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Nature-Symphony 64 (The inner fire's unending quest for its own meaning) — This is Layer 2 from Nature-Symphony 63 (https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/745235/ ), which itself is a much longer remake of Nature-Symphony 1 (https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/700688/ ), at quarter- instead of half-speed, and a major third lower in pitch than the latter work. Consequently the timbres are all somewhat different, and this comes across as a weightier work, though still with the same endearing slight wistfulness of feel.
Chimes used:
1. Music of the Spheres Mezzo and Soprano chimes (6 tubes, tuned to melancholy-sounding Eastern European Gypsy scale).
2. 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)
3. Indonesian bamboo chimes, large and small (6 tubes each, with rather indeterminate tuning, though with hints of the whole-tone scale)
I made the original recording (https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/700528/ ) on 18 February 2013, at Hunter's Tor, near the Hunter's Path quite near Castle Drogo, high up on north side of the Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK.
Advisory
To get the best out of this, with its mass of detail, listen with high-grade headphones.
The original 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 Røde DeadKitten furry windshield. 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 windshield, and more recent processing with A1 Stereo Control to greatly improve the atrocious stereo imaging of the PCM-M10.
Only one layer: quarter-speed, but pitch-shifted to give pitch an octave plus major third below original. So, compared with Nature-Symphony 1, this is half the speed of the latter, but only a major third lower in pitch.
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Type
Flac (.flac)
Duration
102:47.720
File size
221.1 MB
Sample rate
44100.0 Hz
Bit depth
16 bit
Channels
Stereo