Playing an Oven Rack for a Movie Soundtrack

(oven rack grill sounds) Hey guys, it's Dale. Today on the channel we are going to make an audio collage and we are going to use a singular source. We are going to play it a number of different ways record that sound and then heavily manipulate it into a long-play ambient collage. The item that i have chosen for this recording is The oven grill. There is an infinite amount of interesting sounds out there that we can use to record. And, there is an infinite number of possibilities in ways you can

manipulate something into sounding... (oven-grill sound) Rather than just going to the sample library and grabbing some other cool sound that somebody else recorded then manipulating it... Why not try making your own sounds. It will be unlike anything else anybody does. If you take your oven grill and you hook it up like this you are going to get a different sound than I got. (oven rack chiming) I am going to attach these, maybe I'll use a rubber band so that there is direct contact with the mi

crophones. We are wingin' it folks. But I think it is going to be super cool. That is what audio is. It is a little bit of experimentation every time. If you do the same thing every time, you will never make new discoveries. That's not to say that if you don't have a workflow that is tried and true you won;t get stuff done, but it's fun to experiment and try some different things. (oven rack sound) A little bit about metallic sounds... they have a different harmonic structure than most musical i

nstruments do ...as far as the upper pieces of notes they emphasize. So with a normal musical instrument it will emphasize the root fundamental note of the sound and then an octave up, and then a fifth above that, and a fourth above that, and then a major third above that, and so on. How those partials stack is what makes the tonality of say a flute, or a organ, or whatever... ...a guitar. So, with metal it is a little different. The structure of the harmonics is a little more chaotic and weird

and uncontrollable. So it is hard to make it sound musical. But sometimes that gives a little dissonance and a little edge or uncertainty to the sound that we sort of like. You imagine a bell has that. A bell is optimized (made) with bronze and that's what cymbals are also made out of. Let's just get to it. Here we go. I am going to start with my fingers. (oven grill sound collage ambiance)