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Spitfire Audio Albion V Tundra
本帖最后由 muzili 于 16-10-27 14:56 编辑
Recorded At the Edge of Silence
Capturing the Scandinavian zeitgeist Spitfire Audio has sampled a 100 piece orchestra playing never-before-sampled instructions at the very edge of silence. Alongside orchestral content are bellows, percussion and a characterful warped synth section. Everything you need to take it down a degree or two!
Background
In what can only be described as a sonic odyssey, the Spitfire crew has travelled northern climes to research, discover and unearth the most naked, honest and glacial set of samples they have recorded to date. Returning back to London they set about recording an enormous orchestra - but not in a style steeped in the choral tradition, echoing angelic angels from above. The Spitfire Team sought instead to create a sonic tapestry that was of this Earth. As if it was seeping through the moss on the ground, smelling of Estonian forests, Scottish lochs, Norwegian fjords, and evoking the sense of isolation when stood on the permafrost and tundra of Iceland.
Partnering with long term collaborator, orchestrator and contemporary composer Ben Foskett Spitfire set about recording a full dynamic set of samples where the top level was set at mp (mezzo piano, or kind of medium quiet) right down and through to the quietest recordings they have ever dared record. Their chief engineer opened up the hall at Air Studios to maximise its amazing early reflections and to liquify the fibrous and finely textured instructions they gave the 100 strong band of extraordinary London players.
Icy Strings
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http://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/ranges/albion/albion-v-tundra/
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Recorded At the Edge of Silence
Capturing the Scandinavian zeitgeist Spitfire Audio has sampled a 100 piece orchestra playing never-before-sampled instructions at the very edge of silence. Alongside orchestral content are bellows, percussion and a characterful warped synth section. Everything you need to take it down a degree or two!
Background
In what can only be described as a sonic odyssey, the Spitfire crew has travelled northern climes to research, discover and unearth the most naked, honest and glacial set of samples they have recorded to date. Returning back to London they set about recording an enormous orchestra - but not in a style steeped in the choral tradition, echoing angelic angels from above. The Spitfire Team sought instead to create a sonic tapestry that was of this Earth. As if it was seeping through the moss on the ground, smelling of Estonian forests, Scottish lochs, Norwegian fjords, and evoking the sense of isolation when stood on the permafrost and tundra of Iceland.
Partnering with long term collaborator, orchestrator and contemporary composer Ben Foskett Spitfire set about recording a full dynamic set of samples where the top level was set at mp (mezzo piano, or kind of medium quiet) right down and through to the quietest recordings they have ever dared record. Their chief engineer opened up the hall at Air Studios to maximise its amazing early reflections and to liquify the fibrous and finely textured instructions they gave the 100 strong band of extraordinary London players.
Icy Strings
Spitfire took the bold decision of excluding violas from the orchestra and instead supporting a rich cello and bass offering of 12 & 6 players sat in the middle of the room with two massively enhanced violin sections of 20 and 18 players sat in 'Antiphon' (opposite sides of the room). The huge selection of articulations created ranged from pimped classics such as their ever popular flautando, but with mutes added, and sections playing poly-divisi so that even with a band of this size, every player can be heard.
Right through to unorthodox approaches; requesting that players attend the session with practise bows with NO rosin on the hair so traction was very limited, to actually BOWING the strings with the back of the bow. Jake Jackson's real challenge, with the roof fully elevated so that the signal contains as much early reflection as possible, was trying to get the musicians louder than the ambient room tone.
The Spitfire team recorded the strings in two (high & low) sections with (where possible) matching articulations. Highlights alongside these cascading longs articulations are flautando legatos, brushed shorts and some extraordinary loose pizzicatos where only the principals were in possession of the click track!
Whispering Chorusses Of Brass & Wind Spitfire has got four different bands (high winds, mid winds, mid brass, low brass) all booked with a choral mode in mind. Taking experience gained with their fantastically popular Trumpet Fields giveaway instrument, their instructions to all bands were to be naked, honest, and non-conservatoire, but also with very specific textural approaches that liven the hall to create a very natural mossy patina.
Whilst the entire "Tundra" orchestra is playing from quiet markings all the way down to 'oblivion', where the orchestral tones are slowly deafened by silence, the end result is a deeply dynamic and timbral set of expressive instruments that quite happily act as a stand alone orchestral tool-set, albeit of a quite unique quality.
更多产品资讯 & 演示（请自行查看）：
http://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/ranges/albion/albion-v-tundra/
*这是个新闻*
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