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…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…read more

Always on the threshold, always buzzing, get out of my head, get out get out

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

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…read more

This is from years ago, living in santa fe. I loved driving around in my little 1980s toyota corolla and listening to cassettes. I loved the way they sounded. So I took a piano song I was working on, recorded it to cassette, dragged mic…read more

Ghosts do not speak.

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…read more

I watched you move and I resented the freedom there It was like oh rub it in And all those handfuls of hair And bitten nails like the stupid words you never spare How full of pity but too pretty to feel anything anyway Untied to throw it…read more

This is a track I've been working on for quite a while so I am glad to finally have it out of my head. I have a kind of love/hate relationship with time and its humble functionary, the clock. Ticking, in particular, is something I am ambivalent…read more

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…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…read more

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

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