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Post by syd gilmour on Mar 5, 2017 4:53:40 GMT
Pink Floyd was famous fore pioneering sound effects in their music. Syd got started with using different clicks and mouth sounds on the Piper album, but their sounds are most prominent in the seventies on songs like Speak To Me, Money, Have A Cigar, Wish You Were Here, and pretty much all of the wall. How great was Pink Floyds influence on the use of sound effects, and what are your favorite examples?
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Post by The Lunatic on Mar 8, 2017 13:37:40 GMT
Pink Floyd was famous fore pioneering sound effects in their music. Syd got started with using different clicks and mouth sounds on the Piper album, but their sounds are most prominent in the seventies on songs like Speak To Me, Money, Have A Cigar, Wish You Were Here, and pretty much all of the wall. How great was Pink Floyds influence on the use of sound effects, and what are your favorite examples? I wouldn't say they pioneered using sound effects in music. But they certainly brought it to the spotlight, so to speak, and made it less avante-garde and more a seamless part of the music. I see the end of 'Bike' as a direct prerequisite to the cacaphony of clocks on 'Time'. And it wasn't just straight-out sound effects like the cash registers and clocks -- sometimes they would do something cool on a guitar or other 'normal' instrument that would be meant as a more abstract kind of representative sound. A good example, and one of my favourites, is the beginning 'PING!' and middle-section Gullmours* of 'Echoes'. You also can't forget the windy noise created by rhythmically rubbing a bottleneck slide over the strings of a guitar or bass, which they used a lot during the early post-Syd days -- notably: 'Julia Dream', 'The Narrow Way', 'A Saucerful Of Secrets' (live version definitely, I can't remember if the record has it), and 'Echoes' again. I also kind of like some of the unlistenable stuff of 'Atom Heart Mother Suite', particularly this one bit which I like to call 'dropping a piano down a flight of stairs underwater'. You'd be surprised how much you don't need synthesisers to make weird noises. Pink Floyd managed it for about four years of their most avante-garde work.  *My oh-so-punny term for all that backwards wah pedal nonsense. It actually sounds more like coyotes to me, but people call it seagulls and you can make a pun out of seagulls and Gilmours.  |
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Post by syd gilmour on Mar 8, 2017 15:29:16 GMT
They didn't invent the use of sound effects, but they definetly innovated and pioneered how they are used.
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Post by TheVelvetBride on May 18, 2017 1:04:52 GMT
They way overuse the bird chirping sound effect. To the point of real annoyance.  |
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Post by syd gilmour on May 20, 2017 2:57:50 GMT
As well as the wind blowing. But it works on the Wish You Were Here album.
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