{"id":1491,"date":"2010-06-14T21:33:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T04:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2010-06-14T21:33:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T04:33:22","slug":"mutant-starling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/mutant-starling\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutant Starling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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European Starling, hero mutterer and goer-on-forever.<\/p><\/div>\n

[Photo by <\/em><\/span>donjd2<\/em><\/span><\/a> (CC)]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The European Starling<\/a> is a common bird that yammers like a manic street preacher. They have a really varied voice, quite expressive for standard birdsong.<\/p>\n

I recorded one in my backyard and found that the frequency content really held up well under creative processing (unlike the raspy, high-mid-peaked calls of crows<\/a>). Today’s sample is a continuous utterance from a starling that’s been pitched down 800 cents and run through the GRM Tools<\/a> PitchAccum filter<\/a>, which I just adore for thickening sounds in unusual ways.<\/p>\n

For me, it’s evocative of an exotic or alien ecosystem, especially with those other weird R2-D2<\/a>-like tones in the background…but, again, the vast majority of those tones are being made by a single Starling.<\/p>\n

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\n[Sennheiser MKH 50 into Sound Devices 702 recorder]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Photo by donjd2 (CC)] The European Starling is a common bird that yammers like a manic street preacher. They have a really varied voice, quite expressive for standard birdsong. I recorded one in my backyard and found that the frequency content really held up well under creative processing (unlike the raspy, high-mid-peaked calls of crows). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,134,4],"tags":[13,127,128,9,242,10,321,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1537,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}