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This interactive flash-player provides a general demonstration of the natural soundscapes from field recordings and their reconstruction through crafting tiny sounds from found object sound worlds (e.g. sticks, paper, drinking glasses, silverware, etc) to imitate both the original sounds and rhythms of the original sounds in nature. The range of transformation can move from found object reconstructions that sound close to the original natural sound, to further abstracted sound that moves away from the original natural sound and subtly closer to musical (i.e. pitched) sound. This more distant transformation allows the rhythmic or cyclic pattern from the natural soundscape, for a brief period, to be presented in a more conventional human-creative sound world (i.e. with traditional musical sound), thus creating a suble layer of connection between nature and music. 

 

Begin by dragging the mouse into a left-most box (i.e. rain, bird, frog) to listen to the original field recording. Then move into the next box to hear a found object reconstruction of the original. The 'bird' example has a third box, which is a pitched reconstruction (using drinking glasses) of the rhythmic pattern of the original chirping bird field recording.

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