A texture library featuring two different quartets. What we did was improvise together, and for example if recording the fragile texture in D, we'd use techniques like spectral scrubs, sul pont, harmonics etc and every note we'd play would be a D, but not sticking to the same technique or octave for too long, and trying to keep the overall collective level of energy constant.
There are two quartets sampled. The first is strings, that is violin, viola, cello and bass, improvising together to make five different textures: smooth, rough, fragile, broken and atonal. Each texture has a different set of techniques. The second quartet is a hurdy-gurdy, a tagelharpa with extra sympathetic resonance strings, a Hungarian zither, and bass. These instruments have C and G drones playing constantly, so for example playing A results in some A, some C drone, and some G drone. There are two textures here, smooth and rough.
Walkthrough video below. Please see the Media section to the left for demo tracks.
Over 1.6 GB of sample material.
- String insturments: violin, viola, cello and bass.
- String textures: smooth, rough, fragile, broken and atonal.
- C drone instruments: hurdy-gurdy, tagelharpa with sympathetic resonance strings, Hungarian zither, bass.
- C drone textures: smooth and rough.
- Samples varying in length from over 40 seconds to over 6 minutes.
- Simulated round robins by playing the samples from different starting points.
- Controls including attack, release, width, octave and sparkle.
Requires the free Plogue Sforzando sampler, which works on 64-bit Windows and Mac systems, 4 GB RAM, and an SSD.