It’s been an extremely busy and creative time for me. Over the past year I’ve been recording and designing three new libraries!
The first and biggest is Monsters! A collection of vocalizations depicting a variety of creatures from Banshees to Zombies. This was an enormously fun project that allowed me to record farm animals, friends, props and myself. There was plenty of experimentation to blend real world recordings with delicate processing. Hopefully creating believable, organic and exciting sounds in the end.
During all that time I’ve been recording Binaural Sounds with a 3Dio Microphone. By simulating human ears the mics capture sound similar to how we hear them. This creates a 3D illusion of sound all around you while listening on headphones. With that in mind I captured forests and neighborhood ambiences, rain storms in my car, pop rocks crackling, balloons squealing and much more. These types of sounds would be really useful for podcasts or anything where headphones wold be the main source of listening.
Finally there is a collection of Tape Loop sounds. This began as an excerise to make sounds away from the computer. During the summer of 2020 I wanted to focus on sometime “tangible” in sound. So splicing cassette tapes felt like a fun way to discover something new and use my hands in audio. The result is a collection of musical loops, scratchy ambiences and warped noises from a tape deck. The patterns developed from this technique are very spontaneous and the entire process was a joy.
These collections are the result of an entire year of experimentation and I hope they bring a lot of inspiration to whoever uses them. Now onto the next batch of noises!