Empty Halls / Open Air( disquiet0255 ) by modulation_index

Process:

Zoom H5n handheld recorder (with the X/Y capsule), pointed into the resonating cavity of my grandfather's banjo. I improvised with a tuning fork, pressing it against the banjo's membrane and the metal components around the rim and dragging it along the surface of the skin. I also made some recordings of the lowest string being resonated by an ebow while performing the same manipulations with the tuning fork.

I pulled various bits from this long recording and convolved each of them together to smear the source material. Once I had this second iteration of recordings, I imported them into Audacity and manually assembled a collage of the sounds. The final mix is slowed down by 25%.

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