rain, clouds was composed and designed for a sound sculpture, still incomplete, entitled conversation piece. There are several components to the piece: first, a field recording of a thunderstorm as it passed over the Harold Arts site in 2006, recorded via piezoelectric microphones waxed onto a pair of brass bowls. The recording was analyzed to find specific gaps in the harmonic spectrum and a granular composition was synthesized (using Curtis Roads‘s freeware program CloudGenerator) to complement these gaps. The composition was then mixed into the field recording, and the resultant piece is played back through the original brass bowls utilized in the recording, causing the playback to spatialize in an uncanny fashion. Hear the piece (as played back through your laptop/speakers, of course, not through the brass bowls it is meant to be played back through) below.
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Jacob Wick is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.
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