Recording of Mt. Ithaca on the Winter Solstice

This is my submission for the Impressions Composing Jam: Special Holiday Jam - Personal Project “The Mountain King” 

For this jam, I wanted to create something unsettling, dissonant, rhythmic, and formed solely of homemade sounds that compliment AM/FM radio recordings.

-YOUTUBE LINK-

-STORY BEHIND THE SOUND-

“They say when Mount Ithaca stands and faces the Moon on the night of a Solstice, it casts no shadows. During the summer months, living clouds of red-winged blackbirds plummet mid-flight and litter its slopes with their corpses. 

Most curious of all, townsfolk living near Mount Ithaca claim that during the Solstice, a peculiar AM radio band begins emitting otherworldly noises for a few minutes. As no recording of this phenomenon exists, I set out to capture it.” 

-TOOLS USED-

HARDWARE:

Shure SM57 Microphone

General Electric 7-4636d AM/FM Radio Alarm Clock 

VST SYNTHS:

Synth1 by Daichi Laboratory (Subtractive Synthesis)

FM8 by Native Instruments (FM Synthesis)

Prism [Reaktor instrument] by Native Instruments (Physical Modeling Synthesis)

TX16Wx by CWITEC (Sampler) 

VST EFFECTS:

MCombMB by Melda (Comb Filter)

MRingModulatorMB by Melda (Ring Modulator)

Codec by Lese (Sample Degradation)

Room Reverb by ElephantDSP (Reverb)

RandARP by CodeFN42 (Arpeggiator) 

SAMPLES USED:

Triangle from TR-808 

DAW:

Reaper v6.77

ART:

By me