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TIPS
1. EYES: keep your eyes open. Take a sound walk and record interesting sound samples on a portable DAT, cassette recorder or MINI-disk recorder.
2. EARS: be alert to every sound as a possible sample victim.
Click and go > What's a sample? What's sampling?
While holding the lens-cap on your video-camera, record your walk in the common neighbourhood. At home, play the videotape and see the unsuspected sound results. Your next perception of your familiar world will never be the same.
3. MOVE: move the objects in the kitchen, on the floor, etc. Let the water tap drip in a pan, or in the kitchen sink. Record footsteps with the microphone (e.g. contact microphone) on a wooden floor.
4. PLACE: record in large, resonating places and see what happens. Walk through different places indoors and outdoors and record the sound-in-move, e.g. while clapping your hands, or while telling a story.
5. MOUTH: a synthesizer arranges sounds and changes timbres and characteristics: attack, sustain, decay and release. The oldest synthesizer isn't a machine at all, but it's your mouth. Experiment with a variety of mouth-sounds. Record different mouth-samples and mouth-grooves.
6. OLD INSTRUMENTS: explore old acoustic musical instruments. Blow IN them, pluck them, hit them or stamp on them - record them. Put your microphone IN the sound box of the broken guitar, etc.
6. STICKS: collect drum sticks of all sorts and hit your found sound objects softly. Experiment with "daily-life" sticks. On your own risk: tick on the boxes of all your sound-machines (synthesizers, hifi tools, drum boxes) and classical instruments, If these expensive instruments aren't yours, it's forbidden! You may try using your fingertips only.
7. EGGS: handle all sound objects - from cheap to expensive - very carefully: Don't hit them like crazy. Handle them all as fragile eggs to evoke the subtle timbre and resonance that you cherish.
8. SELECT: select the most unconventional and fascinating objects that sound very well. Dick up a beautiful shoe box or big file box to put everything in.
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