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For those who are into making this kind of "music":

What is your method in making it? I'm currently making an album of ambient/noise material and I mostly use and rape samples to produce horrific results, placing them in a "structure"...however I'd like to learn some new methods as this is hit and miss and frankly...a little random!!

record alot of random shit, then use fruity loops and put it together ill post something im using for my bands demo soon

I've been doing some stuff like this a lot recently. I love messing with samples, its fun seeing what strange sounds you can come up with.

I have sampled various things using my old MD recorder and crappy microphone, and then played around with that sound using Cool Edit Pro.

I find often the most interesting and varied sounds are vocal sounds. When they have been reversed, slowed down, re-sampled and filtered to oblivion you can end with something that sounds quite freakish and unlike the starting sample. If it is purely the noise that you want you can record yourself at varying tones and speeds to create an enormous range of sounds.

As a starting point for something like this I try and find a reasonable chunk of sound that I like. I can then get a few takes of that sample (some more compressed or stretched) and then layer these up and pan and fade these tracks in and out. That can rapidly give a large sound scape sort of feel...swelling in and out and such. If I then have a particular idea in mind I can further fade the final mix of this in and out with something else.

I tend to just keep repeating this process over and over until the final product is interesting enough.

I would love to hear what you have come up with though! And I should get around to posting some of what I have done.

http://www.myspace.com/scoir

VERY VERY VERY ROUGH RIGHT NOW. More vocals/instrumentation will be added.

Pisshead wrote:www.myspace.com/scoir

VERY VERY VERY ROUGH RIGHT NOW. More vocals/instrumentation will be added.

Thats pretty neat. Some of the vocals really freaked me out! It does sound almost as if each noise is being used as an instrument in some strange random kind of way. I'd love to hear more!

I finally uploaded something: http://www.soundclick.com/blazingmonga

Check out "This Could Be The Biggest Mango" @ 'Music' and tell me what you think.

I had a hard time compressing it to fit into the required 10MB limit, so I think the sound quality has suffered at a few bits. Oh well, better than nothing!

Holy shit man, you think my vocals freak you out?! I just listened to the track you suggested, it sounds like what I set out to do when I first started making that ambient album.

Really, that voice technique is amazing, I only used a little distortion on mine.

Blazingmonga wrote:

Pisshead wrote:www.myspace.com/scoir

VERY VERY VERY ROUGH RIGHT NOW. More vocals/instrumentation will be added.

Thats pretty neat. Some of the vocals really freaked me out! It does sound almost as if each noise is being used as an instrument in some strange random kind of way. I'd love to hear more!

I finally uploaded something: http://www.soundclick.com/blazingmonga

Check out "This Could Be The Biggest Mango" @ 'Music' and tell me what you think.

I had a hard time compressing it to fit into the required 10MB limit, so I think the sound quality has suffered at a few bits. Oh well, better than nothing!

Your music slightly reminded me of Megaptera, which is to say that I loved it. I wan't able to hear your stuff, Pisshead, as MySpace was being a little...pissy with the bandwidth.

Oh, and I know very little about recording, sorry.

Pisshead wrote:Holy shit man, you think my vocals freak you out?! I just listened to the track you suggested, it sounds like what I set out to do when I first started making that ambient album.

Really, that voice technique is amazing, I only used a little distortion on mine.

Thanks! I will probably make some more soon. I am just practising at the moment, but it is addictive fun making this stuff. I love fucking with peoples heads. The more I learn, the more head-fucked things get.

I've had some good fun combining a Danelectro Dan Echo pedal with the Boss Digital Sampler/Delay (DSD-2) to get various noise. FruityLoops is also good if you get the Scratcher playing a drone, then layer all sorts of distortions on that.