Mr Sandbags

Edward Lear.
Ring Modulation.
No, I don’t know why either.

It’s been so long since I’ve made any music I’ve kind of forgotten how. I was just noodling about and thought I had a sound I liked so I bounced it out quite quickly.

This one is all made with Reaktor and Boscomac’s Air Piano ensemble, plus a heap of Microtonic Permut8, and a drizzling of…read more

A violin sample used as an impulse response for a convolution reverb to which various filtered noise is fed. Just playing with the technique.

Some old cylinder-days orchestral sounds resampled, chopped, and effected. Put me in mind of clowns.

No rhyme, no reason, just a colony of mournful machines piping their clangorous, grinding sonorisms at each other across an barren electronic landscape.

This will also be some of the source material that I will process later into something with more definite intent.

Caveat auditor: long…read more

A new piece for the Synthesis playlist.

This is an ambient piece made mostly from field recordings in the Soniccouture collections ‘Geosonics’ and ‘Giant Bass Tongue Drum’.

The final version, at last!

Tess Savage - composition, synth, strings, voice
Mr Sandbags - beats & reichatron samples

Deep in the night
I remember
Euphoria

(Savage 2012)

This is my first run through the 7th Goldberg variation. It’s been about a month since I started practicing it. This is the first time I “made it"—meaning, it’s a bit fumbling and pushes and pulls, but hey, I hit all the notes!

I’ve played piano for 10 years for fun and for composing; but…read more

It’s been so long since I’ve made any music I’ve kind of forgotten how. I was just noodling about and thought I had a sound I liked so I bounced it out quite quickly.

This one is all made with Reaktor and Boscomac’s Air Piano ensemble, plus a heap of Microtonic Permut8, and a drizzling of…read more

The product of yesterdays experiments with Metasynth.

I took a few seconds of a Debussy piano piece and imported them into Metasynths spectrum synth where I turned them into a groove which I then filtered in the Filter room.

I imported this into Live and layered on CamelSpace and Freezbee in…read more

An arrangement of chords, arpeggiated, and lightly drizzled with effects.

Made with the Boité Diabolique playing some piano and cello samples. I did a bit of hand editing in Live and then added some light compression, reverb, and limiting.

A piece of experimental whimsy. I took a nice piano loop from the Logic library and utterly destroyed it with The Finger. What’s interesting about this to me is that I was not playing the MIDI driving The Finger but using Elysium to do so. Here’s the pattern I used:

![Elysium layer](http…read more

It’s been so long since I’ve made any music I’ve kind of forgotten how. I was just noodling about and thought I had a sound I liked so I bounced it out quite quickly.

This one is all made with Reaktor and Boscomac’s Air Piano ensemble, plus a heap of Microtonic Permut8, and a drizzling of…read more

Edward Lear.
Ring Modulation.
No, I don’t know why either.

Edward Lear.
Ring Modulation.
No, I don’t know why either.

Edward Lear.
Ring Modulation.
No, I don’t know why either.