Riding a bus in Japan from one airport terminal to another. It was about an hour and a half ride through the city. Read More…
By Travis
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Posted in Field Recordings
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Tagged airport, bus, bus stop, field recording, grandma, Japan, japanese, leaving, limousine bus, okinawa, okinawa japan, riding, riding bus, ryukyu, speeking, talking, terminal
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Me taking chips out of a bag and eating them. You can hear me crunching on them and going back for more. Crispy crunchy sound! :) Read More…
By Travis
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Posted in Field Recordings
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Tagged bag, chew, chips, crunch, crunching, crunchy, eat, eating, eating-chips, food, kitchen, mouth, potato chips, ruffling
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An ice cream truck was coming through our neighborhood, when it came down our street I ran outside and recorded it as it passed our house. The melody you hear is the sound it was playing to announce it was in the neighborhood. Read More…
By Travis
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Posted in Field Recordings
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Tagged chime, cream, ice, ice cream van, icecream, melodic, Music, neighborhood, residential, road, song, street, summer, truck, tune, van, vending
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Concrete music vs. modern arrangement and remixing. I use many natural field recordings and slice and dice them to create a meticulous rhythm and beat. Read More…
Lately, I have been composing tracks that fall into the “Musique concrete” genre. Concrete music is music created with “real world” sounds, natural environmental sounds, and other noises that are not inherently musical. I love composing with “real world” sounds, because for me, it reflects the rhythm and heartbeat of our every day lives, our routines, movement etc… I started composing with […] Read More…
By Travis
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Posted in Blog
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Tagged avant-garde, concrete music, environmental sounds, genre, listen to, Music, Musique concrete, noise, sounds, the art of noise, types of music
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On my way to work I got stopped at a railroad crossing. This is the recording I took of the train going by. It is quite intense. If you listen to the whole thing you will hear a lot of metal scraping and screeching sounds. I thought the train was going to derail. Recorded in Rockford, Illinois with an H2 Zoom. Read More…
By Travis
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Posted in Field Recordings
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Tagged bass, cab, coach, crossing, deep, derail, engine, express, fast, field recording, field recordings, Found objects, freight, gears, illinois, industrial, intense, locomotive, metal, noise music, rail, railroad, rockford, sampling, scraping, screeching, skreeching, sound art, soundscapes, station, tracks, train, whistle
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I composed “Trainspotting,” by using a variety of different train, track, station, railroad, etc… type sounds. This song falls into the Musique concrète genre. I hope you enjoy the ride. Read More…
By Travis
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Posted in Music
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Tagged Acoustic ecology, ambient, Biomusic, bullettrain, concrete music, experimental, fast, Found objects, industrial, monorail, Music, Musique concrete, natural, noise music, railfan, railroad, sampling, sound art, soundscapes, trainspotters, trainspotting
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Airport ambiance, children talking, an announcement, and just an overall ambient airport terminal experience. Read More…
By Travis
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Posted in Field Recordings
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Tagged airport, ambiance, announcement, field recording, field recordings, Japan, japanese, japanese airport, muffled talking, sfx, sound, sounds
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Wataru Lights reflects the motion and sounds of Japanese traffic lights and intersections. It is composed of many of the field recordings I took while in Okinawa, Japan. Read More…
By Travis
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Posted in Music
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Tagged abstract, Acoustic ecology, ambient, Biomusic, concrete music, crosswalk, experimental, field recordings, Found objects, industrial, Japan, japanese, japanese traffic lights, Music, Musique concrete, noise music, okinawa, sampling, song, sound art, soundscapes, track, traffic light sounds, traffic lights, Wataru Lights
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Demonstrating the art of sound (Concrete Music), Daily Transit is entirely composed of my field recordings with the exception of the organ and drum beat. Read More…
By Travis
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Posted in Music
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Tagged Acoustic ecology, ambient, art of sound, avant-garde, Biomusic, concrete music, drum beat, experimental. Phonography, field recordings, Found objects, industrial, Music, Musique concrete, noise music, Phonography music, sampling, sound art, soundscape, soundscapes, track
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I’m delighted to introduce another one of my dub\dubstep\glitch tracks, “chemical reaction.” Can you feel the chemistry? Read More…
Fusing electronic, hip-hop, and glitch together, I present to you, “Intercellular,” serving a pleasant outlandish beat. Read More…
The secret hideout is that place we all go when we need time alone or somewhere to hide, whether it be a physical or mental place. I created some of the beat with basketball sounds. It has kind of a urban fantasy feel. Read More…
We’ve all had em, lonely days. Since there are many types of lonely feelings, some of us may even feel a loneliness everyday. So, this is a tribute to you and I on those lonely days… Read More…
My track, “In the dark (at the club)” has kind of a dub feel and when I listen to it I imagine myself taken away by the darkness of some club. Read More…
By Travis
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Posted in Music
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Tagged 2step, club, dark, download, dub, dubstep, grime, In the dark at the club, listen, Music, reggae
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Pressure falls into the dubstep genre with hints of glitch. Mysterious vocals, subtle glitches, and a dubstep flavor forms this wicked movement. I had a lot of fun making this song. Read More…
My track, “String Mechanics” breaks out some strings and plays em dub. Read More…
By Travis
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Posted in Music
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Tagged bass, cello, download free music, download music, dub, dubstep, experimental, glitch, grime, Music, reggae, String Mechanics, strings, tones, tracks, viola, violin
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I am a philosopher, poet, musician, phonographer, designer, an artist. When I am composing music, creating a track, the process is very much like that of when I am painting a picture, writing a poem, or designing an art piece. Except now, sounds are my paint and my ears are my guide. How I arrange […] Read More…
By Travis
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Posted in Blog
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Tagged arrangement, arranging, art, beat, composing, composing music, creating music, experimentation, guiding hand, heartbeat, Heartbeat of Sound, how to create music, melody, Music, noise, painting, picture, poem, poetry, rhythm, sound, the art of sound, vibrations
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CCMixter.org is another great place to download and share sounds and music. You can download sounds and use them in your own audio projects. What I really like about CCMixter is that any sounds you use to create a song, if you upload the completed song back to their website, there is an option to […] Read More…
By Travis
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Posted in Blog
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Tagged CCMixter, CCMixter.org, Creative Commons, credit, download, download sounds, field recordings, free sounds, Music, music artist, remixes, review, sfx, upload, website
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Freesound.org is an awesome place to download free sounds. I have downloaded a lot of sounds from there that I use in my music projects and track\song compositions. They are great quality and there is a huge selection. Because of this, I felt it was only right to give back by uploading my own sounds […] Read More…