Scapes is a project by sound designer Francis Preve, who dives into the belief that synthesizers can literally sound like anything.
This statement describes the project exactly:
“If we tend to recreate what we have heard, it is partly because we are synthesizing something we have listened to with some care. So why not go back to the richness and complexity of sound as we hear it in everyday life? Why not combine actively listening to a sound walk or a field recording with the art of producing something using synthesis, instead of a recording? “
Preve’s work goes in this direction, it does not have a single sample, the whole ambiental environment, such as the rainy day in the city, summer midnight, the birds, are synthetic.
Those sounds are also synthesized using just several instances of Ableton’s stock-synth operator and some internal effects.
It might not sound 100% realistic, but the resemblance with the natural world is stunning.
https://www.francispreve.com/scapes
Resources
Francis Preve – Scapes
CMD – What if you used synthesizers to emulate nature and reality?
