Day 21: The best orchestrators combine instruments to create unexpected results, even new sounding instruments.
Native Flute & Ebows
So, what does a native American flute and an ebowed piano make?
Day 22: A Schimmel, a real tape delay unit… lets party!
It doesn’t sound like you think it would. With a single repeat feeding back from the tape delay units we made the Schimmel piano sound super vintage.
Day 23: Christian’s ongoing seasonal theme for capturing his Schimmel upright whilst abusing it ever so slightly.
Autumn Piano
Different objects interfering with the strings to try and get us away from that omnipresent felt upright sound.
Day 24: Air Studios… old piano from the highlands? Yes please!
Oxygen Piano*
Over 15 years ago, Christian sampled a felted piano for ‘Secret of the Moonacre’. In 2019, he tracked down the same piano, a Yamaha U3, and sampled this special Pianobook version at the hall in Air studios.
*Previously know as Air Piano
Day 25: A beautiful piano in an ambient room.
Family Grand
Sampled with a binaural mic and pair of Neumann 149s.
Day 26: The popular ‘Claustrophobic Piano’ put through some pedally loveliness.
The ‘COOL’ Piano
Christian took the Claustrophobic Piano and gave it a signal path that is ill advised and unexpected for a piano sample with the intention of breaking the signal up to enhance its sense of unexpected beauty.
Day 27: Treading the line between experimentation and outright piano abuse.
The Gaffer
Christian’s trusty Schimmel upright sampled with gaffer tape all over the strings.
Day 28:
Pitched Electric Celeste
The rarest electronic keyboard in the world put through a curious digital pitch-shifting effect.