FRAGILE: Industrial Drums

FRAGILE is an eight-track drum and texture machine for what is not a drum kit: sheet metal struck and bowed, oil drums, a spring, a motor, a radio between stations and a sample of your own. Nothing is recorded except the sample: every hit is computed as it sounds, and no two are alike. THE EIGHT TRACKS • BOMBO: the low hit. From dry and short to one that drags a hum. • CAJA: the middle hit. Skins, noise, a blowtorch. • CHAPA: thin metal, struck or bowed. • BIDÓN: big hollow metal; it can also be dragged across the floor. • MUELLE: a reverb spring that takes a hit. • MOTOR: a machine that spins while the note is held. • RADIO: shortwave. Stations, interference and code. • MUESTRA: a sound of your own, recorded or opened from a file. Each track has several sounds, and each one is a different object, not the same thing pitched up. TONE, DECAY and MATERIAL change it. DAÑO, ESPACIO AND…