Transformed wind chimes: Nature-Symphony 50

Nature-Symphony 50 (Processional — Magnificent Galaxy, ever rotating…) — Another preposterously outlandish combination and deployment of a pair of metal wind chimes, with ever evolving, protoplasmic relationship between dissonance and visionary combinations of harmonies, taking us into an unimaginable rugged terrain, almost exploding with its sense of breaking out into new ground and climbing seemingly physically impossible mountains. The bamboo chimes here often give a sense of some sort of procession, and hence the title. — This is no doubt too challenging for the vast majority, but, my 'arrogant' counsel is, as they say, "Just go for it, Tiger!".

As with the previous two Nature-Symphonies, the bamboo chime is deliberately adjusted to sound to be in the fairly far background. Any stronger sound from it would divert attention too much away from the awesomeness of the overall sound of the metal chimes. In this case the chosen bamboo chime is basically a nicely resonant and 'tuneful-sounding' one, but it's sounding above and way below its original pitch, so is heard primarily for its percussive effects in its two pitch ranges used here.

The original recording is at https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/682453/ .

Chimes used:

(layers 1+2)
1. Davis Blanchard Pluto (8 tubes, tuned to an ethereal-sounding minor scale but incorporating a minor major seventh chord, spread through the two octaves, which embraces both minor triad and augmented triad, and gives it a teasing, mysterious dissonant aspect)

2. Davis Blanchard Twilight (8 tubes, tuned to a weird bunch of pitches, which give potent intervals and chords, notably augmented triad, minor major seventh, minor triad, major seventh, and a poignant repeating descending minor second (semitone))

(Layers 3+4)
3. Indonesian bamboo chime, 'Pink Hibiscus' ornamented, large-side-of-medium (longest tube c. 42cm) (Particularly full-toned and resonant for its size, and hence able to produce some really deep bass when recordings are slowed down or their pitch lowered sufficiently)

I made the original metal chimes recording on 10 May 2018 (not on Freesound), on rough steep ground just below Hunting Gate, highest point on the Hunter's Path, Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK. The bamboo chime recording dates from 21 November 2023, on Piddledown, a little above the Hunter's Path. Geolocation is for the metal chimes.

Advisory
To get the best out of this, with its mass of detail, listen with high-grade headphones.

Two Davis Blanchard chimes being recorded in a previous session at the same spot.

Recording the bamboo chime. The recorder is close to the ground, facing steeply upwards to this chime, off the bottom of this view, slightly right of centre.

Techie stuff:

Recorder for all recordings was a Sony PCM-D100, with two nested custom Windcut furry windshields, and it was placed on a Zipshot Mini tripod (metal chimes), and an Aoka carbon-fibre mini tripod (bamboo chime).

Post-recording processing was to apply EQ in Audacity to correct for the muffling effect of the windshields.

(Metal chimes)
Layer 1: half-speed, giving an octave pitch reduction

Layer 2: Speed to give pitch reduction of an octave plus minor sixth below original.

(bamboo chime)
Layer 3: Half-speed, but then pitch increase to give pitch a tritone above original (!), so its tone is a bit weird

Layer 4: Speed reduction to give pitch two octaves plus a tritone below original

Acoustic for Layer 1 was 'moderate back-of-cathedral', and for the others it was 'back-of-cathedral'.

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