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Sound Clips: Champignon Cutting and Champignon Cutting Phase Shifted by Michael Peters
The first clip is close mic recording cutting champignon mushrooms for dinner. The second recording is phase shifted it using granular synthesis.
nice. lots of sampling possibilities in there…tonal and rhythmic. The second example resembles a “chopped” up goose in some ways.
I love this first recording! Did you use a very blung knife to get such squeaky sounds out of your mushrooms? And do you mind if I include this post in my Zine article on sonic tuck?
[...] I hope to be able to feature this popcorn recording over on the Binaural Diaries of Ollie Hall, these squeaky mushrooms over on the delectable SOUND AS ART blog and this cooking egg complete with (I think) smoke alarm going off at the end over at Joe [...]
hi Felix, don’t remember which knife I used but it was a regular kitchen knife. Please post this wherever you want
-Michael
Wow, I do love champignons, din’t know they sounded so good too ! I processed these sounds a bit, I’ll submit them, maybe they can be found here shortly, otherwise I’ll put them on freesound. Thanks !
Great sound!! I smiled as soon as I pressed ‘play’
Brilliant! This is one of the best postings in a very long time!
[...] gesucht. Einziger Netzfund bislang: In Margaret Nobles “Sound is Art” Blog gibt es Champignons des in Köln beheimateten Musikers Michael Peters, den der eine oder die andere vielleicht vor [...]