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As someone who writes electronic music and is pretty familiar with synths, effects and DSP in general, I call bullshit on the title of the article. It should re
by ccbccccbbcccbb 4y ago
As someone who writes electronic music and is pretty familiar with synths, effects and DSP in general, I call bullshit on the title of the article. It should read:
"A whole bunch of synths and/or samplers, stereo panned and processed with a whole stack of effects, using a sped-up recording of Earth's magnetic field as a trigger of said generators".
This is not even remotely the sound of Earth's magnetic field.
- queuebert 4y agoCan you link to where you found their methods? I can't find anywhere where they said what they did. (Generously assuming you're not just sh*tting on them for no reason.)
- ccbccccbbcccbb 4y agoI hear what they did. There are distinct generators placed in various places in the sound stage, with reverbs on them, with sound that is characteristic of granular synthesis. Even if you are not familiar with these methods, just think about it: even if soumeone would genuinely just bring the inaudible frequencies of a recording of magnetosphic waves into audible domain by speeding it up, without any processing, where would this lush stereo imaging come from? It would be plain and simply monophonic. Moreover, they don't quite make it secret that this is not the actual sound of the magnetosphere: >Musician and project supporter Klaus Nielsen, from the Technical University of Denmark, explains, “The team used data from ESA’s Swarm satellites, as well as other sources, and used these magnetic signals to manipulate and control a sonic representation of the core field.
- ccbccccbbcccbb 4y agoHere is what genuine recording would sound like, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llXu9pSvF54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llXu9pSvF54 I do realize though, that many people won't hear any difference.
- hot_gril 4y agoWell the last 2 seconds were interesting, sounded just like an iMovie sound effect!
- queuebert 4y agoMy interpretation of the text was that the stereo imaging came from the different locations on the Earth, so some left to right mapping by longitude maybe?
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