Transformed wind chimes: Nature-Symphony 3

"Nature-Symphony 3 (Enigma of the waters of the depths)" — Half-speed version of https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/702197/ with 'deep cave' transformation.

— The original was Music of the Spheres Gypsy Soprano wind chimes heard through the boisterous sound of the River Teign just a little below Drogo Weir in the Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK. The Eastern European Gypsy scale sounding from this chime imbues the rushing water sound with an air of mystery. The chimes are quiet initially, and at times throughout, though becoming overall a little more active later on. When they are quiet, their sound is buried in the weir sound, so you hear just teasing hints of the chimes sound, colouring the continuous rushing sound, and challenging the listener's own creative imagination to produce one's own 'rushing water music'.

A striking feature of this 'deep cave' reverberation is its directionality, so that the individual echoes / reverbs soar out in various directions, according to the position of each chime sound.

I made the basic recording on 6 February 2013, having retreated from recording chimes high above, where a cold wind forced me to flee.

This transformation of the original doubles both as as a 'sounds' recording (appropriate for Freesound) and as the third of my 'Nature-Symphonies' series of 'official' music compositions, soon to be presented on my music compositions site, linking to a copy of it on YouTube.

Drogo weir and the quite noisy de-frothing turbulent River Teign continuing on its way (13 November 2018 photo); the river flow was probably about half of what you see here. This recording was made just off to the left of this view.

Techie stuff:

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

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). The current creative transformation was (1) to use the 'Change speed' effect in Audacity to halve the speed, then to use the Orilriver VST plugin ('Deep cave' factory preset) for the 'interesting' reverb.

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