This experimental song by the Beatles is a large part of my inspiration for audio montage. Initially upon listening to this I was kind of freaked out, didn't help that I was in a house on my own with only a desk lamp on.
The creepiness quickly became appealing somehow, I've mentioned before I like that psychological sort of thing. And as a music student with copious training in aural theory, I began to pick apart the sounds in the track, recognised which were distorted, how many layers in each section.
I researched it as well; this was pretty innovative for its time.
- The song is a compilation of tracks, some from the recorded archives of a recording studio, others were recordings of the band members themselves
- The voice repeating 'number 9' is an engineer testing equipment
Use of repetition is especially effective - 'number 9', and a couple of particular musical recordings, one of these is classical piano, the other is reversed, which interestingly makes it difficult to interpret what instruments are playing; definitely strings - probably cello, the higher music is possibly clarinet? some kind of woodwind.
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