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https://soundcloud.com/mark_hayes/wind-harp

An experiment in the use of non-performance recordings – in this case, of a large wind harp – as material for UserTracks.

No attempt was made to have the audio material correspond in any way with the chords in the UserTrack template – I just paired a couple of SGU files with audio files of sufficient length and let BIAB think it was working with a compliant performance.

The bell-like wind harp sounds here are from a 1972 record "Song From the Hill", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID-kZ2ySHL0. Apologies for the distortion but I pulled this material from ancient vinyl.

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Computer music concrete.
Interesting.


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Originally Posted By: rayc
Computer music concrete


This does remind me of what what they used to do with scissors and splicing tape in the 40's, when people would still call a tape recorder a musical instrument.

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Interesting.

I have one question, is this legal? I'm not trying to rain on your parade, those wind harps sound pretty good, but if you put them up on the usertrack forum would PGM and/or you get into trouble? I don't know, just asking.


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Originally Posted By: MarioD

I have one question, is this legal? I'm not trying to rain on your parade, those wind harps sound pretty good, but if you put them up on the usertrack forum would PGM and/or you get into trouble? I don't know, just asking.


I suppose a case could me made that it's not, but Jeez, these might as well be old granular snippets of wind in the trees. No qualms do I have about this sort of personal use. I wouldn't be sharing the UserTracks as such, though, since they do contain the complete original recordings.

That wind harp, which started out in Vermont, is currently on a hill in New Hampshire, a few miles from me, having been destroyed and reconstructed a few times over the decades. I know it well. It would be nice to go out there one day with really good audio equipment and make some new recordings.

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Sounds like something from the early Twightlight Zone shows.


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Originally Posted By: Scott C
Sounds like something from the early Twightlight Zone shows.


Hey, that would be an honor, I love that music.

Here's somebody who did not like the old record very much:

http://stereosanctity.blogspot.com/2007/11/wind-harp-songs-from-hill-united.html

“It is undoubtedly a spiritual sound, just not in a way that I suspect either the record company nor the hippies were anticipating. Certainly anyone sticking this on to accompany a meditation session or drug trip would get more than they bargained for; bummers, paranoia, bloody noses; all are possibilities. For however much we may be taught to view nature, and atmospheric conditions / weather systems in particular, as an entirely beautiful, harmonious system through which we can gain understanding of ourselves via an impression of dissolution within it’s patterns, it swiftly becomes clear upon dropping the needle that the sounds emerging from this here Wind Harp were REALLY F*CKING MALEVOLENT.”

“Regardless of questions of authenticity though, The Wind Harp certainly makes for a hell of a listen, and comes recommended should you be feeling a little too comfortable in your life, and in need of a glimpse of the blind, chaotic and ultimately destructive natural forces at the mercy of whose temporary placidity we erect our fragile civilisations.”

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Originally Posted By: Scott C
Sounds like something from the early Twightlight Zone shows.


yep...


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Imagine, if you will, a world...

a world where a man looks like a dog

in a sailor cap...

with a star....

a world beyond sight and sound and dimension

a world where tiny bands live in a box and wind harps speak in the voices of demons

some say it is not real

unless

you have entered

high as kite

into

The Twilight Zone

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The wind harp itself more recently, in New Hampshire. Photo by George Ewald.

(I notice I had to scale down the image to get it to display inline here. Anyone know where that cutoff is?)

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