how to ESKMO.

jeeves.207 · Post by **jeeves.207** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 1:53 pm

Good day, fellow audio engineers!
Recently, a pretty impressive performer has landed in my lap. ESKMO has some incredibly unique sounds and I'm not sure how he got some of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IddDWBpkzYg

In the song 'Cloudlight' he uses a noise that my drummer says resembles a deck of cards being shuffled. At 0:18 in the video, he starts in with the clicky clacky sound. I thought it was percussive, but then I picked out some changing tones, and I want to say that it's a tonal instrument like Operator, or tension.

Anybody got any ideas as to how this sound is made?

Jeshua · Post by **Jeshua** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 5:18 pm

I know he does field recordings and just released a library in collaboration with Amon Tobin. I definitely don't think it would be an FM synthesis machine like operator, but I could be wrong.

jeeves.207 · Post by **jeeves.207** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 5:29 pm

Jeshua wrote:I know he does field recordings and just released a library in collaboration with Amon Tobin. I definitely don't think it would be an FM synthesis machine like operator, but I could be wrong.

I don't know. It could be a low synth with heavy, manipulated oscillation. That was my guess.

jessemiller · Post by **jessemiller** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:09 am

He does a lot of field recording. So often there are found sounds layered and edited together. You may very well be hearing the sound of an actual deck of cards being shuffled.

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Thu Apr 21, 2011 6:48 am

it would be awesome if you figured out how to copy this guys sounds. some of your recent projects were OK, but were lacking a certain, how do you say? je ne sais quoi.

card shuffling... could take it to the next level

powersmine · Post by **powersmine** » Sun May 22, 2011 11:02 pm

I'm no expert..., But, to me, what I hear at :18 sounds more like the sound of a struck wire.

Sounds like a somewhat thick wire, but not thick enough to immediately deaden the sound.

You can hear it best with the ear directly on the wire when it is struck.

Like, if you got an old "Slinky" and held one end to your ear while taking a pencil to the part extending from your ear, you'd hear something similar.

But, again, I'm no expert.

dratha · Post by **dratha** » Mon May 23, 2011 9:56 am

I love eskmo and amon tobin, heres something worth looking at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbJwyTkC ... r_embedded

skip to like 2:05, sounds kinda similar

wooden doors creaking and squealing, i dunno how you'd process it but...

powersmine · Post by **powersmine** » Tue May 24, 2011 2:23 am

Dratha, Great find.

Indeed, sounds very similar.

Thanks for the Utube vid.

Gotta get me one of them Continuum fingerboards

esemdi · Post by **esemdi** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:47 am

I'd say it's a Sampler with an Arpeggiator. Free rate constantly shifting.

stax67 · Post by **stax67** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 11:24 am

I saw him live at glade festival last weekend, he was 'recording' and looping alot of sounds live. He had loads of random percussion instruments that he played down a mic and had FX on, he also did some cool stuff like ripping or screwing up bits of paper and opening coke cans. Really impressive to see.

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