Intro piece for Orchestral Tools Creative Soundpack for SINE:

Umbra
Shamanic ritual ensemble
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Music by Frederik Theyssen

Evoke the spirits with this unique ensemble. Featuring Middle-American flutes, skin drums, and a humming Shaman.

Umbra gives you three wooden flutes: The high quena, mid-range quenacho, and a contrabass flute. Expressive and playable, with slides, ornaments, and a ‘finger-tapping’ pizzicato.

The ritual also involves percussion, including a gong drum, a shaman drum, a rainmaker, and a frame drum. Played in a number of standard and non-standard styles, including muted hits and rubber ball bowing.

The Shaman himself presides over the ceremony, with a bass voice that goes down to a low G. With arcane mutterings, and humming that morphs through multiple vowels.

All that, plus some stunning processed patches: Umbra will help you conjure another world.

Umbra

Intro piece for Orchestral Tools Creative Soundpack for SINE:

Patina
Living room piano
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Music by Frederik Theyssen

Patina is the sound of a well-loved upright piano—worn and faded, but with rich, complex tones, and imbued with personality from generations of players.

Patina was intricately recorded in both Felt and Pure versions, from multiple mic positions. With three round robins in both versions, it’s perfect for pattern-based playing. We recorded experimental playing techniques, using plectrums and brushes, for example. And Patina also offers a wide spectrum of sound design patches—from delicate dulcimers and multi-spectral pads to mournful, lumbering basses.

With its distinct tone, rich harmonics and heady atmospherics, Patina creates worlds of spatially rich sound that can be used in a variety of ways—beautifully capturing the essence of a fading memory, flickering randomly through the dusty afternoon light.

Patina

Music by Frederik Theyssen
www.frederiktheyssen.com

Photography by Anubhav Saxena.

This song has been written in sibelius (real sheets yeah!) and could be played like this by a real orchestra. 

Music by Frederik Theyssen.
www.frederiktheyssen.com

Photography by Jordan McQueen.

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Intro to Orchestral Tools first Creative Soundpack for SINE:

Arbos
Natural forest percussion
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Raw, elemental percussion that channels the bond between rhythm and nature.

Capture the atmospheric tones of the natural world with Arbos. Experiment with fresh percussive sounds ranging from root hits, rustling branch rolls, and dense woodland textures. Arbos’ distinct organic character can wrap itself around a wide spectrum of contemporary genres, shaping adventurous scores and left-field productions.

Arbos

Intro piece for Orchestral Tools Creative Soundpack for SINE:

Babel
Studio voice textures
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Three vivid voices designed to build moods and evoke subtle musical atmospheres.

The beauty of Babel lies in its subtleties. Rather than focusing on the all-out power of a choir, Babel draws you in close with soft vowels, elegant textures, and unexpected vocal patterns. With two female voices and one male voice—soprano, alto, and bass—this is a vital vocal tool for sound design, musical textures, and creative scoring.

Babel

Intro piece for Orchestral Tools Creative Soundpack for SINE:

Amber
Downtuned string quartet
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A string quartet that unfolds with color, emotion, and an unmistakable edge.

Amber offers a left-of-center sound. Darker, softer, fuller—the violins, viola, and cello were tuned down a fourth to accentuate their unique characteristics. Amber’s dry studio sound lays the foundations for modern scoring techniques, but dive a little deeper and you’ll discover a compelling string quartet that gives your music an unconventional and vibrant quality.

Amber

I had the chance to create a sounddesign heavy demo composition for Orchestral Tools Phoenix Orchestra, a beautiful collection of authentic chinese instruments.
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Intro piece for Orchestral Tools Creative Soundpack for SINE:

Dagu
Chinese theatre drums
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Colossal Chinese drums bursting with drama and motion, combined with specially processed ensembles.

A selection of huge ornamental drums played and recorded in a monumental theater—a percussive great wall of sound. Plus a selection of processed ensembles, with the massive drums tweaked to fit into diverse mixes.

Dagu offers rich and authentic Chinese drums, but it's also flexible enough to add depth, power, and character to any rhythmic tour-de-force. With a unique organic low end, this is the rumble of the underground.

Dagu

Intro piece for Orchestral Tools Creative Soundpack for SINE:

Ore
Tuned metals
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Music by Frederik Theyssen
Mixed by Markus Ehret

A diverse collection of percussive metal instruments with an inspiring array of evocative processed sounds.

Tongue drum, caisa, gongs, kalimba, and bells—played with a variety of techniques and recorded with the utmost precision.

Ore offers an idiosyncratic, organic sound that belies its metallic origins. From resonant percussive sounds to iridescent pads, Ore is perfect for ambient, avant garde, electronica, or anything else.

Frederik Theyssen

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