Data Cult Audio 0212 - ROTATOR

About: Rotator is a drone project based around combinations of delay, reverb, resonance and feedback. I've had a long-running fascination with taking simple sound sources - analog oscillators, tuned percussion, plucked strings - passing them through combinations of effects - filters, resonators, delays, reverb - then taking those altered sounds and mixing them back in with themselves. This feedback loop keeps the rhythmic, melodic and harmonic content of the input but adds its own musicality to the output. It continually builds on and modifies the original so the final result is something new and hopefully more than just the sum of its own parts. I don't have a clear set of musical influences for this - it's as much about my love of the saturated sounds of tape delays from Jamaican Dub originators like King Tubby as it is about the concepts behind Emptyset's location-based works or any of the more obvious drone, ambient and electronica references. None of these ideas or techniques are new - but I hope my interpretation and implementation of them brings something worthwhile. This piece was originally recorded live using a small modular rig and is based around the individual outputs of a single analogue oscillator. The recording has had some basic post-production but it's essentially presented as it was performed. - Justin Owen aka Rotator Links: https://rrrotatorrr.bandcamp.com https://soundcloud.com/rrrotatorrr