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Drop Science by Matthew Dear + The Sounds Of GE

2 durable postsStarted 2014-08-26Latest 2014-08-27
#147420Post 1 of 2

[video=youtube;cCUX4dDjhBQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCUX4dDjhBQ[/video]

DJ [url="http://www.mercuryserver.com/forums/djdb.php?id=12"]Matthew Dear[/url] teamed up with General Electric acoustics engineer Andrew Gorton to sample the tones created by the churn of "thousands" of different GE machines, from turbines to medical equipment. The sounds were then chopped up and reassembled into "Drop Science," a frantic, meticulous music experiment.

[url="http://www.mercuryserver.com/forums/djdb.php?id=12"]Matthew Dear[/url]'s career in weirdo music has taken him in a of directions,  but this new collaboration (read: promotional spot) with General  Electric is pretty remarkable, even if only as an illustration of his  composition and production skills. It's always compelling to hear music  that's assembled from [URL="http://gizmodo.com/an-ingenious-composer-made-this-awesome-music-using-onl-1502241637"]sounds collected in the real world[/URL],  but beyond the usual gimmick, "Drop Science" is impressive for the  scale of the project. There are just so many different sounds that  collecting them alone is an accomplishment. What might make "Drop  Science" brilliant, however, is that the massive collection is so deftly  dovetailed into a beautiful package. 

[SOUNDCLOUD]https://soundcloud.com/generalelectric/drop-science[/SOUNDCLOUD]

Taken from [URL="http://gizmodo.com/dj-matthew-dear-sampled-thousands-of-ge-machines-to-mak-1626888036"]Gizmodo[/URL]

Pretty cool stuff.

#1724199Post 2 of 2

Re: Drop Science by Matthew Dear + The Sounds Of GE

Cool! He made an interesting sounding track with it all too, surprisingly.

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