No Place To Hide From A Storm ( — David Whyatt Composer

No Place To Hide From A Storm (2022)

This is a developmental work, based on a single field recording of a metal top spinning on a resonant glass display table.
The original recording was put into the granular synthesizer ‘Ribs’. Sounds were created by manipulating ‘playrate’ (both speed and direction) and ‘wobble’ (amplitude and speed) of selected grains. These sounds were recorded into a number of tracks. Eleven samples were then created and placed into the Reaper sampler ‘ReaSamplOmatic5000’, along with the original recording. This resulted in 12 sounds that could be played through a midi keyboard. The envelopes (attack, decay, sustain, and release) were adjusted in the sampler. Each sound was then played and recorded, with appropriate volume and stereo-panning automation. In this manner, the original material is transformed, reworked, and presented in new contexts.