Overworld is bringing immersive audio to Splice.
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There’s no doubt that virtual reality could be the future of music. We’re seeing that now more than ever. But did you know that sound itself has its own virtual worlds to explore? The Splice Explores team collaborated with composer, producer, and sound designer, Jonathan Rowden to go where few sample packs have gone before: into the pioneering, bleeding edge of spatial audio.
Encompassing a small myriad of formats, spatial audio is best known for its 3-dimensional realism, which is essential to virtual experiences by using ambisonics (360-degree immersive sound fields) and binaural audio (a simulation of your own head in those fields). But what would it look like to make music in the virtual realm for the everyday?
We’ve taken the idea of virtual worlds as the impetus for creative action. Using mostly modular synthesis and field recordings, we’ve curated a library of rich, organic spatial environments, one-shots, loops, and beats that will inspire you to explore immersive sound-making for yourself. The natural field recordings were captured by an MH Acoustics Eigenmike em32 ambisonics microphone and decoded to 16-channel ambisonics, included in this pack.
“Music will be the medicine of the future” said the American clairvoyant Edgar Cayce.
Splice, beside Overworld and featuring renowned sonic healer Divasonic, have teamed up to bring this highly musical offering to the Splice community. The pack comprises a wide range of soundscapes performed by Divasonic, featuring acoustic instruments along with a variety of tones, textures and frequencies found in the sound healing genre. In the spirit of Field and Foley, Overworld brings drones, analog synth tones, binaural environments and experimental atmospheres to round out the collection. With spatially rendered environments, Sonic Healing is designed for Splice users to take a breath - to allow you to create something that transcends the need for hard lined structure and rhythm and be present in your moment.
This pack features samples specifically tuned to 432 Hz, as opposed to the traditional 440 Hz used in most Western music. 432 Hz is an equal tempered reference tuning often used in sound meditations. Some believe 432 Hz tuned music can decrease heart rate and is easier to listen to.
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Human Nature, a collection of human sound by Field and Foley, presents Viral Voiceovers – an inclusive pack of VO’s based on viral social media content and pop-culture references. A sonic spin-off of GIFs, these quick call-outs are perfect for dropping into content, from sarcastic DM’s to friends, to viral videos and TikTok remixes. Presented as an inclusive bundle featuring LatinX male and female, Black male, and White male and female actors. This pack is part of a continued SFX collaboration with Overworld Studio in Los Angeles, CA.
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Splice sound designer Jonathan Rowden (Overworld Studio, California) presents Human Nature, a pack capturing humans in various states and spaces, with the specific goal of providing inspiration for virtual scenes for film, tv or gaming environments. Silent room ambiences captured in stereo, outdoor public spaces, emotional crowds, party sounds and dining tables filled with human activity, and of course an assortment of diverse (Black male, Caucasian male, Latina female) voice-overs provide the backdrop for this pack. Listen to the demo for a brief soundscape that depicts walking through a quiet street, into a crowded line outside a club, and then back to catch a rideshare on the other side.
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Splice sound designer Jonathan Rowden (Overworld Studio, California) presents volume one of a 90's cartoon-inspired pack of sound effects and musical cues, perfect for any animated commercial purposes. Whether cartoon tropes such as slips, falls, bangs, boings, booms, wiggles and wobbles, or more boutique recordings such as motorcycles made with human faces, this Splice Cartoon Sound FX pack is made from high quality foley and synthesized sounds, carefully processed to give that new-retro flavor. Musical cues were produced using cheeseball 90's fm synths and video game chips to reflect what a budget cartoon on Saturday morning might have felt like.
In ASMR Essentials, Splice teams up with Overworld Studios and Armenian folklorist, songwriter, performance and ECM artist Areni Agbabian. Areni, known for her work on highly technical vocal compositions of Tigran Hamasyan, took time to explain why her take on essential ASMR vocalizations and instrument/sound effects is personally relevant as a process-oriented artist: A snapshot into a portion of her experience, “I wanted to deliver ASMR sounds using experimental vocalizations of sacred poetry from the Armenian church, approaching the words as opportunities for sonic exploration. Additionally, ancestral percussion instruments were hugely influential to me in my childhood, during my early music education." And the resulting pack is as mysterious as it is enticing to the ears - a sonic potion of sounds from plastic bags and breath, singing bowls filled with rice, and haunting, tempo-less melodies reverberating in binaural beauty, through the ears of a Nuemann KU-100 "head microphone". We hope you enjoy this exploration of sound, spoken word, the soft flesh, and various unique instruments. https://www.areniagbabian.com