Re: The bells and other Kate noises

[andrew_m_gough@ccm.ch.intel.com (Andy Gough)]

On Tue, 19 Dec 1995 19:00:13 -0600, John D. Walker wrote:
[snip]
>I think this might be sort of a KaTe trademark.

Depends on one's attitude.  One could say, "KaTe is so lazy!  She just
keeps recycling old sounds instead of finding new ones!"  Or, one
could say, "I find it really neat that KaTe keeps alluding to her
previous work by including some of the same sounds!"  The truth is
probably somewhere in the middle.

>  I was listening to TKI 
>today and heard several sounds that show up on later albums.  Some of 
>Kate's fav sounds would appear to be: whalesong, low "satanic monk" 
>chants, 

Don't forget train sounds (Hounds Of Love, Get Out of My House,
probably more).  She certainly does have some favorite instruments as
well.

>and of course the helicopters (the sounds at the end of Waking 
>the Witch, Experiment 4, and Pull out the Pin - I think it's the 
>Fairlight rather than a true sample, but it sure sounds cool).

The helicopter sounds for Pull out the Pin come from Pink Floyd's
_The_Wall_ album (from the popular cut, usually referred to as "The
Wall", but is really named something like "another brick in the wall
part III", which goes "We don't need no education . . .").  

Don't know if this was also used in the other cuts--I'm sure IED or
someone else can let us know.

>Sort of an audio version of the KT symbol, prehaps?

Or the secret messages.

>It might be worthwhile to go through the recordings and attempt to 
>identify and catalog these things, if it hasn't already been done.  I'm 
>sure a lot of them are the same sounds, just reused in different spots.  

Not done as a single organized narrative of that information, but the
subject is frequently mentioned within commentaries of the specific
discs.

Regards,
Andy

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