What you can do with sound is fantastic. That is probably why most of you read the Vital Weekly and why you are interested in at least a part of what is considered experimental or avant-garde in some way. R4, Barry D. Scheffel from Ohio, chose a rain shower in May 2024 as the sole sound source for this release. After that part, I have no clue whether it’s all in the digital domain or if it’s analogue gear or pedals… But I’ll tell you why I like this release.
Each of the three tracks is called “Rainmaker” with a number, but each track has a different style with that same sound source. The first one is very noisy with a significant buildup and, at moments, unrecognizable from where it started. The second iteration is way more a drone and gives better insight into what that sound source sounded like. Yet still, it’s way more of a drone with field recordings, of which we know that the drone is also generated from those field recordings. The third track is weird. If it’s only the field recording, that was one HELL of a rain shower, but it’s a bit more probable that Barry took those recordings in a more pure form and started building and layering this more soundscape-like exercise.
So, there you have it. An experiment pur sang. You have a sound; what can you do with it? You could make noise, drones and soundscapes … Why not choose d) All of the above?
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