Anima

The sounds we think have no pitch are the ones that contain every pitch. Rain, traffic, keys jingling, a coffee grinder running—broadband texture with no discernible tone. But hidden inside is every note on the keyboard. Anima uses resonant filters to extract pitched, playable instruments from recordings you'd never expect to sing.

Drop in a field recording from your morning walk. Play a chord. Listen. The transients in the source—the drips, the footsteps, the unpredictable bursts of noise—trigger resonances that swell and shimmer in ways you couldn't have designed. Each voice plays at a different speed. They cycle in and out of phase. You end up with sounds so delicious you just want to lean in and keep listening.

I built Anima because I wanted to embed my life into my music. One of my presets is a recording of my kitchen—my fiancée moving around in the background, the clatter of mugs and glasses. Now she's baked into the sound. Every time a resonance rings, I know what that texture means. This is the instrument for people who believe found sound adds magic that samples and synthesizers can't touch.