Philip Goddard: Nature-Symphony 55 (Ancient harmonies - Laments of another Age)

Nature-Symphony 55 (Ancient harmonies - Laments of another Age) - As the title suggests, the melancholy or 'laments' you hear here are really something universal, being viewed seemingly back through historical times, and indeed not necessarily in our own planetary system.
The distinctive effect with these particular two metal chimes, with the larger apparently singing in bare fourths because the pitch reductions have made the harmonic at the fourth above the nominal pitch to be heard as if it were the latter, and thus what was the nominal pitch is now heard as an undertone. This gave a rather Medieval character to the sound, complete with the seemingly universal sort of melancholy that one often hears in Medieval secular music.
This work is based on a recording of a metal chimes duo (3 layers), a bamboo chime (one layer), and brief clips of a Dartmoor springtime evening bird chorus (blackbird predominant) (2 layers).
I made the original metal chimes recording on 14 November 2012 (it's not online, so no link to it here), on isolated tree beside Hunter's Path near Sharp Tor, Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK, the bamboo chime on 13 December 2023 on Piddledown, just above the Hunter's Path, and the birds recording on the western flank of Bellever Tor, near the forestry perimeter on that side, near Postbridge, Dartmoor, Devon, UK.
For full details of the work, please see its Freesound page, freesound.org/people/Philip_G... .
Advisory
To get the best out of this, with its mass of detail, listen with high-grade headphones.
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My Nature-Symphonies are, at least in my experience, a new type of music composition, whose nature and origin has interesting parallels with some of the most inspiring works of Iannis Xenakis through effectively being stochastic (probability-generated) music, and his tendency to create electroacoustic works in which natural sounds and real live instruments are used as a starting-point for transformation in meaningful ways.
Note the hyphenation of 'nature-symphony', because it's important. These are NOT any old type of symphony that is 'about' nature, but are a new type of symphony-type music that is originated and played by 'Mother Nature'. My role as composer, therefore, is as a sufficiently aware and 'deeply connected' enabler, facilitator, and recogniser of what choices have truly 'clicked' and mean something, so that I'm motivated to gather together those inspirational gems and to present them in a meaningful way.
For fuller notes about this type of music work, and the transformations used, see my relevant playlist ( • Philip Goddard: Nature... ).
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Images used
Location photos are not used this time. The images used are all AI-generated ones from Bing Image Creator, and most were outpainted to widen them to the requisite 16:9 aspect ratio. I also added an artist's canvas surface texture.
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The composition, video and original recording are the Composer's COPYRIGHT, licensed under provisions of *Creative Commons - Attribution*.
The audio is CD quality (16-bit, 44100Hz).