[GLOBAL: experimental electronic sound-identification piece. Adult female contralto, close-mic, dry, calm, low, clinically precise spoken voice. Each spoken sound-name MUST be immediately demonstrated by the corresponding isolated sound. The named sound occurs AFTER its label, clearly exposed in negative space. Do not substitute conventional drums for demonstrated sounds. Gradually combine previously demonstrated sounds as the piece develops.] [INTRO — near silence; enormous negative space; faint deep rubbery analog sub-bass pulse] [spoken, close, clinical] Water droplet. [ISOLATED SOUND: one microscopic liquid resonator ping; tiny bright attack, rounded watery resonance, fast natural decay] [3 seconds negative space] [spoken] Again. [ISOLATED SOUND: three differently pitched liquid droplets — plip... plink... bloop — irregular spacing] [SECTION 1 — FILTER PING] [spoken] Self-oscillating filter ping. [SOUND: resonant analog filter struck by a microscopic impulse; pure liquid boop with rapidly falling pitch envelope; wet, round, extremely clean] [spoken] Lower. [SOUND: deeper resonant filter ping — bloop — pitch bends downward into silence] [SECTION 2 — KARPLUS-STRONG] [spoken] Karplus-Strong pluck. [SOUND: one impossibly crisp physical-modeling pluck; ambiguous between water, glass bead, wet twig and synthetic string] [spoken] Shorter. [SOUND: tiny damped plink] [spoken] Again. [SOUND: irregular cluster of microscopic Karplus-Strong droplets; plink...tok...blip...] [SECTION 3 — FM DROPLETS] [deep rubbery bass pulse quietly returns] [spoken] FM droplet. [SOUND: glassy frequency-modulated liquid transient; bright microscopic attack blooming into strange metallic-water resonance] [spoken] More modulation. [SOUND: warped FM droplet, increasingly alien, biological and insectile — pliiNK] [spoken] There. [brief silence] That one. [repeat SAME warped FM droplet alone] [SECTION 4 — BUBBLE SYNTHESIS] [spoken] Bubble synthesis. [SOUND: isolated synthetic bubble — glup] [spoken] Smaller. [SOUND: tiny high bubble — pip] [spoken] Larger. [SOUND: deep rounded bubble — BLOOP] [spoken] A colony. [SOUND: irregular cloud of differently sized synthetic bubbles; organic, wet, strange, spatially scattered; never rhythmic] [SECTION 5 — WET BIOMORPHIC CLICKS] [spoken] Biomorphic micropercussion. [SOUND: intimate wet clicks, microscopic suction noises, tiny organic ticks, processed mouth-like and hydrophone-like transients; ambiguous living matter] [spoken] Not a drum. [SOUND: click...ssk...blp...tok...] [spoken] Something alive. [SOUND: close three-dimensional cluster of wet fungal clicks moving through stereo space] [SECTION 6 — GRANULAR] [spoken] Granular micropercussion. [SOUND: microscopic grains scatter irregularly — tik...ssk...blp...krr...tik — highly detailed, unpredictable human microtiming] [spoken] Smaller. [SOUND: grains fragment into increasingly microscopic particles] [spoken] Smaller. [SOUND: almost subliminal granular dust, tiny tactile transients surrounding the listener] [SECTION 7 — COMB FILTER] [spoken] Comb-filter droplet. [SOUND: dry click enters extremely short resonant feedback; hybrid of water drop, rubber band and tiny metallic object — bwoink] [spoken] Again. [SOUND: lower elastic comb-filter droplet — bwup] [spoken] Stretch it. [SOUND: resonant elastic decay lengthens and warps downward] [SECTION 8 — SPECTRAL RESONATOR] [spoken] Spectral resonator. [SOUND: single microscopic impulse excites a bank of tuned resonances; ambiguous glass-water-metal-wood timbre; shimmering three-dimensional decay] [spoken] What is it? [SOUND: second spectral strike, darker and stranger] Glass? [brief spectral ping] Water? [liquid resonator ping] Metal? [inharmonic resonant ping] [long pause] None of them. [SOUND: hybrid resonator combining all three qualities] [BUILD — RUBBERY BASS BECOMES DEEPER; still minimal, hypnotic, imperfect analog microtiming] [spoken] Now put them together. [Each element enters separately with space between additions] Water droplet. [liquid ping joins groove] Filter ping. [falling resonant bloop joins] FM droplet. [glassy alien transient joins] Bubbles. [irregular bubble cluster joins] Fungal clicks. [wet biomorphic micropercussion joins] Granular dust. [microscopic scattered grains join] Comb filter. [elastic bwoink joins] Resonator. [spectral ping joins] [INSTRUMENTAL — all demonstrated sounds form a hypnotic asymmetric organic-electronic groove around deep dirty rubbery synth bass; sparse minimal pulse; drunken human microtiming; sounds remain individually identifiable; extreme negative space; tactile headphone-scale detail] [spoken, almost inside listener's ear] Listen to the space between them. [everything abruptly stops] [complete silence] [one isolated water droplet] [long pause] [spoken] That. [repeat droplet] That's the one.
