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Looking for music example with extreme high frequencies

Post by klangtone » Fri Jul 01, 2011 5:54 pm

Greetings,

I have a weird request.
For work purposes, I need to find a real world music example that has extreme high amplitude, high frequency content. The best I've found so far is a track off of The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka album that has some 14kHz energy at -20dBFS.

If you know of anything that you think might be a candidate, please let me know.

Thanks,

Roy
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Post by Brett Siler » Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:21 pm

Most Merzbow albums. Venereolgy, or Pulse Demon are two of my favorites.

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Post by ubertar » Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:38 pm

Sound Characters by Maryanne Amacher. Or anything else by her.

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Post by jhharvest » Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:50 pm

Merzbow, yeah.

In the Japanese department there's more, I'm sure. This is Sheena Ringo's "Kimi wo Aisu" from the double album "Utaite Myouri ~sono ichi~":
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Post by Snarl 12/8 » Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:37 pm

jhharvest wrote:Merzbow, yeah.

In the Japanese department there's more, I'm sure. This is Sheena Ringo's "Kimi wo Aisu" from the double album "Utaite Myouri ~sono ichi~":
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Doesn't that kill people's speakers?
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Post by chris harris » Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:34 am

Cock ESP

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Post by jhharvest » Sat Jul 02, 2011 10:23 am

Snarl 12/8 wrote:
jhharvest wrote:Merzbow, yeah.

In the Japanese department there's more, I'm sure. This is Sheena Ringo's "Kimi wo Aisu" from the double album "Utaite Myouri ~sono ichi~":
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Doesn't that kill people's speakers?
It reached #1 in the Japanese charts so that's a lot of broken speakers if it does. I think most consumer hifi filter out that extreme high anyway.

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Post by MoreSpaceEcho » Sun Jul 03, 2011 10:39 am

that freq graph is CRAZY. what does that sound like? i would think that near-20k peak would be really disconcerting to listen to.

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Post by wren » Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:10 am

Other people's suggestions are probably more useful for your purposes, but I've always used one of Ryoji Ikeda's pieces (usually one of the Headphonics pieces) when I want to test a speaker's high end.
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Post by klangtone » Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:21 pm

Thanks for your help, guys!

Roy
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Post by Brett Siler » Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:48 pm

There is also Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble album Dreams. Theres all sorts of high pitched sine waves weaving in and out of the songs on that album http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7238


Anyone notice how all the suggestions we gave are from Japan?

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Post by thethingwiththestuff » Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:49 pm

oh wow, i love Dreams and always use it to listen to new systems! this is kind of freaky...

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