Granulation of Sampled Sound
Opening of the Wings of Nike using male and female phonemes (fixed samples), at normal pitch and transposed up or down an octave
Pacific, Movement 1 ("Ocean"): original waves cross-faded and stretched with low-pass filter
Pacific, Movement 1 ("Ocean"): long grain "breath" waves, then shortened and back
Pacific, Movement 2 ("Fog"): CPR whistle stretched and overlaid with other horns
Pacific, Movement 3 ("Harbour"): seagulls, original then stretched
Pacific, Movement 4 ("Dragon"): 3 rhythmic treatmentsA. drum rhythm imposed on materialB. loop with comb filter
C. granulated auto-increment loop with firecracker rhythm
Pacific, Movement 4 ("Dragon"): original percussion, then stretched
Dominion: transition from the Prairie section (stretched CPR whistle) to the BC section (Horseshoe Bay Ferry horns)
Basilica: source (bells of Notre Dame de Québec, Quebec City)
Basilica: opening of the piece (bells granulated, then stretched at 20:1 max, and transpositions added on 3rd note, 1 octave down, 12th up)
Basilica: loop of formant-like bell excerpts, stretched 15:1 and one octave down 10:1, to simulate monks singing (note: Schafer quotes Leonardo da Vinci "the sound of bells in whose strokes you may find every word you can imagine", Treatise on Painting, quoted in The Tuning of the World, p. 160)
Song of Songs: original reading by Thecla Schiphorst "Return, return", at normal speed, then stretched 10:1"Fair as the moon ... terrible" stretched and harmonizedSong of Songs: "I am the rose of Sharon", original, then stretched +33% and harmonized at 4:3, 4:2, 4:1
Song of Songs: "I sat down"; stretched diphthong "ow", stretched 60:1, 100:1, and harmonized 4:3, 4:2, 4:1, 4:6
Song of Songs: "The work of the hands ..." with variable stretching and harmonization 4:3, 4:2, 4:1
Song of Songs: "My beloved spoke", processed with multi-tap comb and high pass filter with stereo delay, then stretched
Song of Songs: Birds, normal speed, then stretched 5:1 --> 200:1 and harmonized 4:3, 4:2, 4:1
Song of Songs: Cicadas, normal speed, then stretched 5:1 --> 200:1 and harmonized 4:6, 4:8, 4:12
Song of Songs: Crickets, normal speed, then stretched 5:1 --> 200:1 and harmonized 4:3 4:6, 4:8
