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Broken Piano in Hedge

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TJ Mothy

October 2nd, 2009

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Music > Solo instrument
Bristol, North Somerset, England, United Kingdom

11 minute recording of me messing about with a smashed up piano that was dumped in a hedge near Bristol. There are no tunes, just noises! I can't play a piano anyway, let alone a smashed up one stuck in a hedge at a funny angle. Recorded in 16bit WAV on Edirol R-1 and Sony ECM-MS907. Sample has not be processed at all. Small amount of wind noise towards the end. It gets better as it goes along... At about 6:30 into the recording there's a really loud bit and I scared a whole load of crows up into the air from some nearby trees, you can just hear them, squawking around in the sky afterwards. Its a shame they aren't a bit louder in the recording though.

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broken-piano
field-recording
found-sounds
improv
improvisation
improvised
piano

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

11:29.475

File size

116.0 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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Ultima2876

13 years, 7 months ago

That's really really cool! You could totally use it in a survival horror game...

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maples86

15 years ago

wow, some kind of psycho killer slaughtering human and like chickens and eat the flesh. This is wat came into my mind when i listen to this. Nice!

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Drewzle

15 years, 10 months ago

awesome work TJMothy, i love these sort of sounds...and the story that goes with it is terrific! some chops of this are definitely gonna be thrown into Bhajis for manipulation...some minimal beats underneath, perhaps some flamming of certain piano tones :)

TJ Mothy

15 years, 11 months ago

Hey cheers for the nice comments guys, makes me want to do some more stuff like this!

digifishmusic

15 years, 11 months ago

Awesome. You have composed a masterpiece there too :)

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