Product Review - Gas Tank Orchestra
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| Electronic Musician | 4.5 out of 5 | Zack Price |
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What are you doing with all the junk that you and society in general have generated? Gregory John Wildes is turning civilization's discarded items into musical instruments. Wildes took abandoned automobile gas tanks, cleaned them out, and turned them into resonator cavities for a variety of homemade percussion, string, and wind instruments. Wildes then sampled individual notes of some instruments and created loops performed on all instruments. The result is Gas Tank Orchestra ($99.95), a combination audio and WAV two-CD set. All of the WAV files have been "acidized" so that they can be readily used in Sonic Foundry's Acid. (However, there is no documentaion for loop tempos.) Precious Metals The sounds are organized into familiar instrumental categories, but the sounds themselves evoke only a vague sense of their namesake. For example, at no time would you mistake any of the 42 Drum Spots for realistic bass drums, snare drums, or tom-toms. The disc's 55 Drum Lines offer rhythmic patterns that bear little resemblance to conventional drum loops. Nonetheless, that is part of charm of this collection. The Drum, Kalimba, Bass, Harp, and Zither samples all sound clanky, metallic, and off-kilter. This shouldn't be surprising ? |
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