New Outlines VI  For Native Instruments’ Kontakt Player

Outlines VI blends raw acoustic gestures with tape loops and modular-processed tonal experiments.

PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT

As an outline of a musical idea ready to be expanded and reshaped into something larger, each preset propelling outlines’ openly creative collection of tonal variations duly designed to be combined and explored is a result of Thephonoloop spending some serious time gathering suitable source material — think ACOUSTIC (119 sources), MODULAR (139 sources), SYNTH (67 sources), TAPE LOOP (65 sources), VARIOUS (six sources), and many more besides, focusing on texture, detail, and contrast, creating a wide range of acoustic and synthetic sounds that can interact and form unexpected combinations.

Creatively speaking, flutes, mallet instruments, strings, and other small acoustic sources were recorded up close to capture the subtle gestures of the instruments concerned. Thephonoloop took it slow in the process of doing so, taking time to uncover hidden gems and embrace happy accidents along the way, with air, creaks, field ambience, finger noise, and room ambience all treated as honorary guests rather than trespassers — the library would not have existed without them. These recordings were further blended with analogue and digital synthesis, modular experiments, and tape loops to form the palette of textures from which the sounds of outlines emerged.