SOUND ON SOUND
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. British creative studio Song Athletics have collaborated with innovative pianist/composer Sarah Nicolls for Inside‑Out Piano, which is, quite literally, a deep dive into the instrument.
Created by celebrated pianist and composer, Sarah Nicolls, the latest release from Song Athletics captures a re-shaped Erard grand that has had its soundboard turned upright, exposing the strings and allowing them to be played by hand.
Described as a “study in sonic transmutation”, Alchemia blends a range of string, wind and vocal sounds with samples of modular synths and “esoteric sound objects”.
Song Athletics have collaborated with classically-trained percussionist turned producer, composer and ethnomusicologist Magnus Mehta to create a collection of Cuban-inspired drum sounds.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Friends is a Kontakt‑based sample library that provides a collection of fairly conventional piano, keyboard, guitar, bass and drum options.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Bones is a ‘super sample pack’ containing over 400 loops, 800+ one‑shot samples and more than 100 drum stems.
Song Athletics’ latest project has been developed in collaboration with BORO, a Montréal- based creative sound studio led by composer and sound artist Noah Cedar Sherrin.
Named Sad Piano, Song Athletics' new sample pack contains a selection of delicately played phrases that are said to be well suited to contemporary classical music.
Friends is the first sample library created entirely by Song Athletics, and brings together a comprehensive selection of commonly used instruments with the aim of creating a go-to ‘studio essentials’ sample library.
Song Athletics have introduced Ruiner, a versatile ‘sound destruction’ plug-in designed to give users a variety of creative controls to manipulate audio.
