99% of "Animals" is made by using Uhhyou Plugins (うっひょうプラグイン), which I also made.

Animal names used in titles are cut up from random Wikipedia articles.

Most of the composition is made by improvisation and overdub. But I'm bad at playing instruments and that's why rhythm is so inconsistent. Once this waddling mess is recorded, there appears some sparse part and dense part. While overdubbing, I put more notes on dense part, and not so much for sparse part. After some iteration, that waddling mess becomes a mass of waddling mess, and ended up as this album.

Plugin development, especially testing DSP components, was the hardest part of making this album. The first commit was 3 years ago, and I didn't even know how to write C++ at that time. The strategy here was perfecting the sound design part by developing plugins, so that I can just drop the random sound and it will be good. I'd call this circuitous John Cage strategy. I went through great effort of developing plugins, and finally threw the resulting sounds into WAV files after 3 years. But John Cage just dropped real physical objects into bathtub, and it sounds plainly gorgeous compared to my bastardized synthesizers which have to run on real-time.

Let's move on to the contents, and the advertisement of my plugins. Distinctive short decaying high metal tones are mostly made from EnvelopedSine, and that's the most used synthesizer in this album. Low drums in "Crimson-headed partridge" is also made from it. If you hear long decaying reverb, that's almost certainly comes out from L3/L4Reverb. You can hear them in "Ibexes and deer" and "Tigerwings". Those reverbs are the savior of my bad plays. They are also good to use with CollidingCombSynth. "Quagga" is the loudest piece in this album. Typical sound of ParallelComb and UltrasonicRingMod can be heard.