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Nature-Symphony 52 (The sound of one mountain applauding its climbers) — In its really active periods it's only moderately less challenging than Nature-Symphony 51, with a sense of great elation, in its combination and deployment of a musically very potent sextet of metal wind chimes, with ever-evolving, protoplasmic relationship between dissonance and visionary combinations of harmonies. However, the overall sound is mostly more gentle than that of the previous two Nature-Symphonies.
For the benefit of those not already 'in the know', this work's title and the background images used on my YouTube video of it are a humorous reference to the Zen koan (riddle), "What is the sound of one hand clapping?". It is effectively thus a compound koan, doubling the effect of the original — which is highly beneficial provided one doesn't spend extended periods focusing on it. Actually the latter use would be harmful with any such koan or logically impossible riddle, regardless of the fact that certain traditions use them that way and believe such use to be highly beneficial! (That use brings roughly the same problems as regular meditation (see https://www.clarity-of-being.org/glossary.htm#meditation ).
Chimes used:
(layers 1–3 — Note that there's a Layer 4, but that is simply two short — the second one very short — clips from an earlier bamboo chimes recording.)
1+2. Music of the Spheres Gypsy Mezzo and Soprano (6 tubes each, tuned to an Eastern European Gypsy scale)
3. Woodstock Chimes of Pluto (5 tubes, moderately high-pitched, tuned to a radiant sunny-sounding pentatonic scale. Not to be confused with the larger and very different-sounding Davis Blanchard Pluto chimes that also figure in some of my Nature-Symphonies)
4. Woodstock Chimes of Polaris (5 tubes, high-pitched, tuned to a radiant pentatonic scale)
5. Woodstock Chimes of Mercury (5 tubes, very high-pitched, tuned to a radiant pentatonic scale)
6. Woodstock Chimes of Mars (5 tubes, very high-pitched, tuned to a scale I can't identify. A very significant feature is its two top notes, a semitone apart. That gives hints of 'major' scale in ensembles)
I made the original recording on 10 December 2013 (https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/695733/ ), on rough steep ground just below Hunting Gate, highest point on the Hunter's Path, Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK.
Advisory
To get the best out of this, with its mass of detail, listen with high-grade headphones.
A different recording (the one after this) taking place in the same session. The recorder (light grey furry windshield, left) is perched on a small branch rather than on a tripod. We're looking down a quite steep slope from just by Hunting Gate.
Zoomed-in view from same position. The chimes with black tubes are the Gypsy ones — the Mezzo being the largest and loudest and so placed furthest from the recorder; the Woodstock chimes are Polaris (left) and Mars (centre). This recording also contains the Pluto and Mercury chimes.
Techie stuff:
Recorder was a Sony PCM-D100, with two nested custom Windcut furry windshields, and it was placed on a Zipshot Mini tripod.
Post-recording processing was to apply EQ in Audacity to correct for the muffling effect of the windshields.
Layer 1: half-speed, giving an octave pitch reduction. Acoustic: back-of-cathedral
Layer 2: Speed to give pitch reduction of an octave plus minor sixth below original. Acoustic: middling foreground in cathedral
Layer 3: Ditto, with further octave pitch reduction, totalling two octaves plus minor sixth below original. Acoustic: moderate back-of-cathedral
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This recording can be used free of charge, provided that it's not part of a materially profit-making project, and it is properly and clearly attributed. The attribution must give my name (Philip Goddard) and link to https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/733796/
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Flac (.flac)
Duration
65:26.090
File size
167.8 MB
Sample rate
44100.0 Hz
Bit depth
16 bit
Channels
Stereo