A calm ambient live performance in the backyard

Hey fellow Elektronauts,

at the time of writing this, it is super hot here in Europe, I‘m sure some of you will have noticed :slight_smile:

As it is basically impossible to exist in my studio during the heatwave, I grabbed my Tonverk and fled to our backyard. Accompanied by just two samples, a dictaphone-mic to crumble paper into and a handheld recorder to capture a performance.

Usually when I perform my tracks to record them to tape, the sound design and composition stages are already done and I improvise with the track structures, mixes, etc.

For this performance, I decided to change things up and create the whole piece while recording. The Tonverk was key here, as it allows me to cue individual tracks to my headphones and then seamlessly fade them into the main mix once I‘m happy with a new sound.

All the sound design is happening inside the machine. With a lot of resampling. This leads to a slow-moving, droney experience. But I‘m really happy with the outcome and at least to me it reflects the temperature well.

I put the audio on bandcamp as a name-your-price download:

I hope you enjoy it.

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