to 'distance+3' — the latter sounding quite freaky, though to my no doubt warped senses, still compellingly beautiful in its own way.

Here's the link for the pack I've put those versions in:

https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/packs/39136/
 

This recording taking place. The two nearest and apparently higher chimes are the bamboo ones, the rightmost one is the Pluto chimes, and the other two (more distant, with black tubes) are the Gypsy chimes.

Techie stuff

The recorder was Sony PCM-M10, with Røde DeadKitten furry windshield (original, more effective, version), placed on a Velbon Mini tripod.

Post-recording processing was to apply EQ in Audacity to correct for the muffling effect of the windshield, and more recent processing with the A1 Stereo Control VST plugin (160% widening). I used the 'Change speed' effect in Audacity to produce this half-speed version.

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