You are standing on the sharp steel rocks of the walruses' beach. They bellow to each other using an ancient protocol that somehow (luckily) survived decades of implants and being reprogrammed by morons. I took the opportunity to go crazy with sweep and aube (both available from metadecks.org) for this. The piece I was given to start with (gravy.ogg) is very abstract, so I first found some interesting sections of sound from it (clangs and short tones), cut them out using sweep and saved them to disk. I then sequenced these in aube, using the drum machine and a couple of atonal loops, put them through a couple of resonant lowpass filters (one with a pretty gated cutoff envelope) and some delays, and recorded a few takes (using aube's internal sample recorder), each a few minutes long. These recordings formed the "melody" bits which come in about halfway through walrus.ogg. I then loaded these back into sweep, cut out an 8 beat loop of a wierd bassy sounds, duplicated that and then played around with scrubby until I was used to the samples. I then recorded a few minutes of that (using a "record demo file" hack I'd put into sweep earlier in the day ;), triggering the various samples and scrubbing around in them. The result probably sounds a bit raw because I didn't do any mastering, just recorded straight to disk, plus aube's filters are pretty dirty ;) My main aim was to make something different using only the source material, so there's nothing external in this -- it's all just bits of gravy.ogg edited, sequenced, and played using aube and sweep. Conrad.