Spitfire Audio: Eric Whitacre Contrast choral library
Posted: Oct 17, 2023 2:36 am
A 2nd Spitfire Eric Whitacre choir library, this one focusing on dissonance and strangeness (not exclusively). There's EVO grid and the eDNA engine in there.
11 mics (including SATB), 3 mixes, 66gb, Sptifire Player. £299, pre-order £239.At the heart of the library are 245 experimental techniques performed by 19 members of the Eric Whitacre Singers (Soprano 5, Alto 5, Tenor 4, Bass 5) recorded with a comprehensive range of mic positions in the stunning acoustics of AIR Studios, home of countless blockbuster scores. Each technique, curated with the awe-inspiring expertise and precision of Eric Whitacre, is presented with two contrasting tones — ‘Light’ and ‘Dark’ — Light created with an open vowel shape, and Dark with a closed vowel shape. This seemingly subtle change creates a completely different tone and timbre. The techniques themselves — aptly named fragments, shards, divergences, murmuring, prisms — have been carefully curated to subtly (and sometimes dramatically) dance and move beneath your fingertips, moving at different intervals and through varying shifts in dynamic, tone, and pitch.