How to obtain experimentalish backround sounds

[bubblypatrick]

I've really been diggin work by tycho and bonobo lately and was wondering if you guys had any tips on how to create interesting background textured sounds. A good example is Kiara by binobo, though another good example would be the more well known pieces by flying lotus

 

[LostProfit]

You mean pink noise?

Look into wavetable synthesis. Simple things like arpeggios and modulation can make a synth sound organic.

Why don't you link some birdsong to a wavetable synth, seems like the type of thing Bonobo would do...

 

[krushing]

Experimental(ish) stuff tends to come out of experimentation

Start doing stuff that you wouldn't usually do; use effects that you think to "belong" to a certain task for something completely different; take samples of random noise and turn them into pads or percussion and learn synthesis, if just enough to understand something from your experiments - anything's fair game. Not that there isn't anything to learn from others, it's just that it often leads into bland pastiches of what's already been done, which is a phenomenon that plagues a lot of mainstream music these days in general.

(end rant)