Transformed wind chimes: Nature-Symphony 5

"More beautiful than any palace!" — Nature-Symphony 5 (Wide-eyed young monk's contemplation of Ama Dablam). Transformation of a recording of Woodstock Gregorian Chimes (tenor), made just below the Hunter's Path, high up in the Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK (https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/702214/ ). As the title suggests, this is more contemplative and less narrative than various other 'nature-symphonies' of mine. — indeed it can be used as a stimulating but yet also restful background. However, I recommend that people don't listen to it as any sort of 'meditation', for that would get them all the more ungrounded (harmful! — See entry for 'meditation' at https://www.clarity-of-being.org/glossary.htm)

I made this recording on 6 February 2013, in fairly windy conditions, at the same spot as on 30 January, when I was recording the chimes with a gale blowing. This transformed version has fairly strong background (a quiet to quite strong deep roar), which is primarily the wind, which generally masked the similar but more distant sound of the River Teign far down below. The background sound needs to be accepted as part of the intended soundworld and not something that needed somehow filtering out.

Advisory

Yes, I do know that there's a hell of a lot of low frequencies in this, particularly reinforced by that quarter-speed component. However, that is just the wind, and no, I'm a bad boy and so I'm not filtering that out! :-) It's truly part of the other-worldly vision. This doesn't need to be very loud — it works well as a rather distant vision —, so one's playing volume can be set a bit lower if you find the half- and quarter-speed wind troublesome. Enjoy!

A slightly earlier recording taking place at the same spot, on 30 January 2013. The wind was coming over the top of the hill, i.e., from the right and a little behind in 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 of the original 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).

Processing to achieve this transformation:

A) In Audacity I produced two stereo layers, each containing a copy of the original recording:
1. Reduced to half-speed
2. Reduced to quarter-speed.

B) Reduced overall length to a manageable one, and Layer 2 a little bit more, as the beginning and end are meant to be Layer 1 only.

C) Some copy and paste to replace rather quiescent ending with more animated sections in an effective manner.

D) Applied my custom 'back-of-cathedral' preset in the OrilRiver VST plugin, followed by reduction of the overpowering low bass sound (from the reduced-speed wind)

E) Used 'Mix and render' function to mix the lot into single stereo track.

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