Chickens! Oh Yeah… {+ recording}
Last week I was on a shoot in a South African township, and there was a chicken coop . It sounded pretty awesome, so I recorded the ambience of it. The recording has unfortunately got traffic sounds, and I had to edit quite a bit around people talking. There is also the sound of the farmer whistling, but I left that in as it was for most of the recording and I kind of like it. I find it amazing how much more horrible this feels when hearing it versus looking at a picture.
Chicken Coop by SoundPlusDesign
The photo below is blurry, but if you look carefully, you’ll see that there is a pile of dead chickens. While recording, I didn’t notice and stepped on them. A mix of crunch, mush, fluff and all round yuk! The smell was vile! Needless to say that it is awful and sad to keep animals locked up like this.
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It’s kind of horrible. Nobody sounds too “content” in there, not even the mad whistler. But the whole thing leads to a horrible crescendo of sorts. Almost orchestral. Nice work (I think)
Wow, Andrew. Chilling and disturbing. Kudos for showing and sonifying the reality of such places. As a recording, it’s equally fascinating and deeply unnerving. Good work, man.
Thanks guys! Yeah, it’s pretty horrifying…
Wow that sounds amazing, it sounds like an eerie wind ambience. The chicken vocals sound like howling wind & the cages rattling sound like things being blown around in gusts.
very eerie… good job on capturing the feeling so accurately!