Day 034 / Contact Mic Chaos

I was joined by a group of friends, Jeff and Wendy and Matty and Diane, for this evenings creative thing.  It was a fun night.  I decided I was going to do something similar to my first contact mic post except this time I’d take it outside to the streets.  Feel free to press play on all of the four music players below to hear them all mix together.  This one is a little more chaotic then the previous one.

We met up at Jeff’s house and Wendy suggested that we record the In’n Out fast food speaker podium and we all loved it.  Unfortunately, we had to bring my laptop and audio interface with us in order to record which was bulky and inconvenient.  In another sad twist of fate, just as we got everything prepared to record, they sent out the employee to collect orders so we didn’t end up capturing much of the speaker voice sounds.

After that we stopped by the local fire department and recorded this giant bell they have displayed out front.  Wendy played it by brushing a slinky across the surface and Jeff played it with his fists.  It was a beautiful sounding bell to say the least.

Then, we went back to Jeff and Wendy’s place and recorded the fizzy sound of the carbonated water inside a diet coke just after opening.  Believe it or not it sounded more like drizzling water or a guy urinating then what we expected.

Finally, the best of the best, we recorded the sound of a slinky.  I taped both the contact mics on either side of the slinky and Jeff and I stretched the slinky taut between us.  Then we slowly released rung by rung with our thumbs and recorded the waves as they made their way back and forth along the slinky.  It sounds really cool and interesting especially with headphones.