Transformed wind chimes: Nature-Symphony 53

(Note that there is now an improved version of this —https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/734257/)
Nature-Symphony 53 ("Yon bright mountain calls from afar, its distance vast!") — A real surprising one this, because it takes a somewhat longer version of my Nature-Symphony 1 (The inner fire wistfully seeks to define itself), using that as Layer 1, then adds two layers of the same recording with further reduced speed / pitch. It's thus much denser in its overall sound — except that the many quieter periods in each layer make for various views through gaps in the forest, to keep getting good views of what's happening in the other two layers. In particular, also I somewhat quietened Layers 2 and 3 to ensure that Layer 1 frequently shone out — like the resplendent distant higher mountain that ever beckons.

As for this work's title, I came out with a succinct quite prosaic version of what we have now, which didn't fully satisfy me, and I felt that in this case a more archaic rendering might well come out more poetically — so, being quite an ignoramus with regard to using archaic English, for a laugh I tried my new friendly assistant ChatGPT, and it was most helpful. With just a little dialogue to get it just right, it was ChatGPT that enabled me to finalize it, and the poetic rhythm and sound of that end-result was a pleasing surprise.

Chimes used:

(layers 1–3)

1+2. Music of the Spheres Gypsy Mezzo and Soprano (6 tubes each, tuned to an Eastern European Gypsy scale)

3. Woodstock Chimes of Pluto (5 tubes, moderately high-pitched, tuned to a radiant sunny-sounding pentatonic scale. Not to be confused with the larger and very different-sounding Davis Blanchard Pluto chimes that also figure in some of my Nature-Symphonies)

4+5. Indonesian bamboo chimes, large and small (6 tubes each, rather indeterminate tuning but often with hints of whole-tone scale)

I made the original recording on 18 February 2013 (https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/700528/ ), at Hunter's Tor, near the Hunter's Path and Castle Drogo, Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK.

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

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

Techie stuff:

Recorder was a Sony PCM-M10, with Rode DeadKitten furry windshield (original, more effective version), and it was placed on a Velbon Mini tripod.

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

Layer 1: half-speed, giving an octave pitch reduction. Acoustic: back-of-cathedral

Layer 2: Speed to give pitch reduction of an octave plus fifth below original. Acoustic: moderate back-of-cathedral

Layer 3: Ditto, with further octave pitch reduction, totalling two octaves plus a fifth below original. Acoustic: middling foreground in cathedral

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