One hundred years have passed since the Spellplague forever changed the magical and mysterious lands of Faerûn. Mighty empires fell and great cities toppled, leaving only monster-haunted ruins and survivors struggling to rebuild.
The city of Neverwinter, the Jewel of the North, seemed blessed by the gods. While the rest of the Sword Coast was devastated by the event, Neverwinter survived largely intact. But this was only a temporary reprieve from its inevitable doom. Nearly 75 years later, a volcanic eruption rained fire, ash and molten fury upon the city, annihilating everything in its wake.
Today, Neverwinter has restored much of its former glory. Lord Neverember of Waterdeep has taken the city under his protection and put forth a call to all adventurers and heroes of the Savage North to help rebuild Neverwinter in the hopes that one day he can lay claim to her throne and crown. But evil forces conspire in the dark places of the world, seeking to undermine all…
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Mixtape No. 30: WoW Coda
This is where the recording device happened to place a track number. Only a moment of silence then more ambience.
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Mixtape No. 29: The 36th Chamber of WoW
I got another 10 days of World of Warcraft promotional time, so I thought I’d do a field recording of life among these pandas. I did not accidentally delete the screenshots this time.
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Mixtape No. 25: The Seventh Layer of WoW
I got seven days of free World of Warcraft time for the pre-release of Mists of Pandaria. I decided to check out the state of the game. It wasn’t as exciting as I remember it. But, I made a field recording of my experience (points) to share.
When I uninstalled the bloated client, I did not think to save the screenshots. Ooops!
It should probably be noted that these sounds are recorded from me playing World of Warcraft, and so probably also remain the property of Blizzard. But it’s just for fun anyway, so why should anyone care about the legality? First thing I’ll do when I rule the world: kill all the lawyers. How do you even “own” a “sound,” man? Whoa.
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Mixtape No. 23: Overtone Singing
Overtone singing is a method of producing sound with the throat that utilizes harmonics. This allows the musician to produce two tones at once. The spectrum of sounds a skilled practitioner can produce are awe-inspiring and mind-boggling. Apparently anyone can learn but the knack escapes me so far.
The Tuva culture is responsible for a sizable fraction of the songs in this podcast. The Tuvans “are a Turkic ethnic group living in southern Siberia.” (Wikipedia) Other examples in this episode come from Buddhism and the so-called western world.
Tracklist
Various Artists
- Mongolian Overtone Singer
- “Deep Voice” Overtone Singing
- Ken Ueno: Why Sing Overtones?
- Vocal & Overtone Singing Improvisation
- Tuvan Throat Singing
- Rollin Rachele “Overtone Singing”
- Harmonic Bamboo for Shakuhachi and Overtone Singing
- Leise rieselt der Oberton – Polyphonic Overtone Singing – Miroslav Grosser
- Tibet with deep (overtone, throat) singing
- Tuvan Throat Singing
Runtime 40:58
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ONGELEGEN — Rain, Thunder and Airplanes Ambience (Binaural)
ONGELEGEN — Rain, Thunder and Airplanes Ambience (Binaural)
posted in Ogg Vorbis format in order to preserve the sample rate
MP3 tops out at a sample rate of 48000Hz. I’m a little disappointed.
Ogg’s downfall is poor hardware support — which always puzzled me since it is open source and would take literally a single workday to implement in popular hardware such as the one made by that fruit company. Even then, the likelihood of this one working on hardware is almost zero. My Sansa supports Ogg Vorbis, but not apparently at 96kHz.
The WAV version of this track is available from SoundCloud.
