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Mr Sakitumi - Majestic mammalia (humpback whale)

from Polar Sounds by Cities and Memory

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I pretty much used the Humpback whale sound in its' entirety, employing a bit of Izotope to remove some of the extra ambient noise.
Then warped in Ableton to create a loop out of it, adding some extra delay and reverb.

I kept all the extra clicks etc as I didn't want to take too much away from the original sound.

The field recording has a fragile, beautiful mood to it, which is how I start and end my composition. This was the source for my inspiration.
The middle section has a feeling of movement, a journey, inspired by their yearly migrations.

(If you had to visualise my composition, it starts where they feed in the polar waters, then start their huge migration to tropical waters, finally arriving at their destination to breed and give birth.)

To add to the immense, majestic size and feel of them, I also used some tubas and pitched
the original recording an octave down.

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from Polar Sounds, released February 6, 2023

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Cities and Memory is one of the world’s biggest sound projects, a global, collaborative sound art and field recording programme with the aim of remixing the world, one sound at a time. It covers more than 100 countries and territories with 5,000+ sounds and more than 1,000 contributing artists.
Thousands of field recordings, recomposed and reimagined by artists around the world. ... more

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