Pulse for Pigments

I am very proud to present you my new preset bank for Arturia's Pigments synthesizer: Pulse.

"In physics, a pulse is a generic term describing a single disturbance that moves through a transmission medium. This medium may be vacuum (in the case of electromagnetic radiation) or matter, and may be indefinitely large or finite."

"A pulse in signal processing is a rapid, transient change in the amplitude of a signal from a baseline value to a higher or lower value, followed by a rapid return to the baseline value
Wikipedia

I have now implemented the concept that I developed in 2020 with U-He's Hive "pulse for hive2", pulses for cinematic music, advertising trailers and the scoring of games, with Arturia's Pigments synthesizer.
Pigments enables very complex controls through the "function generator" envelopes. These rhythmically modulate filters, oscillator volume, grain parameters, effect parameters and much more.
The complex function generators interact with the mod wheel, which plays an important role in this sound set. All movements in the presets are largely controlled by the mod wheel.
With the preset "Comb Pulse" for example: it is possible to fade from a pulsating rhythm to a bandpass filtered pad.
Another good example is the preset "Decoupled". Here you can continuously slow down a 16th beat to a standstill and even transform the envelope of the function generator into a mirrored waveform.
"Pulse" is suitable for the accompaniment of film scenes, action scenes, for creating suspense, for game music but also for electronic music in general.

32 Presets

4 Pads-Evolving
1 Pad-Ambient 
2 Pads- Noise Sequence
1 Keys-Bell
2 Sequences-Evolving
7 Sequences-Melodic
6 Sequences-Noise
4 Sequences-Rhythmic
2 Sound Effects-Ambient
3 Sound Effects-Creative


the presets were created with the current version 3.7.0

Pulse Pigments Audio Demo

a few soundscapes i've made with Luftrum's wonderful kontakt instrument Bioscape. i used customized samples: field recordings and synthesized sounds to create these immersive and surreal sound landscapes. https://www.luftrum.com/bioscape/

Bioscape Arovane Soundscapes

Belgian composer and sound artist Adriaan Swerts announces the release of his debut full-length album One in collaboration with piano and coffee records – a collection of twelve deeply personal compositions that, originally, were not conceived with the idea of ever getting released but that, like shards of ice, slowly floated together and formed an island of music.

Both a life-threatening accident – which caused his disability –and the passing of his grandfather confronted Adriaan with the fragility of life. Thematically, this album deals with the eternal, life fading away, death, and the afterlife. At the same time, it attempts to celebrate the beauty of love, life, nature and all that lives on earth. 

The characteristic sounds on this album are field recordings of natural landscapes Adriaan visited, which he transformed into instruments and used almost solely to compose. The piano and other acoustic instruments such as the harmonium and strings, as old but not forgotten classical friends, are the other elements that accompany these transformed natural sounds. Icelandic glaciers, geysers, Scottish lochs, waterfalls, oceans and more all found a home on this album. In addition, Swerts uses reel-to-reel tape processing to degrade the sound of the recordings and make them sound broken – a reflection of what his body feels like.

The artwork of the album similarly reflects Adriaan's focus on the theme of the fragility of life and nature. The cracks in the ice symbolise how easily something can be broken into pieces – just like what happened to his body after his accident – but can still be a whole. In addition, Adriaan crafted a videoclip for each piece of the album through the process of cymatics – the study of visible sound vibration and the transformational nature of sound and matter. He filmed the sound vibrations caused by his music in water, unveiling beautiful and unique geometric patterns for each composition. 

One comes out digitally and on limited edition CD on the 28th of October, featuring artwork and design by Celia Bayo.

Purchase

Adriaan Swerts - Broken Silence

DR-83; DAVID CORDERO & MIGUEL OTERO - A Possible Distance is due out on CD / DL October 14th

dronarivm.bandcamp.com

The world is undergoing severe social and political changes in a short time that has taken individualism to the far extreme.

For this reason Possible Distances is a reflexion on the gap between human relations and everyday life; distance and closeness. The immediacy and the small personal moments that make us feel even more alone.

Written in the distance, Cordero and Otero build a bridge between their recording studios with minimalist melodies wrapped in luminous skies to enhance common places while nature takes its course.

After Salinas (Archives, 2020) and Distension (Playneutral, 2021), this work together brings us the kindness of small daily details.
credits
releases October 14, 2022

Written and produced by David & Miguel in Cadiz, south of Spain
Mixed & mastered at Nada Nueva Studio
Illustrations by Eva Arango

A Possible Distance

Buy CD / DL

DAVID CORDERO & MIGUEL OTERO - Everyday Things

Snowdrops - Nostalgia De La Luz

~ LAAPS 024 ~ [SEQ.03 - LP24]

artist : Tomoyoshi Date
 album : 438Hz As It is, As you are  (「あるがまま、あなたのままに」)
duration : 27.19 mn (45 rpm) 36.27 mn (33 rpm)
 date : December 19th, 2022

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / gold LP / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : December 02nd, 2022 / official release : December 19th, 2022
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note: this project has been thought, created and recorded to be played in 33 rpm and 45 rpm.

All music composed by Tomoyoshi Date.
Recorded at Studio Familia.
Field recordings recorded in Izu, Shizuoka, Japan.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree(12K)
Artwork by Jürgen Heckel
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/

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438Hz As It is, As you are (あるがまま、あなたのままに)

Tomoyoshi Date - 熱 netsu (45 rpm)

~ LAAPS 027 ~ [SEQ.04 - LP27]

artists : Russell Burden (Being) & Craig Tattersall (The Humble Bee)
 album : Diagenesis
duration : 44 mn
 date : April 29th, 2023

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / green transparent LP / pantone / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : April 07th, 2023 / official release : April 29th, 2023
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All Tracks written and produced by Russell Burden & Craig Tattersall.

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Russell Burden
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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diagenesis: the watery interactions, microbial activities, alterations, compactions, and chemical transformations of sediments slowly converting to rock.
this music was created through a process of exchange - passing tracks back and forth, each layer of sound buried a little deeper beneath the next.

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.leavings.co.uk/

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Russell Burden & Craig Tattersall - Settlings (excerpt)

b.sukippin – here is my kingdom

To all - Track 12 of the album Dett by Kevin Verwijmeren. 
Available via Bandcamp and other record stores. 
Pre-order 01/10/2018
Release    23/10/2018

Dett

To All

'Parallel Inflection' is condensed compositions from Warmth's third ambient album 'Parallel', which includes two previously unreleased arrangements from the Parallel sessions.

Vinyl/Digital

Warmth - Concave (Rework)

Taken from the upcoming album 'Departures', forthcoming on Fluid Audio...

Credits:

All tracks composed, performed and produced by Maria Papadomanolaki and Nhung Nguen in London, Brighton (Digital Music and Sound Arts Studios, UoB), UK, Hanoi, Vietnam and Chania, Crete.

Mastering: Ian Hawgood

Print design: Craig Tattersall

Packaging design: Daniel Crossley

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Pulse Pigments Audio Demo

arovane_music_sounddesign

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