A fun little piece that I whipped up on Koala Sampler using nothing but a few audio snippets from early 70s TV commercials (the very first thing you hear, in fact, is an absurdly stretched out sample of Joanne Worley laughing in a laundry detergent commercial). You would never know. The end result is a dive into ambiguous cosmic horror. Who (or what) is making the distress call? Who (or what) is encountering it? That’s up to the listener to fill in the blanks.
The dispassionate computer voice is wink to Alien and 2001, and all the other great scifi films in which cosmic terror is met with cold machine precision, offering absolutely no comfort to any accompanying humans (or the audience!).
This was my first stab at anything remotely narrative (some of my early Elektrodoom tracks had hidden narratives, but nothing overt).
‘Distress Call’ is now up to something like 200 plays now on SoundCloud, so I’ll probably do more of these since people seem to enjoy them.
BONUS QUIZ: Somewhere in there is a very brief sample from Blade Runner. Can you find it?
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