Amon Tobin - The Making of ISAM Sounds

join the amon tobin discord here: / discord A sneak peak of how Amon Tobin uses spectral morph to create some of the unique sounds you will hear on the new release, ISAM.
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[@melanieisdemented]

This is just too much. ISAM is one of the best records I have ever heard, and to be able to see how the sounds were created up close was more than anything I had ever hoped to find on youtube.

[@theorrymusic]

The keyboard looks like a mini trampoline for your fingers. A really really expensive trampoline for your fingers

[@ELEKTRODINOSAUR]

it feels soooooo good tho

[@Ichomancer]

Man, that is a gorgeous studio :O

[@jicudi]

Truly amazing and unique, Tobin. Never, ever stop.

[@grimeylad]

ISAM pushed a lot of boundaries that Amon Tobin never touched before, and the live show is as it is to visually represent this. There is no lack of quality, only innovation and originality.

[@skyhybrid]

the chair sounded brilliant.

[@nachoelmir98]

We witnessed magic.

[@RYNO2511]

that is so eerie but I love it, amazing production

[@SendyTheEndless]

Making crazy sounds is the easy part. It's making them fit together into a coherent (a) composition and (b) mix which is tricky. But then who would give away their trade secrets? :)

[@lonelykid7691]

Someone who is a curious learner that understands that there's other curious learners wanting to experiment with what you discovered. Then they might learn something and then exchange that in return.

[@joenisheefteensnor]

you and The Gaslamp Killer should work toghetter, crazy combo.

[@NMROSTA]

This is pure gold! :D Thanks for sharing. My inspiration is back!

[@MrBillsTunes]

Does anyone know what kind of microphone that is? I saw Robert Henke using the same one in his Granulator video, now I'm curious.

[@schizophonicsoundz]

tactile interface taken to new heights. Very cool.

[@ElPsychochillero]

i'd never get anything done with this thing :D looks like a lot of fun playing around with this

[@nopenoteven]

Is this album self-indulgent? Yes. Is it sonically filled to the brim with alien sounds? Totally. Does it break barriers in electronic music? Undoubtedly. Will it appeal to older amon fans and people just getting into his music? Not really. I think what tobin has done is make a phonetic experience which is mind bending and just mind boggling, but the scarcity of solid grooves and recognizable melodies makes it a hard one to love at first go. Freaking awesome if listened to carefully.

[@MonoGenerator]

The whole Album reminds me of Stockhausen stuff Kontakte. Amon is expermenting with sounds like Stockhausen was doing back than. Though Tobins sound are much more complicated and sophisticated. Modern Stockhausen or something. Great!

[@Lee57one]

Thanks for another great album, Amon. Loving every minute of it. Keep it up, man!

[@JamboXL]

Hope they release a Blu-Ray of the live ISAM performance for those of us who can't make it to the show! -3

[@nljdj]

The keyboard he is using is a Haken Audio Fingerboard. The large model he using is about $5,500 dollars with no CV options for synths or case. Id expect to spend anywhere in the $4000-$6500 dollar range for either the half or full size Hacken. Google Hacken Audio Fingerboard. Good luck ;)

[@ToysintheStatic]

Really cool. The chair is awesome

[@defstar65]

This guy is mad scientist.

[@TermoNuclearWar]

i work on abstract hip hop,you giving me inspiration

[@RYNO2511]

Yes it is but the fingerboard makes it a lot easier to play around and fight the right sounds, whereas if you were using a regular keyboard you would be limited to only a couple parameters and would have to work in unison with the software to achieve a specific sound

[@bunny.bunbob]

those monitors ( K+H O500C) are so damn expensive

[@lonelykid7691]

that mic is also expensive around $1400

[@1undread]

pioneer/ genius ,and makes farking good music :) happy

[@davidchouinard9268]

Hugh Le Caine was our next-door neighbour when i was a kid. Amon, trust me - if he saw this he'd be grinning from ear to ear.

[@GeoffBukk]

4 people were upsidedown when watching this and clicked the thumbs up

[@themelancholia]

This dude is one of Alon Mor's influences... Wow

[@DruneMusic]

Yes I think it's awesome their names are slightly alike too. Alon's music is powerful!

[@NRyan-ok1ky]

Alon Mor sucks

[@themelancholia]

@@NRyan-ok1ky😨I love him. I'm his biggest fan.

[@MonoGenerator]

Nice to see this! :)

[@plasmaforce11]

Dope album :P was listening to it today :D Well Done bro

[@D3IK34N]

Amazing !

[@mdandry]

anybody that clicks dislike on this video must hate life and creativity

[@DJordydj]

OMG now I understand how he ceates music

[@matteodossena3524]

The live experience has been superb entertainment. Thought was all synthetic coming to know thi

[@matteodossena3524]

This it’s jus amazing!!

[@szs88]

Thanks for sharing

[@senatorkenator]

@DunnazHungus Right, obviously some sort of midi controller. Looks like it has pressure and vibrato as well, like an Ondes Martenot. But I've never seen anything like it. What kind is it: brand, type, etc?

[@BasswobbleFattronix]

@senatorkenator Its called a midi controller the red and black are the keys quite very possibly pressure sensitive

[@MrBratkenSolov]

9 years. I feel old. Do you?

[@PabzGLRP]

2:29 - There go the contents of my bowels.

[@b4wd0DD]

I think ISAM sounds like the orchestra of the XXI century :D

[@gigakadeishvili9932]

i need this for reasons!

[@gordeevious]

It's Reason, not Reasons. How many times have I heard that. LOL I'm gonna go make a track on my Logics

[@gigakadeishvili9932]

I need this for multiple reasons......BETTER YOU BITTER FUCK? :D

[@gordeevious]

Giga Kadeishvili It seems I'm not the one who is bitter, my friend). Have a good day

[@horatiotrismegistus616]

I reason my needs!

[@gigakadeishvili9932]

I need my reasons!

[@ElBosquee]

Trippy

[@JamboXL]

@iluvmma UK. As far as I know there are no shows near me. I ain't travelling to SF lol. Need the show on Blu-ray!

[@MonoGenerator]

@gustavoturm It is in disputable that amon was influenced by musique concréte and acousmatic music for making this record. Take a listen on Telemusik or Mikrofonie and you will hear that these two artist have a similary aproach to sounds and how to manpulate them.

[@JimmyGr90]

@Earthworksaudio Cool, thanks for the info!

[@AVeryHeavyAgenda]

it's an Earth works microphone, kind of the 'standard' for field recordists

[@AVeryHeavyAgenda]

still waiting for the actual Spectral Morph part, didn't notice it myself and it's kind of one of my obsessions (spectral morphing)

[@BeufaBoy]

Sympa la moquette... ...

[@DiagramOfTruth]

3 people still mad that amon tobin isn't using samples any more disliked this

[@gustavoturm]

@1undread Pioneer on what? Recording samples from common objects is a common idea from XX century. Stockhausen made a concert for 4 helicopters and 4 violins.

[@EndlzWaltz]

@JamboXL im going in OCT :D to SF for his how .. lol I live in san diego and the LA show sold out so im going to sf to see ISAM .. no way i can miss that

[@shrkb1te]

@zonda01 im listening to broken soul jamboree by tipper at the moment - that for me is a new(ish) album you can listen to all the way through without skipping tracks .

[@ajmod255]

Really underwhelming, I thought he was moving planets.

[@MichelSchallenberg]

Nah, he stopped doing that because of copyright issues

[@8geartodown]

There are two people with God's hands: Tom Morello and Amon Tobin

[@Arivera778]

8geartodown I love you.

[@JacobPadlock]

1:20 sounds a LOT like the synth from Crunch Rhythm. Possibly the origin of it?

[@EndlzWaltz]

@JamboXL haha where you live man ? SF show still has tickets I believe. You should try to go :)

[@shrkb1te]

Anyone who misses Amon Tobin's earlier jazz styling's should check out Dusted Wax Kingdom records - particularly Mr moods, Jenova 7 and Esbe - and no i dont work for them i just like good music.

[@fishybishbash]

'Come on everybody, you all know the words...'

[@strangemarkings]

My necktie doesn't make even half of these sounds. I demand a refund

[@ImANaidemoc]

welcome to the lab

[@lackLUFSter]

Does anyone know what microphone that is? I believe it's an Earthworks...just trying to figure out which model!

[@wakeanblake2040]

Jade Cicada did you ever figure out what model Earthworks microphone it was?

[@shrkb1te]

@zonda01 Quite right mate , 6 or 7 great albums - loads of brilliant remixes and one not so good album , im still into him and i'll be waiting for the next album - heres some others im listening at the moment , astrobotnia ,abelcain and datsik.

[@axiomcrux]

Haken Continuum and Kyma are bad ass. Amon Tobin made a few cool tracks in the sound design heavy vein so far, but honestly his old stuff was better.. if he could find more of a middle ground between the old melodic jazz sensibility he was working with and the new sound design stuff I think it would ber more consistently better. There are a couple really great tracks on ISAM but as an album I feel like it doesn't totally hold together.

[@aperfectnoise]

holy s**t

[@StaffRecordPlayer]

@awepittance Ah okay, do you have any kind of model number in your head?

[@QuantikMusic]

@AxiomCrux This ^ You nailed it man.

[@TwoGuysWithPants]

2:51 - 2:55 sounds like a little blip from Bedtime Stories. whoa.

[@Jambax]

It's an Earthworks Mic. Incredibly expensive.

[@dylanmsterling4]

@Ccffect I thought he used camel audio alchemy?

[@lukereddington3666]

Symbolic Sound KYMA

[@themelancholia]

I want one.

[@hellomynameisjoenl]

I want that.

[@senatorkenator]

What is the red and black strip that he touches!?

[@b4wd0DD]

do someone know what software does he use to edit his recorded sounds ? thanks :)

[@jamie___steele]

wtf kind of midi is that

[@Tiffany_Turbo]

Haken Audio Continuum fingerboard

[@thegari8bit841]

Это безумно!!!!!

[@IAmBound]

0:48 where can I get a ribbon controller like that.

[@colindavis2113]

What in gods name is this red instrument called? I must know.

[@LexOrbit]

what is the name of that MIDI Fingerboard amon is using?

[@MonoGenerator]

One word: GRANULASRSYNTHESIS!

[@thecriticallyilldrinker6214]

Obviously three. Like, obviously...

[@thesimulacre]

5.23 skidoo!

[@ThemFunnyLookinGuys]

The mic looks to be an Earthworks QTC30

[@Sammagot]

hah, well said!

[@Sammagot]

@gustavoturm We all know what a helicopter sounds like and what a violin sounds like, do you know what ISAM sounds like?

[@shrkb1te]

@zonda01 fair enough mate if four tracks are enough for you , its nowhere near enough for me though , amon tobin didnt make a bad track for years - mind blowing album after mind blowing album , phat beats , huge bass grooves and his own brand of atmospherics , now this sad slide into self indulgence .as said before im really disappointed .

[@ethnicalbert]

What software tho?

[@JimmyGr90]

What's the mic he's using?

[@jicudi]

@awepittance Please elaborate. What you mentioned just SOUNDS interesting. lol

[@its2in0the1numbers1]

does anyone know what keyboard he's using

[@trvrbrdly]

Is he using Live?

[@Triames]

Hamburger Lady at 1:30

[@SiGhast]

2:29 Zerg

[@dreadrogg]

what microphone is that?

[@calypsomidwest]

what mic does he use?

[@shrkb1te]

@zonda01 - like you say journeyman's the best tune - not to sure of the titles of the others but the one that sounds like the first track on foley room that has some lyrics on is ok - the found sounds are great ,but wheres the grooves , certainly no easy muffin, slowly, sordid, two ton mantis etc, etc - this is an album made by someone who has lost his love for the beats..............sad

[@gustavoturm]

@Sammagot Electronic music with fairly alterated rythmic and timbres. Whenever some "experimental" electronic artist comes in, it's only that. The only difference i've seen until now was the Gantz Graf from Autechre.

[@Matara]

I think that he is a Cubase user. At least, he was...

[@PhillipeGrishin]

does anyone know what speakers he is using?

[@jfilbert]

+Phillipe Grishin Klein + Hummel O500C. K&H was bought by Neumann. I think the comparable current model is the Neumann KH 420.

[@PhillipeGrishin]

+jfilbert thanks dude

[@GeoAl09]

what the hell kind of mic is that?

[@Horibil]

this sounds fuckin similarly like in FL Granulizer