CAA—57 / Sounds from the pipe. Flanger history.
1693-2022
In the year 1693 Christiaan Huygens noticed interesting
sound phenomena near the fountain in the
Château de Chantilly garden. Fountain sounds changes
it's timbre with microtonal shifts being reflected from the
stairway and this effect also changes along observer position.
This effect is called Repetition Pitch or as we used to call
it more often today — Flanger. Now we only can imagine
how long Christiaan enjoyed this sound phenomena in that
beautiful place or it is just a handy legend to explain why
he started his math explorations about it.
Actually this effect is implicitly used by our minds to orient
and helps localize sound sources in space more precisely.
That is why these two recordings — "pseudo explorations"
of flanger with using flexible pipe and different objects
(touristic foam, birch chips, glass, metal bowl, bubble wrap
and zip-lock package).
Recordings done mostly without cut and post processing
because of the importance of pure phenomena sound and
enjoyment of it's opening as it was with the Dutch
physicist 329 years ago.
Mastering by Misha Gavrilov
Curated, lathe cut and text by S.Komarov
Cyland Media Art Lab.
cyland.org
released January 26, 2022