Sounds of the frozen north.

andowrites

I fell in love with this sound pack. I've found some similar sounds in Korg Gadget too. But I'm wondering where else I can find some more Nordic, Siberian sounding wasteland-like sounds like this to expand on it.

Please share tips and tricks for buying, finding, begging, stealing, or borrowing these sounds below. Name the apps, the presets, the makers. Let's get chilly today.

OscarSouth

I work with an artist who grew up inside the polar circle in a North Siberian geographic location called ‘The Sakha Republic’. She’s a master of some of the instruments and vocals techniques from there as well as highly knowledgable in the traditions.

We recently released the multi tracks of our most recent track, in case anyone here wanted to experiment with them and share the results. You can see that post here:
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/comment/916064/#Comment_916064

bandcamp link with lyrics and translation https://udagan.bandcamp.com/track/snow-fox

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There might be some sounds you can use! Just credit Saydyy-Kuo Fedorova and the project UDAGAN, if you use them in anything.

There’s some takes of traditional vocal ambience and such like in there.

If you happened to want anything more/more specific in the future, we do take on remote session work (for a fee). Get in touch with us via the form on https://UDAGANuniverse.com

Here’s an example of past session work for the track of another artist:
https://elfinbow.bandcamp.com/track/daffadilly-down-2

You might also like this older track of ours that has lots of layered Siberian ambience and a narrative from local folklore:

https://udagan.bandcamp.com/track/t-kh

It’s free to listen but feel free to purchase either of the tracks on there — we don’t have any gigs these days so anything we earn though there is a big boost to us and helps us create more music and art.

Maybe we should create a signature ‘UDAGAN’ soundpack in the future!

andowrites

@OscarSouth said:
I work with an artist who grew up inside the polar circle in a North Siberian geographic location called ‘The Sakha Republic’. She’s a master of some of the instruments and vocals techniques from there as well as highly knowledgable in the traditions.

Yes, release!

I've been contemplating incorporating voice into this idea too. I feel an idea for an album coming on…

OscarSouth

There’s an ethnic instrument called ‘khomus’ on the track (and in the multis linked) that might be interesting to you. There are also traditional vocal ‘timbre’ techniques used in an ambient way to emulate nature sounds, which blend and move in the background texture.

Those are probably the most interesting parts as far as ‘sound of the far north’, but you might find something else useful in there too.

Since we release it for public collaboration, we don’t mind it being used creatively — just credit the source did you do.

andowrites

I found some others in Spitfire Audio LABS Tundra collection.

andowrites

@OscarSouth said:
There’s an ethnic instrument called ‘khomus’ on the track (and in the multis linked) that might be interesting to you. There are also traditional vocal ‘timbre’ techniques used in an ambient way to emulate nature sounds, which blend and move in the background texture.

Those are probably the most interesting parts as far as ‘sound of the far north’, but you might find something else useful in there too.

Since we release it for public collaboration, we don’t mind it being used creatively — just credit the source did you do.

Thank you. I'll let you know.