Aequora by Matt Robertson
This album began as an exploration of additive synthesis — shaping and sculpting music entirely from sine waves at different frequencies and intensities.
Rather than relying on existing software or plug-ins, none of which really behaved how I wanted, I generated and layered hundreds of sine waves by hand, carefully balancing their volumes and envelopes over time.
As the project evolved, I realised that this was going to be very complicated! And so eventually I did also use some more conventional techniques for additive synthesis.
The result is a collection of soundscapes that are calm, patient, and quietly alive.
I decided to combine all 7 tracks into one 'album track' mainly because this is the way I would like it to be experienced, and splitting the tracks up into sections just didn't seem to make sense to me.
I hope you enjoy the listening experience - I put it on to go to sleep :)
If you are after 96k files, get in touch....
Bandcamp doesn't allow for single file sizes over 1gb, and so the max fs I could do for a one track album was 48k
Thanks for listening, and I hope you find a little stillness here.
(Aequora - a calm sea)
