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On Tue, 21 Aug, 2007 at 10:55PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms spake thus:

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> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:07:04PM +0100, james@dis-dot-dat.net wrote:

>

> > > http://www.archive.org/details/aliethno

> > > http://www.archive.org/download/aliethno/thorwil__aliethno.ogg

> >

> > How are you creating these sounds?  I love them!

>

> Thanks :)

>

> The lead is a watercan somewhat similar to this one:

> http://www.daylily-discounters.com/images/watercan1.jpg

> but made of plastic. I 'played' it using a wet towel on the handle.

> This caused the partly water-filled body to resonate, an effect I

> discovered while cleaning the living room :)

I can honestly say that I would never have thought of using a wet

towel and a watering can to make music, let alone to clean my living

room :)
> There are some effects on it, but they don't alter the sound much.

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> The wet signal is fed through a delay before the reverb to have a

> big room without muddying up the main signal. That's what it's

> supposed to achieve, at least :)

>

> Everything else is made of samples from my Windows days, as this

> thing started as a Cubase session (without the can). Quite a number

> of effects on it, most notably several instances of an Auto Phaser.

>

> The idea behind it was and is to make some kind of alien ethno

> music :)

Well, it certainly sounds like it.  You should create some sample

packs - there are some very beautiful sounds in there that the rest of

us probably wouldn't happen upon or imagine.