How To Sound Design Ecosystems | BIOTA

Biota is a completely synthesized, procedural / generative alien soundscape that I sound designed in Ableton Live. In this video I'll break down how I created various geophysical and wildlife sounds generatively, and discuss other factors that go into creating a soundscape.

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - What is Biota?
1:57 - Soundscape Ecology
3:44 - Analyzation
6:08 - Probability & MIDI
10:59 - Modulators
13:39 - Designing Geophony
17:49 - Designing Biophony
25:57 - Acoustics
30:08 - Epilogue

SONGS USED
Ravel - Une Barque sur L'Ocean
Ravel - Toccata
Debussy - Pagodes
Ravel - À la manière de Borodine
Ravel - La Vallée des Cloches
Liszt - Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude
Ravel - Ondine
Amfivolía - Esse Solum
Amfivolía - Signa Stasis
Ravel - Jeux d'Eau
Debussy - Clair de Lune

RESOURCES/REFS
Open AIR Library: https://www.openair.hosted.york.ac.uk/
What is modulation? https://blog.faderpro.com/music-produ...
Kilohearts Modulation: https://kilohearts.com/docs/modulation
Sound Propagation Level Calculator: https://noisetools.net/barriercalculator
ml.Distance: https://maxforlive.com/library/device...

MORE REFERENCES
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
https://jea.jams.pub/article/2/1/48
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_...
https://pressbooks.pub/sound/chapter/...
https://cosinesound.com.au/blog/2016/...
https://ask.audio/articles/what-is-co...

CREDITS
Thanks to @Smam for illustrating some of the creatures: https://smamsart.carrd.co/
& special thanks to friends: stasys, popbot & lukasipo for reviewing this video before release

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