In Resonate, no sound stays familiar for long. Warped signals and effects transform magical reverberations into haunting textures. Strategically-placed mics transport strikes to new depths—inside resonant chambers, beneath instruments, and underwater.
Meanwhile, the instruments themselves never stop surprising. The barrel’s rumbles, rattles, and wails. The thundersheet’s razor-sharp crescendos, hollow gongs, and quivering cries. The timpani’s never-before-heard warbles, bells, and moans-from-the-deep. And the water tank, with its thin crashes, deep quakes, and organically pitch-shifting resonances. All recorded in the legendary cradle of Hollywood’s greatest film scores, AIR Lyndhurst Hall.
The maestro of resonance
First she reinvented how percussion is heard. Now she’s reinventing how percussion is performed. Resonate architect, Dame Evelyn Glennie, has devoted her life to a single mission: teaching the world to listen—not just with our ears, but with our whole bodies and our whole hearts. For her, that training begins with percussive music—a field that she’s single-handedly reinvented, pioneering solo percussion worldwide, in concert, and across more than 40 albums. Playing with shoes off to access the full resonance of each instrument, Dame Evelyn chases the physical sensation of sound wherever it leads: to surprising strikes, strange instrument pairings, and uncanny, undiscovered tones.
The results are second to none.
Dame Evelyn’s teaching, advocacy, and wild adventures in exploratory percussion have earned her 2 Grammys, a BAFTA nomination, an OBE, the Polar Music Prize, the Companion of Honour, and more than a hundred other international awards. And now, with Resonate, she’s bottling up the most wonderous innovations of inquisitive musicianship, and delivering them to composers everywhere.
The sounds [...] truly do resonate throughout the whole body and totally engulfs your very being! They are so unusual and present whereby there is no option but to listen to the whole resonance of each sound.
Dame Evelyn Glennie
What's Included
Instruments
Barrel
- Low Hits & Trines Kit
- Metals Kit
- Superball Kit
- Snare
- Hits
- Tam Tam Hits
- Superball
- Superball Long
- Trine
- Cymbal Hits
- Cymbal Superball
- Waterphone
- Cymbal - Menu (Bowed)
- Cymbal - Maelstrom (Bowed Metal with separated repetitions)
- Cymbal - Tempest (Bowed Metal with separated repetitions)
- Cymbal - Refract (Bowed Metal with separated repetitions)
- Cymbal - Element (Bowed Metal with separated repetitions)
- Cymbal - Sphere (Bowed Metal with separated repetitions)
- Cymbal - Voltaic (Bowed Metal with separated repetitions)
- Cymbal Bow - Menu (Bowed with wood of bow)
- Cymbal Bow - Spire
- Cymbal Bow - Sentinel
- Cymbal Bow - Beyond
Timpani
- Paddle Kit
- Barimbulum Kit
- Paddle Drum
- Barimbulum Hits
- Barimbulum Bow
- Cymbal Hits
- Ektar
- Reco Reco
- Tibetan Bell
- Cymbal Superball Flicks
- Cymbal Rolls
- Marimbula Pluck
- Marimbula Mallet
- Kalimba
Thundersheet
- Thunder Sheet Kit
- Hits A (Muted Hits)
- Hits B (Open Hits)
- Superball
- Bowed
Watertank
- Water Tank Kit
- Mallet
- Superball
- Hard Sticks
- Waterphone
- Big Bell
- Dips
Warp Feature
- Warp 1 — A resonant, low-resolution effects chain resulting in harmonically rich aliasing artefacts
- Warp 2 — A lush reverb chain with various time manipulation, dragging out each hit and blurring transients together
- Warp 3 — Granular processing of each hit, pulling & sequencing glimpses of sound for brief transient moments
- Warp 4 — A vintage mix, tracked to tape at multiple speeds, layered and re-recorded
- Warp 5 — A custom mix, saturated, rectified and endlessly self modulated
Stretch Feature
- Applies to longer held notes
- Allows you to adjust the tempo of the particular sample without altering the pitch
Mics & mixes
Mics
- Close — A selection of valve mics
- Tree — Decca tree of three mics placed above the conductor's podium
- Ambient — Placed at the back of the room, gives a great amount of the hall ambience
- Stereo Mid — A great mid-distance pickup
- Contact — 2 Contact microphones placed directly on each instrument's resonant chamber
- Boundary — 2 Boundary layer microphones placed underneath the instrument
- Water Tank — 2 microphones submerged in water tanks
Mixes
- Mix 1 — A balanced Jake Jackson mix
- Mix 2 — An exaggerated Hype mix
