One | Colors | Anatol Locker

One | Colors

by Anatol Locker

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LWFZ This release has a very pleasing hearing experience. The nearly endless looping of distant melodies with small variations on a granular level creates a place where thoughts aren’t meant to stay. Favorite track: 170 | Daffodil.

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1.	168 \| Mink 36:08
2.	125 \| Basque 08:49	buy track
3.	175 \| Jean 15:13	buy track
4.	170 \| Daffodil 05:56	buy track
5.	144 \| Mocha 15:16	buy track
6.	30 \| Carmine 06:13

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In 2014, I experimented with a new music software to extract some pad sounds from loops I'd made. They were meant to set the base for a future piece. At first glace, the results were promising, so I saved the settings for future use.

After listening to the new material, I fell in love with the results. Somehow, the pad was good enough to stand as a piece of its own. Less, as so ever offen, is more: The new loops became finished pieces instead of building blocks for future use.

Today, whenever I generate a promising tonal loop, I throw it in the system, using more or less the same settings from 2014. Then I let the software do its thing, record half an hour and the listen to the track afterwards. Quite often the result disappoints, occasionally something sounds decent.

Sure, there’s not much happening here. If you visualize the waveform, you’ll see a tonal loop, edges washed off by granular synthesis, plus a bit of reverb washes. But once you zoom in, there are plenty of tiny variations, glitches, overdubs, which, in my opinion, make the pieces worthwhile to keep listening to. It is the interplay between the repeating melody and the changing timbre that works – at least for my taste.

I use these pieces for focused work, meditation, or as an aural tapestry, even in noisy environments. It‘s not that I actively listen to the pieces, they just set a background for things to evolve.

They are meant to be heard with headphones at a low or medium volume, but if you feel like it, crank 'em up!

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released May 9, 2021

Recorded and mastered at A Squared Studio.

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Anatol Locker Munich, Germany

Anatol Locker explores sonic territories, one heartbeat at a time.

He also plays in Lucid Grain, MOC, and Ambiosonics.

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