I try to make the worst wind instrument ever

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  • Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
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    I'm Nicolas Bras, musician and homemade instruments builder, on this channel you will find tutorials, compositions, building projects, improvisations, live concerts
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  • @clementmoulin3531
    @clementmoulin3531 3 роки тому +490

    It sounds like the ungodly child of a broken gameboy and a squeaky door. And it's angry at the world. I love it !

    • @NicolasBras
      @NicolasBras  3 роки тому +36

      Thanks!

    • @hesspet
      @hesspet 3 роки тому +7

      Brocken gameboy -> circuit bending, Rebuild tube by Nicolas -> Journey to unknown soundscapes....

  • @RedmarKerkhof
    @RedmarKerkhof 3 роки тому +1399

    Congratulations, you invented the didgeridon't.

  • @derisory
    @derisory 3 роки тому +772

    Dial-Up: The Musical

    • @NicolasBras
      @NicolasBras  3 роки тому +59

      That's the spirit!

    • @haydanoc8779
      @haydanoc8779 3 роки тому +3

      I can’t wait to see how this comment blows up with likes 👌🏻

    • @havokvladimirovichstalinov
      @havokvladimirovichstalinov 3 роки тому +2

      Id pay good money to see that!

    • @vegmel03
      @vegmel03 3 роки тому +12

      2:04 56kb modem that was the days

    • @MrLuigge
      @MrLuigge 3 роки тому +1

      tulululu crrrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhrrrrrrrr

  • @landonferguson7282
    @landonferguson7282 3 роки тому +230

    The challenge for me, was just watching till the end. He has perfected the ability to make irritating sounds

    • @NicolasBras
      @NicolasBras  3 роки тому +21

      This was the challenge, nailed it!

    • @roomer9484
      @roomer9484 3 роки тому

      U gud?

    • @nathanjasper512
      @nathanjasper512 3 роки тому +1

      Now you just need like 10 of them rigged up to play together all tritones and minor seconds apart, and slightly detuned for maximum annoyance.

    • @AtanaaTheCurious
      @AtanaaTheCurious 2 роки тому

      @@nathanjasper512 Now that's just evil

  • @NicMG
    @NicMG 3 роки тому +273

    It's like acoustic chipcore

    • @NicolasBras
      @NicolasBras  3 роки тому +20

      Right?

    • @benbork9835
      @benbork9835 3 роки тому

      Lmao

    • @defenestrated23
      @defenestrated23 3 роки тому +1

      The long pipe sounds remind me of the arcade game Tempest

    • @GuyNamedSean
      @GuyNamedSean 3 роки тому +1

      That's exactly what I was thinking! It sounds so much like a heavily bitcrushed synth.

  • @loading2074
    @loading2074 3 роки тому +30

    Wet farts, squeaking dorhinges, and the screeching sound of an old chair being draged across a linoleum floor, all combined in perfect harmony. This is a miracle.

  • @Hyraethian
    @Hyraethian 3 роки тому +44

    This sounds like it really wanted to be an electronic instrument but was told it had to be a flute.

  • @sammyf4213
    @sammyf4213 3 роки тому +38

    Nicolas: Let's make the worst wind instrument in the world
    EDM producers: No, no, I think he's on to something...

  • @blaholtzen
    @blaholtzen 3 роки тому +158

    i hope there will be a proper trombone style version of this for maximum phasing

  • @wooden_lord
    @wooden_lord 3 роки тому +89

    These sounds remind me of some kind of crazy digital device from the old days. Even DSL modems did not give out such a phony)

    • @samuelbhend2521
      @samuelbhend2521 3 роки тому +1

      telefax machines...
      early printers.....
      floppy disc.....
      no internet.....
      some kids had a walkman, only two in my class a discman....
      fancy modern people back then had a "mobile phone" which simply meant that the telephone apparatus itself (here in switzerland at the time owned by the swiss gouvernement's post, telegraph and telephone departement PTT, telephone bills included the rent of the PTT-apparatus) was not mounted to the wall anymore, but sat on the table with 20m cord so you could take it to the kitchen with you. (Also telefax machines were PTT owned and had to be rented)
      god, i'm getting old....😱

  • @larusmarinus
    @larusmarinus 3 роки тому +164

    You made an instrument that sounds like Clown Core's vocals

    • @eelnoodles
      @eelnoodles 3 роки тому +8

      another CC fan in here i see

    • @joescott9417
      @joescott9417 3 роки тому +3

      @@eelnoodles make it three

    • @c-lao
      @c-lao 3 роки тому +1

      Thai would be four

    • @mattfleming2287
      @mattfleming2287 3 роки тому

      5 and hope they see this and use it on their next 'album'.

    • @yungpm
      @yungpm Рік тому

      Six

  • @monkehm
    @monkehm 3 роки тому +36

    It's like a flute got bit-crushed to hell and back.

  • @HipNerd
    @HipNerd 3 роки тому +68

    When my brother and I were kids, we would compete to see who could make the most annoying sounds. I didn't think anyone could beat my brother, but you could.

  • @pierrechausse3552
    @pierrechausse3552 3 роки тому +23

    Best relaxing/meditation instrument ever.
    I am waiting for a full album with only these flutes.

  • @lightdark00
    @lightdark00 3 роки тому +68

    You can make a fortune doing covers of popular songs with that! It'll be the next big thing, yes, even better than bad flute playing.

    • @NicolasBras
      @NicolasBras  3 роки тому +7

      I could...maybe I will!

    • @lightdark00
      @lightdark00 3 роки тому +3

      @SoftserveSodium Don't be pedantic. Read the literal definition of a flute.
      Flute (noun)
      (musical instruments) A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.

    • @hesspet
      @hesspet 3 роки тому +2

      @@lightdark00 In german: Flöte (flute) the word can bei used as short term for flute or recorder. Long term: Querflöte -> flute, Blockflöte-> recorder :-) :-) :-)

  • @ouroboser
    @ouroboser 3 роки тому +29

    As a composer I’m immediately thinking about how I would use this in compositions haha! I want a professional player of these disgusting instruments

  • @ER3xW4ha7
    @ER3xW4ha7 3 роки тому +32

    Wow I didn’t know there was an acoustic instrument that played dial-up modem sounds!!!

  • @metranisome
    @metranisome 3 роки тому +39

    These instruments are remarkably close to a set of instruments I made that I collectively call the Poorly Behaved Tubes. I have done many experiments with squeaker toy insert reeds (like those used in the groan tube). There is an amazing amount of variation and nuance to be found using small reeds like these. The combination of a very small reed and that the reed is uncontrolled (like that found in a wind cap instrument, and unlike the mouthpiece of clarinet and saxophone) makes the reeds extra prone to chaotic behavior. I find this kind of chaos to be different from the turbulence found on turbulence flutes like death whistles, as the behavior is from the erratic deformation of the reed itself, and not significantly from air moving in a turbulent way through the tube.
    I also think that long or very long tubes more easily have clear tones that can be distinguished. The only short tubes I have made with these reeds that make clear tones have the reeds controlled through contact with the lips, when the reed is capped it becomes very hard to hear clear pitch from it. Of my experiments, my slide instruments have been the most interesting, and in many ways the most fruitful for unique sound characteristics.

    • @NicolasBras
      @NicolasBras  3 роки тому +4

      This principle is fascinating! Send me if you have some sounds or videos, I'm curious!

    • @metranisome
      @metranisome 3 роки тому +2

      @@NicolasBras I have a video demoing many of them on my channel-
      ua-cam.com/video/5Dq7-eeIsms/v-deo.html

    • @NicolasBras
      @NicolasBras  3 роки тому +1

      Nice!

  • @kingmallow
    @kingmallow 3 роки тому +13

    I thought I only recently discovered you, but now I know you've been living in my dial up modem all along.

  • @nilsschenkel7149
    @nilsschenkel7149 3 роки тому +128

    You should make something bagpipe-like with four or so of these

    • @stefanmauhart6318
      @stefanmauhart6318 3 роки тому +21

      this is how u end up in jail

    • @defenestrated23
      @defenestrated23 3 роки тому +15

      Screaming chicken bagpipe

    • @Resomius
      @Resomius 3 роки тому +6

      This sounds terrible... I NEED IT!

    • @nrs91
      @nrs91 3 роки тому +3

      how would you tell the difference? lol

    • @ericlotze7724
      @ericlotze7724 2 роки тому +2

      Post Bagpipe Video THIS CAN BE DONE!

  • @blaholtzen
    @blaholtzen 3 роки тому +67

    if you want to emulate the full effect of the reed passing through the tube maybe you can magnetize it and pair it with a handle outside the tube?

  • @lukebortot7625
    @lukebortot7625 3 роки тому +10

    This thing sounds like a dial-modem playing a Tom Morello solo, its great.

  • @MarcWeertsMusic
    @MarcWeertsMusic 3 роки тому +86

    Some of the rhythmical things actually sound very interesting and potentially useful, I'd be curious how they'd sound pitched down an octave in a sampler… Native Instruments should hire you to do a sample library! (Edit: just saw the end of the video, that's going to be some interesting stuff!)

    • @NicolasBras
      @NicolasBras  3 роки тому +10

      I'm working on this kind of project, coming soon stay tuned!

  • @cujoedaman
    @cujoedaman 3 роки тому +7

    I'm sure every instrument that ever existed started with "this thing sounds terrible, let's make an instrument out of it" :D

  • @nicoguyot
    @nicoguyot 3 роки тому +29

    This is an instrument for transcendental meditation

    • @Resomius
      @Resomius 3 роки тому +1

      Ok, in what weard dimension do you want to transcend into with this

    • @nicoguyot
      @nicoguyot 3 роки тому +1

      @@Resomius Insectoïd consciousness

  • @yoshi_anubi
    @yoshi_anubi 3 роки тому +30

    that's how aphex twin creates his synths

  • @Ericisyourmuse
    @Ericisyourmuse 3 роки тому +20

    He want to make the worst sounding instrument…
    Drill, industrial, hardcore, brostep producer: Im gonna make a career thanks to this guy !!!

  • @hetsmiecht1029
    @hetsmiecht1029 3 роки тому +4

    3:28
    Me when I try to quietly open the door to the bathroom in the middle of the night:

  • @BirthquakeRecords
    @BirthquakeRecords 3 роки тому +8

    You are an absolute madman and I am living for it

  • @isaiahmccall6257
    @isaiahmccall6257 3 роки тому +3

    I never thought I'd see the day where there would be acoustic dubstep.

  • @JacobCarlson
    @JacobCarlson 3 роки тому +8

    The montage at 1:59 reminded me of my childhood trying to connect to our AOL internet 😂

  • @spar123321
    @spar123321 3 роки тому +3

    1:18 - The sound of my hard drive dying when accidentally running two AAA games on an ultra wide display.

  • @Purplehain
    @Purplehain 3 роки тому +5

    The growl tube is just perfect for modern electronic music though.
    I can clearly hear it mixed into some dubstep and/or d&b

  • @gabeevers8281
    @gabeevers8281 3 роки тому +15

    I've gotta get me a groan tube for this. It sounds like a dialup error

  • @kookwater456
    @kookwater456 3 роки тому +5

    Finally, a true dubstep instrument!

  • @panykfelidae9018
    @panykfelidae9018 3 роки тому +2

    It's like someone is beating the hell out of a dial up modem that hates everything

  • @fabioeliasreisritter8827
    @fabioeliasreisritter8827 3 роки тому +2

    Some of the sounds could be easily in some cyberpunk nightclub

  • @Raku777
    @Raku777 3 роки тому +10

    Thanks for sharing. I do like how you explore instruments and sound (even though this one was a little harsh sounding). This one reminds me of the circuit bending where people took old electronic toys and synths are rewired them to make strange sound boxes. It seems that you are doing the analogue equivalent of this. I did find that the circuit benders did eventually evolve some really homemade synths from their experiments and learned a lot from exploring the borderland between music and noise. I am sure you are learning some amazing things even from this harsh sound instrument (maybe an analogue distortion circuit that could be part of a chain of sound transformations that adds texture to a sine wave flute like sound, like the membranes attached to the Chinese flutes). I will look forward to see where all this goes!

  • @oriontikkit
    @oriontikkit Рік тому +1

    Grandma's neural processor after she falls down the stairs for the ninth time this week 1:53

  • @mattiviljanen8109
    @mattiviljanen8109 3 роки тому +4

    My C64 called, he wants his SID chip back!

  • @commanderxanderthesalamander
    @commanderxanderthesalamander 3 роки тому +3

    Wow, someone has finally figured out how the American emergency radio warning/alarm was created!

  • @PhillipRaymondGoodman
    @PhillipRaymondGoodman 3 роки тому +5

    I did this but with an old wind tube instead of the piping, I also tried attaching a kazzoo so it's before the read, you can kinda play both at the same time. It doesn't sound as good as this though. And yes this does sound good, it has a great electronic sound.

  • @Tapemaster21
    @Tapemaster21 3 роки тому +7

    4:30 woah, you've made an english to dial-up modem translator!

  • @qqg
    @qqg 3 роки тому +5

    2:01 if this triggers memories, you're old.

  • @badgmodmovies3775
    @badgmodmovies3775 3 роки тому +2

    sounds like you made a instrument that is loading a tape on a zx spectrum, I LOVE IT

  • @Chaddilaculus
    @Chaddilaculus Рік тому +1

    I actually love this so much!

  • @Fex.
    @Fex. 3 роки тому +2

    2:05 Congratulations! You have become a BBS modem!

  • @TheGiofont
    @TheGiofont 3 роки тому +2

    It reminds me of an old internet connection, horror movies, some defective electric device and a chicken sometimes :D. Definitely something unique!

  • @LesterBrunt
    @LesterBrunt 2 роки тому +3

    This is pure psychedelic. Slap a lot of reverb on it, 16th note gate and you have instant psychedelic.

  • @NickJonesMusicOFFICIAL
    @NickJonesMusicOFFICIAL 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you for this. It totally made my day. Genius.

  • @DarkadiaMaster
    @DarkadiaMaster 3 роки тому +2

    3:33 Squeaking door - the instrument.

  • @fordpurple7293
    @fordpurple7293 3 роки тому +3

    Now we know what "happened" to you as a kid so you came to make such great PVC Pipe instruments ^^

  • @Z_E_B_O
    @Z_E_B_O 3 роки тому +2

    sounds amazing

  • @eveningdreamermusic
    @eveningdreamermusic 3 роки тому +6

    play the sounds at 5:00 through an octaver pedal and you've got yourself some rage against the machine solos !

  • @Havazik
    @Havazik 3 роки тому +7

    It really does sound like DOS PC speaker music and sound effects.

  • @13TotalEntropy13
    @13TotalEntropy13 3 роки тому +2

    the really long one is like a trombone from hell, love it!!

  • @mistaecco
    @mistaecco 3 роки тому +2

    This is horrifying. Well done.

  • @readtruth6670
    @readtruth6670 2 роки тому +2

    It sounds exactly like there’s an Atari 2600 in that pipe.

  • @xuko6792
    @xuko6792 3 роки тому +2

    OMG, now you can play 8bit music live&unplugged!!!

  • @dasnogood2051
    @dasnogood2051 3 роки тому +2

    thats acidic af, find the right producer and they can make a rave banger out of this fr fr

  • @pux0rb
    @pux0rb 3 роки тому +1

    5:29 sounds like a cat's soul trapped in an old radio

  • @MAabmets
    @MAabmets 3 роки тому +2

    That experimentation around 2 min mark sounds like connecting to the internet in the 90s

  • @jam3112
    @jam3112 3 роки тому +3

    5:07 chicken whistle

  • @Krabadaque
    @Krabadaque Рік тому

    Haha! I was given a "Giggle Stick" from some children a long time ago. Used it for some sound effects for theatre.
    The director (a Dane) stubbornly called it a "Jiggle Stick", but liked it. Those children have their own children by now, but they knew I love strange sounds.

  • @ythaenagor
    @ythaenagor 3 роки тому +3

    Finally, a wind instrument perfect for black metal

  • @eighthourlunch
    @eighthourlunch 3 роки тому +3

    OMG. I'm pretty sure a violation of the Geneva conventions happened here.

    • @NicolasBras
      @NicolasBras  3 роки тому +1

      Am I in trouble?

    • @eighthourlunch
      @eighthourlunch 3 роки тому

      @@NicolasBras Ha! No, as long as you never play it in the car with me, you should be fine. :)

  • @bloognoo
    @bloognoo 3 роки тому +1

    Props for the near perfect impression of a modem handshake

  • @juanburnichon
    @juanburnichon 3 роки тому +2

    Some sounds are unironically amazing.

    • @NicolasBras
      @NicolasBras  3 роки тому +1

      I think they are actually interesting!

    • @juanburnichon
      @juanburnichon 3 роки тому

      @@NicolasBras Absolutely! Great content man. Greetings from Argentina!

  • @danielleohallisey4218
    @danielleohallisey4218 3 роки тому +1

    It’s close enough to a dial up modem that I kept expecting to hear someone tell me that I’ve got mail!

  • @fatmario8244
    @fatmario8244 3 роки тому +2

    I like how it turned into to jazz, chicken sounds, electronic screeches for a few split seconds here and there

  • @mikecollis1821
    @mikecollis1821 3 роки тому +3

    My god I pity your neighbours, and also tip my hat for your thought processes.

  • @benjaminmarks8765
    @benjaminmarks8765 3 роки тому +4

    1:16 Aztec death whistle

  • @juanpablofajardoramirez1008
    @juanpablofajardoramirez1008 3 роки тому +3

    5:40 those silent hill 1 vibes are true man, seriously hahaha

  • @LEMonsieurKill
    @LEMonsieurKill 3 роки тому +2

    massive weapon for Industrial Hardcore techno 🔥

  • @nrs91
    @nrs91 3 роки тому +1

    went from modem to techo to chipmunk lol
    now you need to make the worst trombone ever by feeding this with a mouthpiece lol

  • @seacoast6351
    @seacoast6351 3 роки тому +1

    Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

  • @Landeville
    @Landeville 3 роки тому +1

    My son is blowing into recorder way too hard as I type, and somehow I'm watching this. The amount of ear pain is escalating quickly.

  • @MrFiver1111
    @MrFiver1111 3 роки тому +2

    2:02 When loading a ZX spectrum game
    5:14 The game title screen music

  • @fordpurple7293
    @fordpurple7293 3 роки тому +1

    4:50 that mix of a dolphin and a chicken ist kind of great!

  • @madlyawww
    @madlyawww 3 роки тому +1

    2:10 When you start up your diesel truck on a cold day

  • @evilanno3394
    @evilanno3394 3 роки тому +3

    Have no experience with music or sound design but some of those sound would make cool robot chatter for a scifi film.

  • @RamDragon32
    @RamDragon32 3 роки тому +2

    Some of those sound experiments... I kept expecting the Welcome to AOL screen.

  • @wenduitz9970
    @wenduitz9970 3 роки тому +1

    This instrument would be fantastic for making a track for an old video game, but mostly the long “flute”! Either way, great vid!

  • @mattlivingston2192
    @mattlivingston2192 3 роки тому +1

    Congratulations, sir. That is a truly awful cacophony!
    Your creation has surpassed the oboe as "the ill wind that nobody blows good".

  • @Mia-vo2ss
    @Mia-vo2ss 3 роки тому +1

    Sounds like a kid throwing a fit in toys r us when they can’t get the expensive Lego kit they want

  • @kayezero703
    @kayezero703 3 роки тому +3

    bruh this looks like a lot of fun

  • @cameronbrown7796
    @cameronbrown7796 3 роки тому +1

    So this is how the 90's internet dialup sound was made...makes sense.

  • @AunSiro
    @AunSiro 3 роки тому +3

    This instrument is most excellent, it sounds like the Doom soundtrack played on a dot matrix printer possessed by a hateful demon

  • @tagatafaamatala3875
    @tagatafaamatala3875 3 роки тому +1

    My neighbours love when I play that video on my hifi system

  • @lethalpabby
    @lethalpabby 3 роки тому +3

    The second one you tried after you drilled the holes sounds good and it sounds like a game soundtrack that I would like. I want to know what the instrument that part sounds like is.

  • @WizardOfDocs
    @WizardOfDocs 3 роки тому +1

    so this is how they get the dialup noises in movies about the '90s internet

  • @aarondewindt
    @aarondewindt 3 роки тому +1

    My cat jumped in confusion at 1:18. I had earphones on.

  • @Isaac-lk8qe
    @Isaac-lk8qe 3 роки тому +1

    Dahm i think you just reinvented The Prodigy

  • @SludgeFuZZ
    @SludgeFuZZ 3 роки тому +1

    Imagine a duet between this and the Daxophone..

  • @joethompson11
    @joethompson11 3 роки тому +1

    What a sound! Loved the journey through it all!

  • @SiegeDestroyer
    @SiegeDestroyer 3 роки тому +1

    I came for the worst sound and all I got was flashbacks of the dial up tone...

  • @MrArray1967
    @MrArray1967 3 роки тому +3

    Hey. Wait this was the sound of the 80th, my ZX Spectrum 48+ when loading a Basic program or the modem of my Triumph Adler in the 90th.

  • @_Tima124
    @_Tima124 3 роки тому +1

    the joint pain instrument

  • @saabsultidanoi6418
    @saabsultidanoi6418 3 роки тому +2

    Sounds like somthing from the doom soundtrack

  • @madscientistme
    @madscientistme 3 роки тому +1

    My dial up is broken again but sometimes it becomes this cool beat