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DIVINE MACHINERY · NODE 重庆-07 · 1 USER CONNECTED
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THE HUMAN CONDITION

Blessing, pride, sorrow, memory, atonement, devotion. Machines named for being human, and built to sound like it.

UPDRAFT's screen
UPDRAFTHOVER CAR
the city's engines, overhead
A hover car's engines, flown through Chongqing in 2077, a city grown like a megastructure. Every place you fly, you see.
COMING SOON
BENEDICTION's screen
BENEDICTIONPLAYED WITH YOUR HANDS
a blessing given by hand
An effect you play with your hands through a camera. Pinch to play, and a fist holds it. Six effects and four punch-ins locked to your song's tempo.
COMING SOON
HUBRIS's screen
HUBRISPLATE REVERB
pride, and being watched
A plate reverb watched by an eye. Notes send rings across it; the tail swells its star; loud input tightens the pupil.
IN PROGRESS
HUMILITY's screen
HUMILITYGRANULAR PORTRAIT
sorrow, and what's left after
Six grains from a stereo buffer. A portrait flickers a column for each grain, and its tears follow the trail.
IN PROGRESS
CORRIDOR's screen
CORRIDORTAPE ECHO
memory, further away with every echo
A tape echo locked to your song, with wow, hiss and dropouts. Each frame down the corridor is an echo from further back.
IN PROGRESS
PENANCE's screen
PENANCEDRIVE · FOLD · SHIFT
atonement, struck out on drums
A saturator, clipper and wavefolder with a frequency shifter, made for drums. Loudness matched, clean below the crossover.
IN PROGRESS
VESPER's screen
VESPERPOLYSYNTH
devotion: an evening prayer in glass
Two morphing oscillators and a sub through a resonant filter, sixteen voices. A rose window lights each note you play.
IN PROGRESS
ORIGAMI's screen
ORIGAMIBRASS DRONE
a dream, folded out of paper
Huge held brass after the late-70s polysynths: three detuned saws that bloom slowly and scoop up into pitch. A paper unicorn turns in the light.
PROTOTYPE · OP-XY
WRAITH's screen
WRAITHREESE BASS
a voice that isn't quite there
A larger-than-life Reese bass for witch house and hyperpop: up to seven detuned saws drifting against each other, drawn beating as they beat.
PROTOTYPE · OP-XY
RIFT's screen
RIFTSTEREO REESE EFFECT
one thing splitting in two
Wraith's partner: drifting delayed copies split left and right above a low cut, with drive and grit, so the low end stays whole and the top tears wide.
PROTOTYPE · OP-XY
BITROT's screen
BITROTGLITCH SAMPLER
memory, rotting
A melodic sampler that breaks, bends and repeats your sample on the beat, like a circuit-bent buffer. A field of waveform cracks as it plays.
PROTOTYPE · OP-XY
LULLABY's screen
LULLABYNOTE PLAYER
a music box, winding down
A generative note player for the OP-XY, after Awake for norns. It is being rebuilt as a music box: struck tines, and a spring that slows as it winds down.
PROTOTYPE · OP-XY