This is from one of my sound design sessions, it's called "The Burning Piano".
I sampled sounds and noises while the piano was burning.
Since I only had one take I recorded as much material as possible. Initially I was pointing the gas flame lighter directly at the strings and I was playing single notes, but eventually the fire started to burn the hammers and other parts of the piano and at that point the strings were exploding because of the temperature. Later during the day I moved the piano and recorded additional sounds with the rests of the burned strings. I also used a hammer to pull the heated strings.

I'm not a professional videomaker, my focus is on sounds and music. I'm actually creating new playable sounds out of objects and customized instruments with innovative recording techniques. I put together this video by using pictures and portions of videos I took while I was recording, then I composed the soundtrack entirely with the sounds created out of this session.

I hope you like it!

Diego

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  • Wow diego.
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  • Diego Stocco plus 1 year ago
    Thanks Karen!
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  • Diego Stocco plus 11 months ago
    I decided to post two tracks I created with the same piano that later I used for the Burning Piano session. Several people asked me why I burned that piano, and the reason it's very simple. It was impossible to keep it tuned and many hammers and keys were damaged. As an old piano its life was over and destined to die covered in dust, but sampled as the Burning Piano in a certain way it's still alive and it's now part of a software instrument that many people play and make music with it. The tracks are here: behance.net/DiegoStocco
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  • Frank Neumann 10 months ago
    Awesome , Diego, you have lotsa and nice ideas to fin new "sounds", lotsa work but very, very great results.. Go on, my friend...

    Frank
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  • Diego Stocco plus 10 months ago
    Thanks Frank! : )
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  • Gaetano Millarte 9 months ago
    Sei un pazzo!!! :D
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  • Diego Stocco plus 9 months ago
    eh eh grazie : )
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  • Tito Sacchi 8 months ago
    Sono d'accordo. Solo un pazzo puo creare pezzi di tale intensita' e bellezza. Questo mi fa davvero accapponare la pelle.
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  • Diego Stocco plus 8 months ago
    eh eh, un pò di pazzia è indispensabile nella vita! ; )
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  • Will Humphreys 7 months ago
    Requiem for a piano. Beautiful
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  • Diego Stocco plus 7 months ago
    Thanks Will : )
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  • Doorman67 4 months ago
    First I thought that it was kinda sad with all the "fake" computer-generated sounds you had added.
    I was hoping to hear something raw (or close to that; my girlfriend had send me a link with "Music From A Tree"). But then I read the text above and understood that every sound I heard was from the piano itself.
    It then left me with the same feeling I got from listening to Music From A Tree: This is organic industrial!

    To sum it up: Sounds very cool!!!
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  • Diego Stocco plus 4 months ago
    Thanks : )
    Yes, this video is like a presentation of the concept, there was a lot of work behind creating those sounds, especially because I wanted to record as much as I could out of the only take.
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  • Aya E 4 months ago
    all of your work is so, so beautiful and your concepts are so brilliant. keep it up! i'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with next :)
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  • polplanells 4 months ago
    Very, very nice.
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  • Bob Ketchum 3 months ago
    Damn!
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