Can't remember the artist now, but he placed contact microphones on telephone cables in the outback, and recorded many hours worth of cables expanding/contracting in the sun, then sped the sound files up to 5 minute "songs". Otherworldly.
I live in Alaska. It’s pretty wild when you can hear an earthquake coming. It’s like no other sound. It doesn’t sound like the waves you are using. It’s more like a very low frequency barely audible sine wave with some warble to it. Then it starts shaking. You can’t always hear it but since I moved to an area that is right up against the base of a mountain I can hear it more often. Maybe I’ll try to sound design it and upload it.
Yes, this video is about the sonification of seismograph data, rather than any actual audio recordings of an earthquake from close enough to hear it. The thumbnail doesn't make that too clear. It's still cool, but much easier to accomplish, and less impressive, than a real audio recording, especially if there had also been synced video to show what the ground was doing at the recording site. That's a big ask, though, because earthquakes that are big enough to hear are so unpredictable.
@@GizzyDillespee ya. I thought the video was great. Im just bringing up a different thought. You’d have to leave a recording going on for years possibly. It’s been over a year since we had one big enough to hear. I wish I would have thought about it after the last big one because we had several big shakes a day for 6 months after it.
@@Miya-Akuma I could see that. Like if you filter out all the high frequency of white noise and then cranked the resonance on a low frequency? I tend to do sound design in an additive way so I was thinking more like a bunch of low frequency sine waves beating the hell out of each other.
The irony is the processed earthquake data sounds so delicate and chill. Thinking of the mass energy released during an earthquake. Your channel is a creatives gift. I love your fusion of science and art!
In a similar fashion, you can also take observations from distance stars and turn them into instruments or just listen. NASA's Kepler has a public archive of 200,000 stars that were observed continuously for 4-years. One can go from seismology to asteroseismology!
Watching your videos reminds me of when I was working on tracks in high school. I'd grab the nearest items and start sampling random things from them, for instance, one of my best snares was made from shaking my thermos of coffee, and one of my best drums was the sample of me dropping my head to the table when I found out one of my tracks was deleted whilst recording another. I've even used party poppers and snappers to make quick and aggressive drum kits.
Hi David, your imagination generosity are a template that the rest of the world could learn a great deal from. As always...thank you for making my day, and giving me hope.
As an experienced Californian, i would respond, "A very low rumble, and the sound of everything in your house shaking." Although sometime you hear nothing; you just sense that things are off in some vague way, and then notice hanging lamps swinging in small circles.
Fun/Pedantic fact: the Richter scale hasn't been used to measure earthquakes in quite a while. It's generally called the moment scale now, which my civil engineer great uncle always liked to correct me on when he was talking about them.
@@skyblockreborn1379 Sorry for the lack of clarity; no, it's also calculated differently and more accurately reflects the energy released during an earthquake though it only commonly gets used for mid to larger ones.
This is the content I follow you for - you're an inspiration! I've always loved the idea of using non-audio data to make music, and I've dabbled in it a little myself. I'm currently recording 256 nights' worth of sleep monitor graphs so that I can make a wavetable of my own sleep patterns, for example. I LOVE this stuff :)
I'm intrigued as to why this doesn't have more views - non-linear approaches to making music are really interesting and great for inspiration. Linear being, playing a regular accepted instrument. Then you can combine the two and the non-linear thing becomes a feature, and if included correctly a hook too. Fascinating stuff David!
You are wonderfully gifted and even more inspirational! The joy you have for learning and sharing helps me capture that childhood wonder. Thanks a ton!
the creativity and novelty in what you think to sample and the diversity of sounds you get from them will never cease to amaze me. i genuinely get so inspired when watching your videos. cant wait to use these sample packs!
Yeah, I remember that. Shortly before 10:30 in the morning. The room started shaking like there was some really powerful machine out on the street, or even in the hallway somehow. Why would anyone bring a machine that powerful into the hallway? And I thought back to the earthquake from about a decade ago. The one in Virginia or someplace, that was recorded in Washington DC and was felt faintly in Philadelphia. This felt like that, but stronger. I wondered, was this another earthquake? I asked anyone else if they had felt it. And I went looking for earthquake data, and there it was. It's nice to have that shared experience with people. No one got hurt, and everyone can say, "Remember that thing that happened? Wasn't that wild?"
I live in Staten Island. I heard a low rumble both during the earthquake and the aftershock. You should slow down that hand clap sounding wave to real time.
Hmm, now I need to go find the earthquake data that we felt in Georgia a few years ago. It was so weird. It wasn't like a wobbly chair or desk. The entire house jolted back and forth about two times and it was done. I don't think I want to feel an actual strong earthquake. I love those sounds though. With enough manipulation and coaxing, anything can be made to sound melodic, I think. :)
I wonder if electroencephalograph data could be used in a similar manner and whether there'd be strong audible differences between a "normal" alert person vs a sleeping person vs someone having a seizure.
Another cool, but rarer, source of sounds is from gravitational wave events. The experiments do transform the data to audible "chirps" when they release results.
How did you adjust the time compression at 3:34? Id love to be able to pull from the databases (it seems the images are maybe more readily accessible than the mseed files) and work with a more low rumble like the preview at 2:19 or even closer to real time than that. As always your videos and sample packs are super inspiring and make me want to open up my DAW. This is a really cool project!
Hey David! Thanks for all the content and help. I'm just trying out one of your free sample packs. Are they all in windows media form? I'm just confused on how to get these samples to my 404? Thanks for all.
you'd be surprised how much of this is identical to my actual day job (including wondering why the hell so much iris data seems to be offline lmao...we're trying to help them fix it)
When you're exporting the files for found sound samples such as this, do you just use one export for the whole keyboard or do you export different EQ settings for the range of notes?
bout the same as your mom walkin around haha gotem Seriously though, cool video. I grew up in a place where there are basically never any earthquakes (Ohio) and now live in Japan, and it's really something else to feel it in real life (and you will if you live here for any significant amount of time). I love seeing this from an audio analysis perspective as well.
For a video on sound your levels are mighty low On the same volume as I can hear every other video clearly i can barely make out what you're saying. And I'm not even at the quakes yet. Which is a shame because I was quite interested. (Earthquakes just started few snaps with no tail I heard) The music was on a nice background semi background level
The music on the end was on a great level for a video. The speech throughout was very hard to follow without intense focus and if anything drove by outside or people talked in the street impossible.
Can't remember the artist now, but he placed contact microphones on telephone cables in the outback, and recorded many hours worth of cables expanding/contracting in the sun, then sped the sound files up to 5 minute "songs". Otherworldly.
Found it!
Alan Lamb. Check out "Beauty" (1986).
Its beautiful, reminds me of half life's OST
Would love to know who that is!
@@jayjones8570 They found him already :D
like skaters on thin "black ice" , that laser thing !!!
I live in Alaska. It’s pretty wild when you can hear an earthquake coming. It’s like no other sound. It doesn’t sound like the waves you are using. It’s more like a very low frequency barely audible sine wave with some warble to it. Then it starts shaking. You can’t always hear it but since I moved to an area that is right up against the base of a mountain I can hear it more often. Maybe I’ll try to sound design it and upload it.
When iv heard earthquakes in Australia, its sounded of wave of deep static passing by
Yes, this video is about the sonification of seismograph data, rather than any actual audio recordings of an earthquake from close enough to hear it. The thumbnail doesn't make that too clear. It's still cool, but much easier to accomplish, and less impressive, than a real audio recording, especially if there had also been synced video to show what the ground was doing at the recording site. That's a big ask, though, because earthquakes that are big enough to hear are so unpredictable.
@@GizzyDillespee ya. I thought the video was great. Im just bringing up a different thought. You’d have to leave a recording going on for years possibly. It’s been over a year since we had one big enough to hear. I wish I would have thought about it after the last big one because we had several big shakes a day for 6 months after it.
@@Miya-Akuma I could see that. Like if you filter out all the high frequency of white noise and then cranked the resonance on a low frequency? I tend to do sound design in an additive way so I was thinking more like a bunch of low frequency sine waves beating the hell out of each other.
I've done this will NASA's publicly available sounds too. Jupiter and Saturn's radio emissions are ghostly.
Only David Hilowitz would think of doing something like this.
The irony is the processed earthquake data sounds so delicate and chill. Thinking of the mass energy released during an earthquake. Your channel is a creatives gift. I love your fusion of science and art!
Not gonna lie, I was lowkey expecting a sick 808 kick
In a similar fashion, you can also take observations from distance stars and turn them into instruments or just listen. NASA's Kepler has a public archive of 200,000 stars that were observed continuously for 4-years. One can go from seismology to asteroseismology!
Incredible project. It's like you dig deep for music and it's there somewhere. It's like looking for gold.
Watching your videos reminds me of when I was working on tracks in high school. I'd grab the nearest items and start sampling random things from them, for instance, one of my best snares was made from shaking my thermos of coffee, and one of my best drums was the sample of me dropping my head to the table when I found out one of my tracks was deleted whilst recording another. I've even used party poppers and snappers to make quick and aggressive drum kits.
The Earthquake Drum Kit is absolutely fantastic. I have been looking for something that sounds like this for a while, many thanks.
Hi David, your imagination generosity are a template that the rest of the world could learn a great deal from. As always...thank you for making my day, and giving me hope.
As an experienced Californian, i would respond, "A very low rumble, and the sound of everything in your house shaking." Although sometime you hear nothing; you just sense that things are off in some vague way, and then notice hanging lamps swinging in small circles.
Fun/Pedantic fact: the Richter scale hasn't been used to measure earthquakes in quite a while. It's generally called the moment scale now, which my civil engineer great uncle always liked to correct me on when he was talking about them.
what's the difference? you say it's "called" the moment scale now... is it just a renaming?
@@skyblockreborn1379 Sorry for the lack of clarity; no, it's also calculated differently and more accurately reflects the energy released during an earthquake though it only commonly gets used for mid to larger ones.
@@iNerdier tysm!
"Is earthquake an instrument"
"No Patrick, earthquake is not an instrument"
This is the content I follow you for - you're an inspiration! I've always loved the idea of using non-audio data to make music, and I've dabbled in it a little myself. I'm currently recording 256 nights' worth of sleep monitor graphs so that I can make a wavetable of my own sleep patterns, for example. I LOVE this stuff :)
Looks like you made the literal embodiment of trailer sample libraries “earth shattering hits”!
I'm intrigued as to why this doesn't have more views - non-linear approaches to making music are really interesting and great for inspiration. Linear being, playing a regular accepted instrument. Then you can combine the two and the non-linear thing becomes a feature, and if included correctly a hook too. Fascinating stuff David!
as a guy who live in Chile, those are "nice" sounding earthquakes 😄
Very entertaining and creative!!
Music from earthquakes... Definitely something I was not expecting this morning. Good work Mr. Hilowitz !.
Following you down this creative rabbit hole was such a joy to experience. I feel like I've unlocked a new perspective on music. So cool!
2:18: - bad ? - thats efin awesome! Great project
6:36 That sounds cool!
Your creativity and skills never seize to amaze. Great video!
I love how you always digging deep into the subject. Bravo!
Yet again another video that blows my mind with how creative you are. Keep up the amazing work David.
You are wonderfully gifted and even more inspirational! The joy you have for learning and sharing helps me capture that childhood wonder. Thanks a ton!
you are so incredibly talented and hard-working my god its insane. your work always amazes me. thank you for the sample and the video
tried it earlier on and it sounds amazing, thank you for all you do!
You’re the best! Those drum sounds were kinda something I’ve been looking for.
you're truly an inspiration David! love your work.
the creativity and novelty in what you think to sample and the diversity of sounds you get from them will never cease to amaze me. i genuinely get so inspired when watching your videos. cant wait to use these sample packs!
Woah, simply amazing! What a great project and thank you for opening our eyes to yet another interesting way of obtaining sounds!
Yeah, I remember that. Shortly before 10:30 in the morning. The room started shaking like there was some really powerful machine out on the street, or even in the hallway somehow. Why would anyone bring a machine that powerful into the hallway? And I thought back to the earthquake from about a decade ago. The one in Virginia or someplace, that was recorded in Washington DC and was felt faintly in Philadelphia. This felt like that, but stronger. I wondered, was this another earthquake? I asked anyone else if they had felt it. And I went looking for earthquake data, and there it was.
It's nice to have that shared experience with people. No one got hurt, and everyone can say, "Remember that thing that happened? Wasn't that wild?"
Your best video yet! Amazing.
This is amazing, always a big inspiration when I see your videos
Now THAT is what I call a sample pack! Nicely done!
Absolutely majestic!
Oh this is very cool!! What a great use of resources to make something entirely unique.
Good Job, David! Congratulations 🙂
You‘re a legend David!
I love the stuff you come up with
this is crazy creative!
U are insane my dude happily subbed to ur channel
Awesome. Thanls a lot. Perfect match for the Box violin.
Awesome Video David, Thanks!
Thanks David!!!
This is absolutely brilliant ❤
That wasn't an earthquake... that was me the day after eating a tin of beans.
Love everything about this.
You need to do an episode on Lap Steel I think people would love to sample that.
Very neat. Many of these would do awesome as Reverbtails 🎉
Great timing, there was just a tiny earthquake where I'm at last night
Beautiful sounds, thanks so much.
The only thing, I would like to have a longer release. Minor issue.
Volcanic harmonics next! Thank you for creating and sharing your work!
What a cool idea! This is the new sound of an earthquake. 😮
I keep the USGS earthquake site in my shortcuts. Interesting site.
SO GOOD WTH,
NEVER THOUGHT EARTHQUAKES WERE SO GOOD FOR MUSIC
Dang, I never knew reaper could do such thing; thanks for the unexpected tutorial 😄
Very cool!
awesome video
Glad you enjoyed it
I live in Staten Island. I heard a low rumble both during the earthquake and the aftershock. You should slow down that hand clap sounding wave to real time.
Wow, what coding skills!
Hmm, now I need to go find the earthquake data that we felt in Georgia a few years ago. It was so weird. It wasn't like a wobbly chair or desk. The entire house jolted back and forth about two times and it was done. I don't think I want to feel an actual strong earthquake. I love those sounds though. With enough manipulation and coaxing, anything can be made to sound melodic, I think. :)
6:55 when you press the home button on your Wii Remote while playing a game
I wonder if electroencephalograph data could be used in a similar manner and whether there'd be strong audible differences between a "normal" alert person vs a sleeping person vs someone having a seizure.
Another cool, but rarer, source of sounds is from gravitational wave events. The experiments do transform the data to audible "chirps" when they release results.
the drums sound like those in bjork's "cocoon"
Pretty cool
Very cool
You're a wizard.
Kia Ora from New Zealand… We have a LOT of Seismic sample fodder for ya!
How did you adjust the time compression at 3:34? Id love to be able to pull from the databases (it seems the images are maybe more readily accessible than the mseed files) and work with a more low rumble like the preview at 2:19 or even closer to real time than that. As always your videos and sample packs are super inspiring and make me want to open up my DAW. This is a really cool project!
NASA publishes a lot of similar data from its radio telescopes which could make for great ambient music material
6:29 is it possible to turn those textures into presets on its own of reverb plugin? would be cool to have presets named after cities
Sounds like a Minecraft disc or theme, cool
Convolve those earthquakes into a reverb!
I said that when I’d barely just heard the first earthquake or two. Called it. Good stuff, David
The lyric "And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar, they're just another good vibration" is coming true.
Hey David! Thanks for all the content and help.
I'm just trying out one of your free sample packs.
Are they all in windows media form?
I'm just confused on how to get these samples to my 404?
Thanks for all.
wooow
you'd be surprised how much of this is identical to my actual day job (including wondering why the hell so much iris data seems to be offline lmao...we're trying to help them fix it)
the reverb reaper thing was really cool, how does one get the response you put into the plug-in ?
🎉🎉🎉
autechre would love the percussive parts
nice
When you're exporting the files for found sound samples such as this, do you just use one export for the whole keyboard or do you export different EQ settings for the range of notes?
I wonder what these earthquake readouts would sound like in Logic’s Space Designer.
Felt it in Vermont 😂
these sounds remind me of Spore.
My dumbass thought the intro was gonna turn into the Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends intro.
A new music format Earthwave?
Does and earthquake *really* make sound, or is it just the stuff around it?
Next Video: What does my ass sound like + FREE SAMPLE LIBRARY
bout the same as your mom walkin around haha gotem
Seriously though, cool video. I grew up in a place where there are basically never any earthquakes (Ohio) and now live in Japan, and it's really something else to feel it in real life (and you will if you live here for any significant amount of time). I love seeing this from an audio analysis perspective as well.
wait, no playback of the sound on 1:1 scale? :< Quite cool, tho! :3
I'm shook
.... wait
Is your music really death metal unless its drums are sampled from a 8.0 or greater city killer?
The audio on this is noticeably low.
Another name could have been "Down the Waveform Rabbit Hole" eh?
Everything is vibration. You could sonify your brainwaves.
you total nerd :-). this is very cool. kudos.
For a video on sound your levels are mighty low
On the same volume as I can hear every other video clearly i can barely make out what you're saying.
And I'm not even at the quakes yet.
Which is a shame because I was quite interested.
(Earthquakes just started few snaps with no tail I heard)
The music was on a nice background semi background level
The music on the end was on a great level for a video.
The speech throughout was very hard to follow without intense focus and if anything drove by outside or people talked in the street impossible.
I almost wonder if I turned the music at the end up too loud and then the rest of the video got lowered as a result. :/