Link to Streaming Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR8hQ4i2G-A

Description
This is my submission for the Impressions Composing Jam: Special Holiday Jam - Personal Project “The Mountain King”

For this jam, I wanted to create something unsettling, dissonant, rhythmic, and formed solely of homemade sounds that compliment AM/FM radio recordings.


-STORY BEHIND THE SOUND-

“They say when Mount Ithaca stands and faces the Moon on the night of a Solstice, it casts no shadows. During the summer months, living clouds of red-winged blackbirds plummet mid-flight and litter its slopes with their corpses.

Most curious of all, townsfolk living near Mount Ithaca claim that during the Solstice, a peculiar AM radio band begins emitting otherworldly noises for a few minutes. As no recording of this phenomenon exists, I set out to capture it.”


-TOOLS USED-

HARDWARE:
Shure SM57 Microphone
General Electric 7-4636d AM/FM Radio Alarm Clock

VST SYNTHS:
Synth1 by Daichi Laboratory (Subtractive Synthesis)
FM8 by Native Instruments (FM Synthesis)
Prism [Reaktor instrument] by Native Instruments (Physical Modeling Synthesis)
TX16Wx by CWITEC (Sampler)

VST EFFECTS:
MCombMB by Melda (Comb Filter)
MRingModulatorMB by Melda (Ring Modulator)
Codec by Lese (Sample Degradation)
Room Reverb by ElephantDSP (Reverb)
RandARP by CodeFN42 (Arpeggiator)

SAMPLES USED:
Triangle from TR-808

DAW:
Reaper v6.77

ART:
By me