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Shapes in Time

Lullatone · Song · 2022

New Lullatone song. Our softest and slowest one in a while. We hope you like it.

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Checking local real estate listings for a new studio, but none have this design I was hoping for.

I thought this was a kind of funny, quick way to illustrate making beats in the house. Maybe a little nail on the head, but… You can get any of of the sounds for your own sampler here: https://lullatonesamplesets.bandcamp.com/ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #sp404 #bedroomproducer #musicproduction #audiogearz #sp404sx #beatmakers #beats #sampling #fingerdrummer #lofi #sample #cratedigger #beatmaker#beatmaking #fingerdrumming #bedroomproducers #pickupbeats #fingerdrumming #12pads #16pads #sp404freaks #spbeatmakers #spbeats #sp404sx https://www.instagram.com/p/CMQzKAuhu5F/?igshid=1713ddxh42f71

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一年前に「youは何しに日本へ」に出ました。We were on a kind of big TV show all across Japan last year, making beats out of weird stuff. I think I’m better at it now, but doing the thing with them under a quick quick deadline kind of sparked my first interest in cutting up videos like drum beats. 楽しかったです! Also I was really surprised to find out that quite a few TV shows here still shoot on mini DV tapes. People always talk about Japan loving fax machines, but I’m not sure too many people know about this mini DV video business. Crazy! (an SD card did mess up on me today though) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMPOBDnBFKs/?igshid=kqxr87a4mhty

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今週日曜日（3月1４日）の夜名古屋の覚王山のOFF THE RECORD @offtherecord_offreco でゆるいBGMライブをします。 (I’m going to play a show at Off the Record in Nagoya on March 14th) 作家のsatsukim @satsukim12 さんの”picnic”展示会のclosingパーティーです。 ＠kiso_nagoya も出店します。オープンサンドお楽しみです！ 僕は多分１９：００から２０：３０の間、色々なループとか作ります。 まだちょっと考え中。なんとかchillな楽しい日曜ぽいかんじで行こうと思います。 サザエさん病にならないように　：） -OFF THE RECORD- 名古屋市千種区覚王山通9-14ことひらビル1-A (地下鉄東山線覚王山駅1番出口より徒歩2分) BY THE WAY, I tried to shoot this video to be a nice loop (since I’ll make a lot of loops that night). It kinda worked, right!? 
I want to try to hone this trick a little more in the future but I’ll take it for now. .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #sp404 #bedroomproducer #musicproduction #gearwire #pedalsandeffects #guitarfx #pedalboards #effectspedals #jamuary #audiogearz #sp404sx #chaseblissaudio #blooperpedal #blooper#looper #looperpedal #guitarpedals #effectpedals #op-1 #op1 https://www.instagram.com/p/CMJ_3lmBB0Q/?igshid=1fw7l8453ocxf

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Lullatone - Domestic Drums SAMPLE PACK - OUT NOW! [Link in Bio under sample sets] or direct link here: https://lullatonesamplesets.bandcamp.com/album/domestic-drums-sample-set-ableton-and-kontakt-instruments-in-zip . . . . . . #sp404 #kontakt #ableton#bedroomproducer #musicproduction #gearwire #pedalsandeffects #guitarfx #pedalboards #effectspedals #jamuary #audiogearz #sp404sx https://www.instagram.com/p/CMCCIU_hi7H/?igshid=1rs20sgwsdo9v

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NEW SONG coming March 16, 2021. Kinda vibey. 3月16日に新しい曲を出します。 You can follow on the Spotify link in bio to get notified when it comes out (or, here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3h100hRlLZ7QDz8GRt5QsD ) artwork by longtime buddy and awesome dude, Brian Alfred @alfredstudio https://www.instagram.com/p/CL5VkH1B_H-/?igshid=6k78wk16i3tx

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Ah man, check out this cute ass candy shaped like a disposable camera. かわいいね. https://www.instagram.com/p/CLjkVYPh2Lx/?igshid=uvr0f8wxto88

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Here are some examples of the bell sound patches we made. この前作ったベルのサンプラーパッチの見本です。You can get all the sounds to use in your own songs here if you want: https://lullatonesamplesets.bandcamp.com/album/bells-sample-set-ableton-and-kontakt-instruments-in-zip . . . . . . Ring-a-ling-ding, y’all 🔔🔔🔔 #bells #handbells #abletonlive #ableton #nativeinstruments #kontakt #op1 #synth #synths #ambientsounds #ambient #sounddesigners #productiontips #piano #pianotones #audiogearz #musicforfilm #bedroomproducer #wowandflutter https://www.instagram.com/p/CLF5dW3BhHT/?igshid=1ihl3buo8wjjj

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Like a mix between watching someone play pong on an old iPod and wind chimes in a whirlpool, the “Perpetual Melody Machine” is a really simple prototype I came up with about 20 years ago while trying to think of a way to make a record that could be a never-ending loop but also have enough randomness to not become annoyingly repetitive. The pendulum-like swing of the mallet was kind of a nod to the minimalist music of Steve Reich and Kousugi Takehisa, with the way ideas are sometimes better than finished products like John Cage, and the somnolent spinning of Alexander Calder (I had to use a thesaurus to find a good word that started with s), mixed with the playful experimentation in the “Useless Machines” of Bruno Munari. We’ve used it in the background of live shows all over the world. More than just adding a subtle layer of haphazard notes, it is just kind of hypnotizing to look at. Anyway, I want to explore more of these kind of off-beat ways of making ambient music this year. Computers are great, but sometimes it is nice to see what is happening. I’m not sure if it is really music or art, but it is an idea. And despite what people who hustle too much will tell, ideas aren’t nothing. Here’s to making and thinking, Shawn .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #ambient #ambientsounds #ambientmusic #Ambient #tapeloops #bedroomproducer #experimentalmusic #lofi #dronemusic #looping #turntable #turntables https://www.instagram.com/p/CKkZKYNh4Hp/?igshid=jgzhxlznbmze

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I sampled a handmade steel tongue drum into the OP-1 to be able play lower octaves and arpeggios. I really like the simple, pure tones this drums makes and they translate incredibly well into the OP-1’s built in sampler. There is a hint of low-bit-rate high frequency artifacts that work well with the original subtle mid-range timbre of the drum. The drum is called a Sazanami drum @sazanami_drum It was made by hand in Wakayama, Japan. The creator, Hasegawa-san, sent it to us as a present because he liked our albums. But, I ended up loving the drum so much I bought an extra one. They are great have a really poetic tone. He is making really special things! さざなみドラムめっちゃ好きです。 Anyway, I’m not sure if this tiny experiment is a song or not, but I do like it as a little melody memo to maybe use somewhere one day. Thanks for checking it out! .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #jamuary #teenageengineering #op1andchill @teenageengineering @op1andchill⠀#op1 #ambientsounds #ambient #sounddesigners #productiontips #audiogearz #musicforfilm #bedroomproducer #ravdrum #steeltonguedrum #hankdrum #tankdrum #handpan https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ9vuogBvqE/?igshid=11wju8em267tk

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LINK IN BIO (sample sets): I made a sample set and instrument patches for Kontakt, Ableton and the OP-1 of our piano with every single note recorded in the voice memos app on an old iPhone. We could have recorded it with better microphones, but then it might might just sound like a lot of other piano plugins out there. There is something kind of charming about this voice memo tone. They feel like ideas ideas you are just sketching down. There are also bonus patches that sound like a micro-cassette and and a drippy droney tone too. It all has a really nice handmade lo-fi sound, perfect for adding character and charm to cold computer recordings. There are Ableton (.alp), Kontakt (.nki) and individual sample files of the notes (for other samplers). There is a longer video about it on our YouTube channel too. Hope they help you make something cool. best wishes from Japan, Shawn & Yoshimi. . . #abletonlive #ableton #nativeinstruments #kontakt #op1 #synth #synths #ambientsounds #ambient #sounddesigners #productiontips #piano #pianotones #audiogearz #musicforfilm #bedroomproducer #wowandflutter https://www.instagram.com/p/CITC2QXB6je/?igshid=13v9q0uj0fzeb

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ライブします！ １２月１８日at @stiffslack Venue w/ @house_of_tapes @nabatea_shinsuke @nekomachi_press and @tanukineiri DJ Crew 
Im going to play a concert in Nagoya on December 18th with a nice crew under the train tracks. (I’ve been practicing with using the SP-404 as a pedal for the guitar.) (at STIFF SLACK) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHxDYJsBr15/?igshid=hqw18e2qdiwr

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I’m working on a new sample set (kontakt, ableton and OP-1 patches) to release later this week and it is sounding really nice so far. I just wanted to share this first little test with it. We’ll put it here when it is done: https://lullatonesamplesets.bandcamp.com/ 新しいサンプルセット(コンタクト、エイブルトン、OP-１用)を作っています。できたら金曜日に出します。今のところめっちゃいいかなじですすんでいます。

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Lullatone - Houseplants While You are Away on Vacation

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(via https://open.spotify.com/album/0G7hXY1pGBG7ZbhciEhZyo?si=cfWjM79sR92DcdEN0lZCGw)

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LULLATONE - vitamin D

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My favorite part of yesterday’s video was finding out that “scary T. rex” sounds the same pronounced forwards as backwards. One good thing about doing these seemingly pointless experiments is learning new (seemingly pointless) stuff. But if you have to fill your head with pointless information anyway, experiments might be a more fun way to do it than the internet. Maybe... what the hell do I know? I might just be rationalizing an excuse to say silly things into a guitar pedal! 🦖 . . #guitarpedals #effectpedals #counttofive⠀#organelle #newpedal #looper #looperpedal #gearnerds #gearshots #gearphoria https://www.instagram.com/p/B7ZmylCBQQM/?igshid=1lnuf77wjw5yf