Tag: Nina Perman

02: Walking In Water

Listen out for these sounds in Walking In Water:

A backwards guitar

… for some variation I’ve included a stem of backwards electric guitar that never quite made the Fugitive Light and Themes of Consolation cut.

Andrew Wasylyk
A studio door being unlocked

It is ‘opening my studio door’ after I haven’t been able to be there for two months.

Roel Knappstein
Frogs in a pond in France

One is of a spring day in France in early June. Nathalie and I went for a walk and had a rest beside a pond with frogs.

Roel Knappstein with Nathalie Brans
Midnight the cat playing piano

Fave is midnight the cat, our wee guy who we recently lost to a car during covid:(
He was quite the pianist. We’d love it if that was used somehow! That makes us so happy every time we watch it.

Sandy Carson and Karen Skloss
Some chimes

Here’s a wee thing I made today in my head bubble. Hope it suits, can’t remember if you needed a certain length.
That was fun! So nice to have a play and make something with no parameters, must do that more often, I’d probably get quite a lot done that way.

Emily Scott
The white noise of the North Atlantic Ocean

here we go, two original recordings of noise (at day and at night) in the middle of the Norwegian Sea / North Atlantic 🙂
It was one the happiest moments and places I have been; I would sit there for hours and tune in—in a way.
Hope you like them and they provide fun for VC, chopping up, filters, or just leaving them as they are.

Jens Ewald
Uma the kitten purring and squeaking

Here are a bunch of Uma sounds for you. Some great purring and chirping, (my fav is on Uma 2.wav 1:04 – sounds like an Ewok).

Bobby Perman (and Becki Crossley)
Woodpigeons in Balgay Cemetery, Dundee

I caught some wood pigeons in the spring blossoms of Balgay Cemetary overlooking Invergowrie Bay.

Andrew Wasylyk

Track named by Nina Perman. Written and produced by Tommy Perman.

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Email your happy message to: happy@positiveinteractions.space – you will then receive an auto-respond email with a link to download. If it doesn’t arrive please check your junk / spam folder. I will try to respond to your happy messages personally if I can. Thank you!

10: Woosy Cudda

Listen out for these sounds in Woosy Cudda:

A guitar through a synth effects pedal

I hope your Wednesday has been going well.

I have just been working on some music for your project.

Firstly a slightly boring computer related story

A few weeks my 2014 MacBook Pro stopped working / I took it over to Apple and they helped the poor old thing out.
They installed a new operating system but with no garage band which I normally use for music.

I think if I had installed a new version it would have melted it.

I was going to send over some music I had made in the summertime.

Anyway today I was feeling the vibes of some kind and decided to make some improvised music.

So this afternoon recording on my iPad using Voice Memo / I made 4 pieces of music/sound for you.

These pieces were made with:

Acoustic Guitar
Microphone
Casio SK-1 Keyboard
Thunder Tube
Toy Saxophone
Loop Station
Synthesizer Bass Pedal

Recorded live in downtown Dunfermline on Wednesday afternoon.

I hope you can access the sound files / and that you can use them in someway for the project?

Marcus Oakley

A SoundForest iPad beat

I love the way my 5-year-old daughter Nina uses an iPad app called SoundForest to make beats. I sampled one of her beats as part of the drums and sub bass for this track

Tommy Perman

Bo the dog hoots sneezes and sniffs

Recordings of Bo the dog from Susie Brown

Fish wire strung along a pier resonating in the wind

Also, this is a set of recordings I made in the Pacific Northwest a few years ago that I love – it’s an accidental aeolian harp that was made out of some fishing line that was strung up on a dock. It was super windy and it was making a completely amazing noise! I was so excited by it, and I still love listening to it. 

Yann Seznec (with Kristina Seznec)

Hamacide’s happy guitar

It seemed like a simple request, but the more I thought about it, the harder it became to think of a sound that made me feel happy.

So I took the complete opposite route of digging inside and did a finder search of my Hard Drive.  I typed in “Happy” and an old, unfinished session came up with the word “happy” in the title.

I listened to it and it made me want to finish it, AND it made me happy.  Here is a portion of the guitar track from it.  I’m starting to remember how I started to write the song, and all the stuff I was doing at the time, and it makes me happy.

Yusuke Hama (Hamacide)

Prince the dog

My dog doing his howl chat that he does to me when he wants his dinner.

Kev Sim

Synth sounds from Chris Labrooy

I don’t really try to make music any more even though I do play about from time to time to escape from all of the visual stuff. Happiness isn’t necessarily in the sound but in the process of pressing keys and pushing buttons.

Chris Labrooy

Winnie and Chester guinea pigs squeaking and snuffling

It’s the guinea pigs, Winnie and Chester. Having a snuffle around and a nibble.

Bartholomew Owl

Track named by Nina Perman. Written by Tommy Perman, Chris Labrooy, Marcus Oakley and Yusuke Hama. Produced by Tommy Perman.

Get the album

Email your happy message to: happy@positiveinteractions.space – you will then receive an auto-respond email with a link to download. If it doesn’t arrive please check your junk / spam folder. I will try to respond to your happy messages personally if I can. Thank you!