This is the first one.

I started this off in supercollider. It's a free program that is like the rabbit hole from Alice in wonderland. Once you get in you realize that nothing is what you thought it was. You basically have to write out your sounds and sequences and everything in object-oriented computer code, like C+. This sound started off with a simple sin wave and I repeatedly added in modulations into every place I could. I added a couple of filters which I also modulated and then exported the sound and brought it into ableton live. I filtered the high end and sent that to another track which I applied some spectral filtering (ie: I used a plugin that applies a convoluted process to separate the sound into a tons of thin frequency bands and applies different effects to the different bands). I then filtered the low end and sent that to a track and put a tesla coil plug in on it. Those of you who read my blog saw the awesome musical tesla coil video I posted. This plugin basically turns the audio you send to it into a digital equivalent of what happens in a musical tesla coil. I mixed those three things (the original, the spectral filtered and the teslafied) into one, and applied a bit of compression and reverb and voila! You have a very weird sound.

Here's the wav file for anyone who wants to mess with this at all:

http://www.mediafire.com/?zwmtmzzwdoy


Stay tuned for more in depth analysis of the upcoming sounds.