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LaDefense wrote: This is not right. The "elephant-sound" was used the first time in the Aor music in 1971 (you can hear it in the Aor excerpt 5). And JMJ's and Charlotte Rampling's first meeting was later in the Oxygene era. Somewhere in the net there was an information that JMJ saw her the first time at a dinner...

I have listened the AOR yesterday and you are right - it was used at AOR (excerpt 5). It has been re-freshed for Zoolook album only

Jakob BC wrote:

matt222 wrote:The album also contained other sounds than just human voices, perhaps I am wrong but I definately remember Jarre calling it a whale cry - might have been in a COTM mag.

Still that could be his easy way to point out the sound.

Yes, quite possibly so

Petr wrote:

LaDefense wrote: This is not right. The "elephant-sound" was used the first time in the Aor music in 1971 (you can hear it in the Aor excerpt 5). And JMJ's and Charlotte Rampling's first meeting was later in the Oxygene era. Somewhere in the net there was an information that JMJ saw her the first time at a dinner...

I have listened the AOR yesterday and you are right - it was used at AOR (excerpt 5). It has been re-freshed for Zoolook album only

As we're talking late 1960's here, I guess that rules out any form of digital effects or digital sample processing.

rfoshaug wrote:As we're talking late 1960's here, I guess that rules out any form of digital effects or digital sample processing.

People at the time couldn't guess that... Cause very few heard AOR anyway.

GeeJee wrote:Also, we can see Mme Durand 'sing' this sound during the La Defense concert. Obviously the metal structure in which she sings it does not slow the sound down, but give it its metallic edge. Slowing down can be done live, so this would declare how this sound came together. It's nothing that special.

Obviously, it was nothing but an artistic visual effect for the concert (you can call it sample... or playback, as you like)

Dv_ wrote:

GeeJee wrote:Also, we can see Mme Durand 'sing' this sound during the La Defense concert. Obviously the metal structure in which she sings it does not slow the sound down, but give it its metallic edge. Slowing down can be done live, so this would declare how this sound came together. It's nothing that special.

Obviously, it was nothing but an artistic visual effect for the concert (you can call it sample... or playback, as you like)

...or not. It had nothing to do with sampling, and it wasn't playback, as you could hear Christine's voice

AnDrOiD wrote:I've always heard the sound as being the sound of an elephant.

Me too. But I also liked the idea of Charlotte's voice being played in reverse.

Why dont someone take the audio, reverse it and play it back at normal speed?. Surely that would give a better idea to what it is.

Jakob BC wrote: Why do you mix Zoolookologie into this?

Pure sarcasme, please forgive me.

Jon wrote:Why dont someone take the audio, reverse it and play it back at normal speed?. Surely that would give a better idea to what it is.

Its'done !!

http://dl.free.fr/jhYNXOaLk

Sound 1 (reversed only)
I think we can say it's an human voice, a cry or a kind of scream.
A plenty of reverb, or pre-delay + reversed : so on start of Ethnicolor, we ear the reverb queue or pre-delay first before the sample.

Sound 2 (pitched up 3 semitones)
It looks like a child cry, not a baby, more a child. Without being pitched it's also looks like a child cry.

Sorry I can't open and listen to the sound from the file which is posted..

But a long time ago..I did read that sounds in Ethicolor I is sounds from the whales...here you can listen to some whales singing...

Elisabeth wrote:Sorry I can't open and listen to the sound from the file which is posted..

But a long time ago..I did read that sounds in Ethicolor I is sounds from the whales...here you can listen to some whales singing...

Whales can be heard in my new track as well.

/commercial end

Oh ............so sensual!

Listening to Zoolook and wonder why it failed commercially???? I mean it didnt chart at all compared to earlier or later albums it was a disaster. Cousteau and Chronologie followed this way later but come on Zoolook is something everyone agrees is great work.

Elisabeth wrote:Sorry I can't open and listen to the sound from the file which is posted..

But a long time ago..I did read that sounds in Ethicolor I is sounds from the whales...here you can listen to some whales singing...

It's "bizarre"....it works fine for me....

Anyone else has the problem ?