Ch-Ch-Chain

My friend Mahlen Morris, who proposed this past week’s Disquiet Junto project and who develops some very cool virtual synthesizer modules, recently came to recognize that when his phone records video in slow-motion, the resulting sound is, naturally, also slowed down. Here’s a short clip of a metal chain clanking, to provide an example of the effect. When recorded this slowly, the sound of the clank has a depth and detail that is unlike the almost binary on/off thunk of it in real (i.e., real-time) life. And in addition, there is a haunting background drone, perhaps just artifacts of the chain, or a passing plane, or something else entirely. No matter, it’s a splendid effect.