The Ultimate Meow Mix
I’ll be sending it to Mark Hoback soon, who has promised to include an MP3 of it in the next issue of Virtual Occoquan – and with Rayne co-editing it is already rumored to be “the best issue ever™.”
So far, only Claudette, Twyla, and Sister Bubbles have heard it. The Basic Meow Mix was a 30-second mix of the can-opener, various meows, Pounce can shaking, dry food rattling, and Fancy Feast tops popping. That was okay, but later I added a coda with Twyla “talking” and a fadeout on a particularly angst-ridden yowl courtesy of Claudette. That was a little better, but it begged for an intro and the total saturation of sounds was a bit much even for “the girls,” so I put together 8 seconds of discrete cat food sounds to taper into the general cacophony that followed, which was shortened by a gradual 150% accelerando to create a feeling of increasing intensity . That will be the MP3 on VO, but I’m working on an even better version.
A friend has taken 6 wave files (left, right, center, LFE, right surround, and left surround) I made with Adobe Audition and mixed them into a surround sound wave file that plays on a DVD player/amplifier that can decode DTS. This can be burned with any CD-burner software (I used Nero), and provides the curious felines with total immersion in their favorite sounds. Their reaction is about what you’d expect. They perk up their ears and walk in circles as each of the speakers presents them with fresh stimulation. Sooner or later, I’ll have to stop playing it because they demand to be fed after each presentation and that gets expensive and makes them fat. Besides, I fear that someone will call PETA on me and I really can’t afford a cat shrink right now.
7:09:24 PM 
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