Tape transports, cassette mechanics, tools and metal, fractured into two granular layers.

Broken Artifacts is the second volume of the Found Sounds series, and it trades the organic world for the mechanical one. Where Vol. 01 recorded stones and branches, this one records the machines that used to move tape.

The sources are mechanisms rather than material, and the list runs long: tape machine and reel-to-reel transports, cassette recorder mechanics, DAT drives, workbench and hand tools, kitchen utensils and a great deal of metal, among plenty more. Motors, latches, springs, spool brakes and the specific clack of a mechanism doing its job — or failing at it.

Every source appears three times:

Layer 1 — the original recording, untouched
Layer 2 — a granular transformation of that same sound
Layer 3 — a second, deeper granular transformation of the same source
Because all three layers share one recording, blending them moves you along a single line from object to abstraction. Nothing collides, because nothing is foreign to anything else. A reel-to-reel brake becomes a metallic drone that still has the brake inside it.

The samples sit evenly across the keyboard at original pitch, with no velocity layers — an instrument for texture and gesture rather than melody. One key gives you the mechanism; a held chord gives you the room it broke in.

124 presets · 3 layers per source · 3.99 GB

Found_Sounds_02_SLR_Granular

Found_Sounds_02_Carwash

Found_Sounds_02_Found_Mechanics

Found_Sounds_02_Old_Kitchen_Clock

Found_Sounds_02_Videorecorder_granular

Found_Sounds_02_Metal_Impacts

Found_Sounds_02_Fosballtable

Found_Sounds_02_Tape_Machine

Found_Sounds_02_Workbench

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