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BILDOZER
Joined: Nov 06, 2007 Posts: 18 Location: Houston
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:17 pm Post subject:
The sound of electricity Subject description: Wondering how to synthesize the sound of electricity. |
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Anyone know how to synthesize the sound of electricity? The tesla coil sounding, vibrating, arcing sound? I've been wondering about this for years and never have produced any results worth noting. I'm specifically wanting a way to do it with basic, or modular synthesis. I would rather not have to build a soft synth to do it. |
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ian-s
Joined: Apr 01, 2004 Posts: 2669 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:47 pm Post subject:
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BILDOZER wrote: | Anyone know how to synthesize the sound of electricity? The tesla coil sounding, vibrating, arcing sound? I've been wondering about this for years and never have produced any results worth noting. I'm specifically wanting a way to do it with basic, or modular synthesis. I would rather not have to build a soft synth to do it. |
Here is one I did a while ago using the intro from "the terminator has returned'" by Snap as a reference.
If you have the free G2 demo you can load and tweak.
The basic tone is white noise mixed with 6KHz sine (-12dB) which is then ring modulated twice, first with a 600Hz sine then a 120Hz exponential sawtooth.
The tone is then chopped randomly for a stutter effect, then highpass and comb filtered.
A little reverb at the end.
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Wayne Higgins
Joined: Aug 16, 2007 Posts: 270 Location: Greenville, FL
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:34 am Post subject:
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that's good! |
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blue hell
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Joined: Apr 03, 2004 Posts: 24081 Location: The Netherlands, Enschede
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject:
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g2ian wrote: | The tone is then chopped randomly |
This not only is a very nice electricity sound IMO, but the chopper seems to be just right for random speech _________________ Jan
also .. could someone please turn down the thermostat a bit.
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BILDOZER
Joined: Nov 06, 2007 Posts: 18 Location: Houston
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 12:05 pm Post subject:
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Now I have been teased and I want a G2. |
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kijjaz
Joined: Sep 20, 2004 Posts: 765 Location: bangkok, thailand
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject:
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Ohh.. that's a really nice sounding one! |
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seraph
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blue hell
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:12 pm Post subject:
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Cute dog, looks a bit young, so maybe still easy to scare off _________________ Jan
also .. could someone please turn down the thermostat a bit.
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seraph
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:36 pm Post subject:
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Blue Hell wrote: | Cute dog, looks a bit young, so maybe still easy to scare off |
he's a three months old golden retriever _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
Quote: | Don't die with your music still in you - Wayne Dyer |
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Karel
Joined: Sep 30, 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Hilversum, Netherlands
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:14 am Post subject:
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BILDOZER wrote: | Anyone know how to synthesize the sound of electricity? The tesla coil sounding, vibrating, arcing sound? I've been wondering about this for years and never have produced any results worth noting. I'm specifically wanting a way to do it with basic, or modular synthesis. I would rather not have to build a soft synth to do it. |
An Australian composer using electronics ( her name has something to do with Rose), once made recordings of electromagnetic fields using coils as transducers. The fields where caused by industrial things like computer chips or railway overhead cables.
The results are beautiful and typical of female ingenuity in electronic music.
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blue hell
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Joined: Apr 03, 2004 Posts: 24081 Location: The Netherlands, Enschede
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject:
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Karel wrote: | An Australian composer using electronics ( her name has something to do with Rose), once made recordings of electromagnetic fields using coils as transducers. The fields where caused by industrial things like computer chips or railway overhead cables. |
Would like to hear that, just spent a few hours Googling on it, but all I could find was just 'related'
A sound sample is on this page , search for 'coil' there. _________________ Jan
also .. could someone please turn down the thermostat a bit.
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Wayne Higgins
Joined: Aug 16, 2007 Posts: 270 Location: Greenville, FL
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:16 am Post subject:
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When Cleo (the Chow) was a small pup, I put on a Mingus cd. It was live and began with Mingus introducing the song. She was in the room, looked up, barked, and ran out of the room. I had to find her, she was hiding. For a while, I carefully picked what to play. |
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kijjaz
Joined: Sep 20, 2004 Posts: 765 Location: bangkok, thailand
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:56 pm Post subject:
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One day I was playing a CD in the room.
It was Indian Bamboo Flute (Bansuri) by Hariprasad Chaurasia in his classical indian concert.
My dog (a chi hua hua) stared at me if there were something wrong..
but I didn't know, I thought he wanted to pee
so I asked him if it's so, but he said 'no' ..
(hmm yeah my dog said no but not by speaking -_-")
and I couldn't figure out what he wanted.
then he came up with the idea of speaking what's on his mind.
He ran to the stereo
Stare at the music
and Ran back to me
and show this "I don't approve" look on his face.
I guessed my dog just showed me his music preference the first time. |
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Wayne Higgins
Joined: Aug 16, 2007 Posts: 270 Location: Greenville, FL
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 6:37 am Post subject:
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Cleo actually loves it when I pull out the sitar. Lies at my feet and drifts into dreamland. Cleo and Munchkin (a cat - Ragdoll) critique my music regularly. If Munchkin starts pawing at me, it's good. When they leave the room, it's time to start over. |
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XpanderXT
Joined: Oct 22, 2007 Posts: 137 Location: the flat universe
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both of my black labs used howl along when I played sax in the house.
It wasn't that I was a bad player, I think they just liked to be a part of the performance. |
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renevanderwouden
Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 186 Location: Gouda (NL)
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renevanderwouden
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bbinkovitz
Joined: Jun 12, 2006 Posts: 338 Location: central ohio
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smokris and i exhibited an installation at an art show called "pure" which was in boston, and as one would expect with proximity to MIT there was a lot of electro-nerd-art-stuff. one sound-art "exhibit" was a device that allowed people to listen directly to electricity. i didn't get a chance to inspect it closely, but it was big headphones + wall plug. they were ungrounded too, so basically you were plugging your head into the wall current. (yeah i know. but nobody got fried, to my knowledge).
one of the pieces from ruori's set at EM05 was called 'sinusoidial' and it was about the sound of electricity as the 'universal ohm' (lol@pun).
anyway, i think synthesizing electricity is such an amazingly meta-post-electro-modern-whatever concept. this thread is sweet. _________________ solo: http://www.myspace.com/skippyvodka
member of: http://24hoursthegirl.com
(a subsidiary of: http://ruori.org/ )
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nick karvounis
Joined: Mar 14, 2008 Posts: 2 Location: Greece
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seraph wrote: | it scared my dog away |
The notes where to high!!!!
Great sampling idea btw
ps.. cute dawg |
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anigbrowl
Joined: Jan 21, 2008 Posts: 116 Location: San Francisco, USA
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