Seal Sounds from Encounters at the End of the World

[glenclosed]

Do that, Liar Bird !!

[paradix]

I like how her voice cracks as she says the word "crack" at 0:20

[dookie3k]

APHEX TWIN SEALS!

[academicroach]

Can they shut the fuck up so i can hear the seals Please!

[denfilade]

d-d-d-d-d-d-drop the bass

[SilaconYT]

When i saw the torch i was like NUUUU DONT HURT THEM D:

[stifflersmum7]

Wow I didn't know Pink Floyd sounded like seals...

[robofabi]

I like to play this video together with another video... starting at 1:30 min at the same time as Space Music Improvisation by gabriellehto....It sounds amazing...synthy wonderous space music and seal sounds!

[MakinaDeMuerte]

Seal sounds, the original dubstep.

[Phuckyooo]

@MakinaDeMuerte You obviously have no idea what dubstep is

[MakinaDeMuerte]

@Phuckyooo I've been listening to dubstep since like late 2005... So... I think I have a pretty good idea of what dubstep is and what it sounds like.

[Phuckyooo]

@MakinaDeMuerte Really? I dont hear any bass. Just because it sounds like electro music, or a synthesizer doesnt mean it sounds like dubstep. 

[MakinaDeMuerte]

@Phuckyooo Well it's not my fault your speakers suck... And no it doesn't but I don't hear many other electronic music genres use the booms, clicks, and crescendos that are prevalent in dubstep.

[PenguinInc]

Hey you, out there on the ice, can you hear me?

Waiting for someone to call out would you film me?

[Dzzo222]

This inspired me to write a screenplay

[ProfessorLerxstDirk]

Sounded pretty cool after that chick stopped yapping, what the hell was her problem.

[JahArmyPrevails]

@ProfessorLerxstDirk ...4real..Gave her a chance to speak but it was overwhelmin just skipped all of it and got to the point



[hogo1]

@ProfessorLerxstDirk

she is putting what your about the hear in context, if you didn't know what those sounds were would you think they are seals? jeeze

[MakinaDeMuerte]

@ProfessorLerxstDirk 2 old dudes to talk to... isolation... she's probably messed up and has a lot of problems.

[nokash80]

Piękne. Jak z muzyki JMJ :)

[frontschinken]

sounds like sonic charge's synplant ;)

[mannyfit75]

They look like red human seals.

[jenlivernois]

Are those fur-trimmed collars? That kind defeats the purpose.

[RayRoark2009]

am I the only who actually thought this video was scary

[ArvonLisaVero]

Are those sounds recorded with underwater mics beneath the ice or through it with mics placed on top? If the latter, I'd imagine the dispersion of sound waves travelling in ice is responsible for a lot of the "synthiness" in those calls... pretty much any sound coming from below would be transformed into fast "zap" glissandi.

[hogo1]

@ArvonLisaVero

no, its from a hydrophone



[wesgriff1]

I heard these scientists got frost bite on their ears from doing this.

[dontLEAVEmePLS]

Seals are like DJ's on the sea... can i bring them home ..? xD

[ArcticMantis]

Some one tryed to pass this off as alien life on a video

[NeoSapienist]

that chicks from another planet man, god i love smart girls

[RENTAMOB1]

i would have posted this one ,i seen it just last night very good post the land where there's no gangs no cops hardley no crime at all and clean too ! i'am going...

[emoraz]

Could be interesting: A seal on the stage instead a VCS3. Now the problem: find a seal and convince the noble animal to sing along on a gig...

[techkid100]

I watched the encounters at the end of the world

[benjidrake]

Wikipedia reckons "The sound recordings of the seals were produced by Douglas Quin, a renown Sound expert and professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, another recipient of the Antarctic Artists and Writers grant.[3]" I don't mind if the seal sounds are artificial, the shot of the entranced scientists with their ears to the ice is poignant enough for me.

[matthewme23]

They do sound like 'pink floyd' or more correctly 'Richard Wright'!

[payfortheircrimes]

Yeah, you are making yourself look pretty stupid. No amount of jargon is going to convince me to side with you over those scientists.

[gothpd]

...???

[screwtape84]

proof there is a thin line beetween synthesis and nature

[Kurious2no]

tekkentool you really are a "tool!"

[tobesters]

Interesting stuf!

[collodiallofi]

those seals have a lot of gas

[mojo5157]

My cat is just sitting there ignoring it. :D Cool sounds!

[wolfy167]

My cat is going nuts trying to figure out where the sound is coming from.

[DrWurm]

This reminds me of The Big Lebowski when The Dude is in the bathtub listening to "Songs of the Whale."

[excess5]

Reminds me of the intro to We are the night

[jetblack2123]

My tinnitus would be driving me mad.

[shakeyphil]

Maybe the seals are calibrating their 5.1 amps?

[anothernick]

Far out!

[bobkush]

Neat

[taranakinz]

DARKSIDED! THEY'RE DARKSIDED!

[aquaknot]

That seal be beat-boxin'!

[iluvspurple]

reminds me of teletubies

[magikroom]

I've spent thousands on Synths to make sounds like that...and all along I just needed to plug a Seal in!...phew!

[wowthungsten]

Analog sounds warmer anyway.

[Jogamatic]

especially after you put the electronics in the water with the Seals.

OH, you meant sounds warmer in a different way? ^_^

[gerstube1]

@magikroom giggity

[TMundo]

@magikroom supposedly the orb sampled these to use on their new project with Gilmore

[CCesta]

and they're in stereo too

[zombie01]

Some of those seals have some serious sub-bass control.

[Tediscool]

Seals are demonic!

[colamonstrosity]

somebody should make an electro mix to those sounds.

[atlasrepza]

1:step. know the world

2:step. see no 1

3:step behave and show respect...

4:step goto 1

Syntax error

Ready.

[nebula32]

pure music

[buchsdrn]

OMG I just watched this on tv, it's so "other-worldly" to hear those sounds and to think that they come from seals is just so amazing!!!

[tekkentool]

those sounds don't come from seals, they come from analogue synthesizers. they are sound effects.

[flips300021]

"tekkentool" You are a twat!

[tekkentool]

what are you all, fucking idiots. trust me

[flips300021]

"trust me"

I wouldn't trust a person who comes out with idiotic comments, such as yours, as far as i could throw them!

In the video, the Marine Biologist states..."They sound like, i don't know... Pink Floyd or something"

She did not mean that in the literal sense. It was an analogy.

The Seal sounds are real, recorded by extremely high sensitive equipment for us to appreciate. Did you not see them listening through the ice? Have you ever seen the "whole" film?..Perhaps you ought to! Or read

[tekkentool]

you are a fucking failure at life if you believe those sounds came from seals. tell me the difference between an oberheim ob-x and an Ob-xa and maybe i'll take your opinion as valid, but you would have to be a retard to think these came from seals.

apparently i'm an idiot for knowing what analogue synthesizers are and what they sound like, i'm sorry for knowing more than you about something :)

Look up "modular synthesizer" on youtube :)

[flips300021]

tekkentool. You have just got to be kidding me! I am ROFL!!

[tekkentool]

fine, have it your way. your funeral.

you probably get into arguments with your doctor over whether or not you have X disease, or tell your mechanic to fuck off because this could ONLY be Y



i wouldn't try arguing with you over heating engineering, don't start with me, these are synthesizers, i could explain to you how to make every single sound in this video.

[jetjaguar3000]

These do sound very much like synths, and I was really skeptical too, but turns out you're wrong tekkentool.

Go find the Macaulay Library website and search Weddell Seal there. Many examples of recordings done by scientists, going back as early as 1964.

[jetjaguar3000]

Another good search to put into google is "quin austral soundscapes", if you're interested in acoustics and so on. Doug Quin, who recorded these sounds, talks about his experience in Antarctica.

[theparadisedream]

you have to be a retard to talk about something you don't have an idea.... I heard them for real...you are apart of those people if they don't see they don't believe....just because you know the synthesizers doesn't mean it came from them;))

[tekkentool]

seals choral chambers don't have resonance knobs, noise generators or LPF's. most choral chambers of mammals are similar to chained BPF's in sonic qualities, but all of the sounds here are undoubtedly made using low pass filters, take the diving "bass drum-ish" sound, that is a synthesizers LPF in self oscillation, with an ADSR envelope controlling the cutoff frequency,

there's a reason why the same video is named "MOOG seal sounds"

i know the synths, so i know it came from them, easy logic

[theparadisedream]

man... it's it easier that moog try to simulate the sounds made from them?... i can do sounds la these with Pro 53 so i know... but it doesn't mean it's made with a sinth.You haven't been there...go there and tell you will be convinced:)

[STcanislupus]

stfu tentacool

[tekkentool]

wow gee, i just can't find a flaw in that perfectly thought out logical argument!

freedom of speech baby it's a two way street!

[garrettsheridan]

There is no truth. There is only perception.

[staphinfection]

Best part of the film! Such a great documentary from an amazing director!

[Eugen1Matei]

This sounds like trance, WOW I love it I could literally use these sounds as effect samples in my songs!!!

[Therizin0]

still damn enjoyable and fascinating stuff...it's still a movie

[schwerttau]

great bit, great doc

[lpavluke]

This really is remarkable, but is it real? Herzog has been known to make stuff up in his documentaries.

[Eugen1Matei]

it's real ...

[Therizin0]

What has he made up?

[lpavluke]

Well, he regularly coaches and invents anecdotes for his documentary subjects - such as Dieter Dengler in 'Little Dieter Needs to Fly', where he told Dengler to make up this story about compulsively opening and closing doors as a result of his imprisonment in the Vietnam War.

In 'Bells From the Deep', Herzog completely made up that a people believed that at the bottom of a lake lived a city of angels, and would creep onto the ice in winter to glimpse them, risking death as the ice creaked.

[Therizin0]

Haha, that's awesome...but those are pretty old. His more recent ones seem like he's gotten better at capturing the things he's going for in his movies. These people all actually live these lives there, and have their own stories. The reality Herzog goes for is usually crazier than most of what you could come up with...and is presented in a way that speaks for itself.

[lpavluke]

I've seen all of his recent films, and I have to disagree. Grizzly Man, for example, had the most obvious coaching in a documentary I've ever seen. I guarantee you some of the stories told by the people at the station are fabrications.

I still love Herzog, but I think it is important that people know he doesn't believe in objective truth in his documentaries. Rather, he seeks an 'ecstatic truth', which he thinks gives him licence to commit fakery.

[Therizin0]

Hm...I just saw the Imagine interview with Herzog where he explains those fabrications. While that sort of embellishment deserves to be questioned (though not necessarily disclosed), I can understand his justification for it. The doors thing was absurd, but in the case of Encounters, I think many of the scientists would be more likely to stick to their own stories. In The White Diamond, he really did encounter those situations. He's still good at show the essential truth he's after.

[lpavluke]

That's right, it's the truth he's after. But isn't there a difference between HIS truth and THE truth? He reminds me of Freud, imposing his own psychology and interpretations on his patients then claiming he's discovered some profound truth. It may be brilliant and profound, but it's also somewhat unethical for a documentarian, IMO.

[Therizin0]

The way he explained it, it sounded like the facilitation for how the truth is reached. Freud definitely did want things to be a certain way, and saw things as such....Herzog has a genuinely interesting cosmological viewpoint though, and shows it from many angles...Seal sounds, waterfall caves, penguin derangement. He definitely directs his documentaries, more than presents cases, but take Van Gogh...he saw things in such a way, and we enjoy it because it's not photo-reality, but can be truer

[Therizin0]

As far as the integrity, I think he's responsible with the means he takes to get to the points, but it's definitely not a good habit for a documentarian. It's tricky gray area, but think his films achieve the point he's trying to make, and does it iwonderous and inventive ways, and you just gotta accept it at that.

[lpavluke]

Agreed.

I was happy to see Werner get some face time at the Oscars last night.

[Therizin0]

Definitely...it's good to see more mainstream recognition...too bad he didn't win his category, but maybe someday

[MintySpunkBubble]

Maybe you have to contrive lies and commit fakery to others in order to get them to the truth? If you're surrounded and mis-guided by lies already, I don't see the diffrence between what Herzog does than what is perpetuated as being normal and truthful.