What does an earthquake sound like? + FREE Sample Library

[JuanUys]

Can't remember the artist now, but he placed contact microphones on telephone cables in the outback, and recorded many hours worth of cables expanding/contracting in the sun, then sped the sound files up to 5 minute "songs". Otherworldly.

[stevemuzak]

Incredible project. It's like you dig deep for music and it's there somewhere. It's like looking for gold.

[timdanyo]

The irony is the processed earthquake data sounds so delicate and chill. Thinking of the mass energy released during an earthquake. Your channel is a creatives gift. I love your fusion of science and art!

[MattnUska]

I live in Alaska. It’s pretty wild when you can hear an earthquake coming. It’s like no other sound. It doesn’t sound like the waves you are using. It’s more like a very low frequency barely audible sine wave with some warble to it. Then it starts shaking. You can’t always hear it but since I moved to an area that is right up against the base of a mountain I can hear it more often. Maybe I’ll try to sound design it and upload it.

[ember-moonglow]

Watching your videos reminds me of when I was working on tracks in high school. I'd grab the nearest items and start sampling random things from them, for instance, one of my best snares was made from shaking my thermos of coffee, and one of my best drums was the sample of me dropping my head to the table when I found out one of my tracks was deleted whilst recording another. I've even used party poppers and snappers to make quick and aggressive drum kits.

[mikeblack]

The Earthquake Drum Kit is absolutely fantastic. I have been looking for something that sounds like this for a while, many thanks.

[g.mantua]

Only David Hilowitz would think of doing something like this.

[hawkrabin]

Hi David, your imagination generosity are a template that the rest of the world could learn a great deal from. As always...thank you for making my day, and giving me hope.

[billsimpson]

I've scrolled through the DS library a few times and have always bypassed this sample set. Today this video came up in my feed and I decided to watch it. Well, I'm on my way back to the DS library to download one more!
Anytime I start one of your videos it always seems that I watch them all the way through. Can't say that about many content creators.

[GettinLiv]

You are wonderfully gifted and even more inspirational! The joy you have for learning and sharing helps me capture that childhood wonder. Thanks a ton!

[pedrova]

as a guy who live in Chile, those are "nice" sounding earthquakes 😄
Very entertaining and creative!!

[inthefade]

I've done this will NASA's publicly available sounds too. Jupiter and Saturn's radio emissions are ghostly.

[macronencer]

This is the content I follow you for - you're an inspiration! I've always loved the idea of using non-audio data to make music, and I've dabbled in it a little myself. I'm currently recording 256 nights' worth of sleep monitor graphs so that I can make a wavetable of my own sleep patterns, for example. I LOVE this stuff :)

[earlo]

Yet again another video that blows my mind with how creative you are. Keep up the amazing work David.

[jasonfrowe]

In a similar fashion, you can also take observations from distance stars and turn them into instruments or just listen. NASA's Kepler has a public archive of 200, 000 stars that were observed continuously for 4-years. One can go from seismology to asteroseismology!

[DUHRIZEO]

Following you down this creative rabbit hole was such a joy to experience. I feel like I've unlocked a new perspective on music. So cool!

[owenlevan-uhler]

the creativity and novelty in what you think to sample and the diversity of sounds you get from them will never cease to amaze me. i genuinely get so inspired when watching your videos. cant wait to use these sample packs!

[iNerdier]

Fun/Pedantic fact: the Richter scale hasn't been used to measure earthquakes in quite a while. It's generally called the moment scale now, which my civil engineer great uncle always liked to correct me on when he was talking about them.

[AlexMillerCountry]

You need to do an episode on Lap Steel I think people would love to sample that.

[nicolefermor]

you are so incredibly talented and hard-working my god its insane. your work always amazes me. thank you for the sample and the video