Frozen Replicant = 114 yr old piano sampled then played via granular synthesis

Published on Jul 10, 2014 A Box In The Sea

"My wife and I were lucky to find this 114 year old Canadian made Bell piano in excellent condition. I played several phrases in different octaves and recorded them. I sampled those phrases into the Octatrack for editing. I pulled together my favorite and saved it for Granite (granular synthesizer) running on my laptop. The percussive elements were created by hitting the strings of the piano with a heavy fork, recording, then processing those with a convolution reverb. I'm using Push to play the percussive parts via Granite. The top row of the BRC2000 is controlling all the parameters of granite. I have the aftertouch of push controlling the release times. So a quick hit delivers a percussive sound and hit and hold allows all the modulated granular sounds to come through. Thanks for watching and feel free to ask any questions!"