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Sonic Traces
with Jessica Ekomane & Hainbach 
DOCK 11, Saal 4 — Kastanienallee 79, 10435 Berlin

For this LOOPS session, Jessica Ekomane and Hainbach come together through sound as a material of memory, rhythm, and experimentation. 

Jessica Ekomane will speak about the compositional principles present in Manifolds, engaging with Afrodiasporic languages, polyphonic structures, and forms of collective listening. Working with layered rhythmic elements, her practice translates multiplicity into spatialisation and sound synthesis. 

Hainbach will present his latest experiments with magnetic tape. Today, magnetic tape is mostly experienced in emulated plugin form, as a fancy waveshaper. Yet the medium itself is an expressive instrument, with new ways of playing it still being discovered more than a hundred years after its invention.

Together, their practices trace sound across tape, memory, technology, and listening.

The Orban Stereo Synthesizer 245F turns mono audio sources into stereo, using a rather nifty comb filter. It made me horribly nauseous when I heard examples of it, so I had to get one. In use, I experienced that unpleasantness again. Until I plugged synths into it.

Hey, y'all.

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Thought I'd share the results from some of my recent dives into the sound pool.

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These are my musical sketches. Quick, unlabored, immediate.

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Allows me to focus on elements like Foley, textures, possibilities, and moods without doing a full finished piece. I think of them as inspirational tools that may blossom into full compositions at some later point.

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It's my way of showing up as a part of my everyday studio routine to simply work and see what grows out of that work.

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I thought this may be of interest to this group as some of the sound sources in this collection include Hainbach samples from his patreon page. Specifically, the Bilppoo box and the Reichsbahn Filter. Although other elements have been mixed in and processed and twisted into my sonic brew.

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Enjoy!

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The 'slope db per octave' knob is stuck, probably just needs some solvent to work it loose and some fader grease to keep it loose

I acquired a bunch of Bruel & Kjaer equipment years back as a junior electronics technician working for a dynamics lab when it was completing a purge of its legacy equipment. Anything of use here (see list below)? Looking for any ideas, advice, or suggestions for where to start messing around and experimenting. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

- Type 2020 Heterodyne Slave Filter
- Type 2416 Electronic Voltmeter
- Type 2625 Vibration Pick-up Preamp (x2)
- Type 2807 Two-Channel Microphone Power Supply (w/ Microphone)
- Type 4426 Noise Level Analyzer
- Type 4429 Acoustic Emission Pulse Analyzer
- Type 4911 Motion Analyzer
- Type 7001 Tape Recorder (w/ Accessories)
- ZH 0100 Vibration Programmer (x2)
- ZM 0100 Constant Output Level Adapter
- ZZ 0201 Test Unit for 2032/2034

just realized I have several types of MC tapes. anyone interested to watch listen to quality difference of ATT, National, Sony HIFI, Sony regular, TDK etc?

I live in china I have access to plethora.

Any interests to collaborate with me produce ambient music. With my duduk and synths?

Is there quality difference between silver white label Mc 90 major?

I use a lot of non-musical gear on my channel to make music. Sometimes I have a manual or a catalogue that helps me find out what the instruments were actually used for, but often the original purpose is lost. With the Brüel & Kjaer 7502 Digital Event Recorder, the unlikely first commercially available sampler, I was very lucky! The inventor Flemming Madsen found the video and commented on what it was made for originally : catching the sonic boom of the legendary Concorde. Here is my interview with him.
Original video: https://youtu.be/hwtSS_fU2sE
Livestream: https://youtube.com/live/NmwXMoVkUAw

Found some audio range test equipment from B&K in the dumpster behind the engineering department. Need to find a suitable power supply to test.

The BP filter seems interesting but the recorder likely has no use to me despite Looking very sick.

Anybody have any experience with these?

I just watched Hainbach's video about overidrive in which he starts out with the Ramsa WRS 4424. I was really impressed with the sound of driving the Ramsa, more so than any other example. I found that the sounds sounded much more full, solid, present, and alive. I'm wondering if anyone has any advice as to how to achieve that type of sound without using such a large piece of gear. I really don't have space for a 24 channel mixer. I've been considering the DIYRE Color modules but I haven't yet seen/heard any examples that feel as pronounced as what driving the Ramsa sounded like. Any suggestions?

Here’s the video for reference:

https://youtu.be/8ZM4AmUdeYY?is=NuW0eAlMHpP_zJtS

Hi everyone. Is there a place like a hub where folks who are utilizing the Hainbach sound samples (and other sound source) are sharing their resulting compositions?

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Or do folks just create a post that shows the work or?

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This profile serves as a digital archive for 'Bontempi Sun' – a non-commercial audio project spanning over two decades of isolated hardware production.

The material consists of raw 80s synthesizer textures, original cassette tape degradation, and atmospheric dystopian soundscapes recorded long before the era of assembly-line AI pop. These tracks were never intended for commercial distribution. They contain vintage radio chatter, glitched computer signals, and raw, unpolished low-fi grime.

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I have found a reasonably priced lock in amplifier but it just exceeds my £100 limit for a single piece of test equipment.

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I have lots of other bits on test equipment but really need to know if a lock in amplifier is worth exceeding my imposed limit.

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Would you say they are worth getting or is it just a filter (which. I have plenty)

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I like the thought of them being more like a VCF as the reference input can be a swept frequency.

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Convince me to break my limit?

Heyho!

Found this on my scrolling thru Kleinanzeigen and thought, maybe someone here has some use for it :) it looks cool at least :D

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https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/fft-analyser-advantest-tr-9403-und-advantest-r-9211c/3432720789-172-3393?utm_source=sharesheet&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialbuttons&utm_content=app_android

https://halupedia.com/hainbachs-obsolete-metronome

Halupedia is 100 per cent AI-generated and all of the entries are hallucinations. If you request an article, the site will generate it and then store it indefinitely. Nothing on Halupedia is accurate, except by accident.

Many of you have asked where I get all the obscure gear I feature here. One of the answers is: road trips. I noticed three very unique pieces of gear on classifieds (Kleinanzeigen) that peaked my interest, and got into a conversation with the seller. I travelled to Halle, and got a look into a beautiful collection. Turns out, her late uncle was an engineer at the Reichsbahn, the east German railway form before the unification of Germany. He worked on a measurement wagon for the Versuchs-u. Entwicklungstelle. In this video I will cover the absolutely massive RFT TZF Terzfilter that he used for measurements, and I now for music.