Were any bees harmed in the making of The Other Me?

Nellie · February 25, 2009, 10:29:33 AM

I've been forced to listen to Milliontown a lot lately :roll: and it has been brought to my attention by No 1 son that the buzzing sound in The Other Me sounds just like a bee trapped in an envelope (or something). Is this true?

Pajter · February 25, 2009, 10:33:28 AM

Yeah that sound is awesome. I'd like to know how it was created...

I know you can achieve some sort of effect on a synth with double modulation or something. Where you route one LFO to another and that LFO to something else. I never really got the grasp of it.

Bokkie · February 25, 2009, 03:29:33 PM

I guess Jem had to build a long lasting relationship with a fly based on mutual respect and love for beer, wine and biscuits. Then he trained the fly to hover around a mic. :lol:

Catching a fly under a class is much easier.

What i like to know is how Jem created that stuttering electric digital sounds that he also used on the fly.

Jem · February 26, 2009, 08:48:07 AM

Tis wasps! Wasps woman!

As for the stuttering stuff, I chose wasps with stammers.

Pajter · February 26, 2009, 09:45:00 AM

You didn't really record a wasp now did you?

(please say you didn't :lol:)

rogerg · February 26, 2009, 01:25:11 PM

Quote from: "Pajter"You didn't really record a wasp now did you?

(please say you didn't :lol:)

fie! non-believer!!!

:twisted:

tomskerous · February 26, 2009, 01:56:32 PM

There was a guy called Dennis Smalley who made some great tape-based experimental music in the early 80s. Found out about him through a double-credit music production unit I took on my maths degree (go figure) and the lecturer knew him.

One of the pieces had this very effect in it, and DS was asked how he did it.

"I went to the biology lab and got some etherised flies. I glued the leg of one to a lolly stick with spirit gum and waited for it to wake up. I waved the stick around between two mics with headphones on to get the effect I wanted. At the end, quick dab of Isopropyl alcohol on the leg and away it flew.

But remember to do that final bit outdoors or you've got a fly stuck in your precious studio for days!"

EVP · February 26, 2009, 02:02:44 PM

Yeah then the next thing ya know they'll be buzzing around getting into everything
and wanting to play the drums and stuff. not in my studio!

rogerg · February 26, 2009, 02:06:30 PM

Quote from: "EVP"Yeah then the next thing ya know they'll be buzzing around getting into everything
and wanting to play the drums and stuff. not in my studio!

I don't know, they do have six limbs! might give Andy a run for his money!

Nellie · February 26, 2009, 02:51:17 PM

EVP, I find your bottom a bit disturbing! Sorry :?

Brom · February 27, 2009, 12:18:17 AM

Recording bees and wasps, that's very experimental and interesting. I think I'll investigate some more, so pardon me while I do some swatting.

SerFox · February 27, 2009, 10:58:25 AM

Jem you know well I figured out how you made that sound, can I tell them?

Bokkie · February 27, 2009, 03:56:55 PM

I think Jem offered the wasp a very big biscuit like this:
(a cool album btw)

And than he went to this website:
http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_ima ... 97&org=BIO

Bokkie · February 27, 2009, 04:02:50 PM

Yes Serfox, please tell us!

johninblack · February 27, 2009, 04:43:51 PM

Quote from: "Bokkie"And than he went to this website:
http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_ima ... 97&org=BIO

This might be heresy but I'm more interested in that article about wasps than how the sound came to be made.