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Rig - Urban Rain

Author

JP Neufeld (Rig)

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Date Submitted

08/14/2007 | 12:19AM EDT

File Information

Miscellaneous Song | 7 MB | 5 min 5 sec

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Current Score

4.42 / 5.00

Score Rank: #2,944
Popularity Rank: #14,005

263 votes

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106 downloads

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Author Comments

This is a rainy electroacoustic soundscape using no watery samples at all, just random sounds from my apartment. I created this for my electroacoustic portfolio that I had to submit to a university I was applying for, and I got in!

The criteria was to basically showcase your sound-manipulation skillz, and making water out of spoons, chairs, and paper requires some of those skillz. Here's what I used:

Low rumble at the beginning - a paper bag with the lows enhanced
Car passing by - guitar string
Hard drops - metal spoon hitting a plate
Thunder - the same paper bag
Other drops - spoon hitting a glass, my doorchain rattling

All the sounds were recorded with my mp3 player around my apartment, then heavily processed in Fl Studio. :D

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Average Score: 9.7 / 10

Score: 10
ArekuSilverwing

"Love it."

date: April 29, 2008

It almost sounds like rain, very resourceful.
And I love the pattern, it's exactly like regular rainfall:
Drizzle -> Rain -> Shower -> Rain -> Drizzle -> Distant

Nice job!

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Score: 10
Macorum

"Perfect"

date: April 26, 2008

I happened to find this piece as it stormed outside. I find rain to be one of the most beautiful things in nature, and you captured it all in man-made materials. Very ironic and very beautiful.

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Score: 10
Eskimojo

"D:<"

date: April 16, 2008

Somebody sould have used this in a flash submission by now!!!

(submitted on my 20th yay:P)

April 17, 2008

Author's Response:

Happy birthday! haha

I guess nobody needs a rainstorm in their flashes...

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Score: 8
wyldfyre1

"very interesting"

date: April 15, 2008

the sound of bee bee's raining from the sky. its almost like i wanna duck cuz i don't wanna get hit in the head with one of them haha. its earrie but really really cool! and then the rain hits hard! its a relaxing sound for sure! Great work man!

Wyldfyre1

April 17, 2008

Author's Response:

Thanks! It was more fun to make than I thought :)

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Score: 7
AfroShine

"hmm"

date: March 2, 2008

doesn't sound urban enough. You need more car and truck sounds and maybe the sounds of a subway underneath you. Another thing would be maybe a mass of footsteps from pedestrians and the laughing or cursing of people because they were suddenly caught in a downpour lol. Also, the heavy drops needs to be fixed.

March 3, 2008

Author's Response:

Well, yeah. I only used sounds that were recorded in my apartment, though. It's not meant to be a TRUE representation of a downpour - it's more like an abstraction. :)

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