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In "Manipulated Sons 0002", you are immersed in an audio landscape where the natural and the artificial intersect. The piece begins with the soothing, rhythmic chirping of cicadas, a familiar sound of nature that immediately connects you with an outdoor, possibly summer, environment. The cicadas' song is consistent, a constant thread running through the soundscape. Soon, however, the purity of this natural audio is interrupted by a layer of granular synthesis. This technique, which breaks sounds down into tiny grains and then reassembles them, introduces a different, more manipulated noise. It's a contrast to the organic cicada sounds, introducing an element of the unexpected and the technological. As the composition progresses, this granulated noise grows in complexity and intensity. It's as if we're hearing the natural world refracted through a digital lens, the cicadas' song now processed and manipulated. In the midst of this, a new element is introduced: the sound of wind.
