Sines, by Scentient Pencils

Sines

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1.	Sine I: Industrial Outskirts At Night 05:27	buy track
2.	Sine II: City at Dawn 05:44	buy track
3.	Interlude Without A Sine 02:25	buy track
4.	Sine III: Outside The City Walls, At Dusk 22:56	buy track
5.	Sine IV: Our Forests Are Gone And Barren Mountains Face The Moonlight 06:21	buy track
6.	(03:08 AM) Sines Are Gone 03:03	buy track

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Can test lab equipment be used for music? Of course it can! This is how electronic music came to be in the first place. This album is centered around an audio signal generator (the Tronson TAG-101) that can emit both sine & saw waves and has one big knob and a vertical row of hard-to-press buttons for frequency adjustments. As the album's name implies, only sine waves were used, since an overall warm tone was desired (although a bit of intentional low-end distortion is used for the first two tracks, caused by small voltage overloads).

Signal coming from the test equipment was passed over to a series of guitar pedals & effects, while all tracks were mostly recorded live (using a looper pedal). This sonic experiment adds a few instruments to the mix: a digital piano, one melody harp and a kaval. Their sound was either sampled and morphed or used as is (with a touch of reverb and delays). Or both, in some cases.

Beside these, the Bastl Kastle mini-modular analog synth can be heard on "Sine III", for a touch of atmosphere. All field recordings were made in-doors.

I hope you will find this experiment to be quite enjoyable and, maybe, an interesting sleep aid.

(Cover photo by Dragoș Iorgulescu)

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released April 29, 2020

All instruments, arrangements & mixing by Dragoș Iorgulescu

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Scentient Pencils Bucharest, Romania

The scent of sentient pencils gone mad. A musical project featuring bass guitars, keys, sampling, tape loops & soundscapes

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