Spitfire Audio Yair Elazar Glotman - Speculative Memories

Awe-Inspiring Atmospheres, Transformed Through Spatial Technology

Create instant suspense, tension and atmosphere with these cutting-edge cinematic textures - from the heart and mind of Berlin-based composer and experimental sound artist Yair Elazar Glotman.

From beautifully haunting, evolving drones with visceral undertones to ambient swells and earth-shattering atmospheres, this all-in-one toolkit of multi-layered electroacoustic textures have been created from a selection of extended techniques performed on double bass, vocals, guitar, as well as modular synths sounds, custom tape loops and more - developed into visceral abstract environments through sophisticated granular processing and layering techniques.

Travel to new sonic dimensions with the plugin's radically transformative processed signals - from tape FX to the cavernous spatial signal, created at the legendary MONOM Studio at Funkhaus, Berlin - while the in-built controls and effects offer even further opportunity for sonic exploration.

MONOM 4D Sound System

Housed within the legendary Funkhaus, Berlin, this new state of the art spatial sound studio and performance space, MONOM, offers a 4D Sound System - 48 omnidirectional speakers suspended throughout the venue, extending to nine powerful subs submerged beneath an acoustically transparent floor.

The perfect location to create our epic spatial signal, this treatment transforms how the sounds behave in space, adding dimension and depth to create dynamic shifting sonic landscapes that subvert the laws of perception.

This signal has been mapped across the mod wheel so users can fade and blend between the different emotional layers.

Dystopian Soundscapes

Speculative Memories is inspired by the rich sound design and experimental double bass playing in Glotman's most recent homonymous album, combining his classical training as a double bassist alongside his studies in electroacoustic composition to create textural and spatial works.

Subverting traditional methods of sound curation, Glotman called on specific creative voices to collaborate with:

"It was important for me to work with people I'm close to and create collaboratively, leading to very interesting instrumentation and orchestration. Bringing in a range of creative voices meant I had to lose control… it was a very freeing process."

This unique collection of instruments captures an evolving post-classical community, focusing more on experimental sources and playing with space.

From unique double bass techniques, vocal and guitar performances to modular synth sounds from the Buchla 200e, custom textural tape loops and sophisticated processing techniques - these expansive industrial, dystopian soundscapes are designed to inspire contemporary cinematic scoring, ambient music, and anyone looking to create deeply atmospheric textures.

Features

• Presented in Spitfire Audio's award-winning dedicated plugin
• Features experimental techniques created from the double bass, vocals and guitar, processed to create unique sounds, as well as modular synth textures (from the Buchla 200e), plus granular and tape machine processing
• Designed for contemporary cinematic scoring, ambient music, anyone looking to create interesting textures and atmospheres
• The radically transformative spatial signal allows you to fade every texture into a new dimension
• ~10GB
• NKS compatible

Patches

Vocals - Sara Fors

Unique processed vocal textures

• Close Mouth
• Formant Shift
• Granular Clouds
• Morse Clouds
• Slow Bends
• Slow Pulses
• Waves
• Whisper Tone
• Textural

Guitar - Mats Erlandsson

Bow drones and plucked octave swarms

• Bow Drones
• Octave Swarms

Modular Synthesizer

Processed sounds created from the Buchla 200.

• Acceleration
• Dynamics Voltage
• Resonance Bite
• Voltage Drops
• Eraserhead
• Distant and Broken
• Rolling Texture
• Mayhem Pad
• Warm Swell
• Distorted Waves
• Full Osc

Textures

Eerie synth textures created by feeding sounds through tape machines.

• Brass Resonance Trails
• Tape in Space
• Contrabass Distorted Gate
• Piano Granular Drops
• Tape Harmonics
• Contrabass 5th Waves
• Voice Memory
• Piano Tape Swarm
• WW Waves
• Tone Memory
• Dirty Organ
• Swells

Double Bass

Experimental double bass techniques, from distorted swells to harmonic stabs

• Distorted Swell
• Harmonics Organ
• Lost Harmonics
• Spiccato Mayhem
• Trill Tube Waves
• Harmonic Stabs
• Resonance Decay

Controls

• Expression - Adjust the level of the technique
• Dynamics - Move between a dry signal and a tape FX signal
• Re-amp - Move between the current signal set by the Dynamics fader and a spatial signal recorded at MONOM
• Random start - Move the sample start to a random point within the sample.
• Higher values increase the range of randomness.
• Useful for delving deeper into long samples or adding variation to repeated notes.
• Attack
• Release
• Reverb - Select alternative reverb types in the reverb selection box, choosing between a bespoke collection of 7 impulse responses, ranging from short studios and rooms to long, cavernous churches and halls
• Delay