Low Poly and Sounds
The wind sounds heard in the low-poly example were created in a Max MSP patch, using a series of noise~ objects going through resonant bandpass filters. Over time, the cutoff frequency of each noise oscillator’s filter would gradually shift, along with the resonance, and the volume. The stereo split between left and right for each would also shift over time. I let the patch run and recorded around two minutes of it, then picked a section that I liked and used that in the example.
The soundscape in the background was made using a combination of a Serum patch and a free box violin VST for kontakt. The Serum patch arpeggiated maj7 chords, while the box violin sustained the notes. Both were fed into Michael Norris’ spectral averaging plugin, with a little reverb added as well.
For the ascending sound that indicates that the plant has grown, I again used a Kontakt instrument – this time a music box. I filtered out some of the highs, added some tape warble using SketchCassette and then some reverb.
