Aphex Twin: New Album and Free Samplebrain App

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Aphex Twin has announced the upcoming reissue of their 1994 album Selected Ambient Works Volume II! Scheduled for October, the new extended edition will feature more songs than previous editions of this ambient music milestone. This is the perfect opportunity to revisit Aphex Twin’s free sample manipulation app Samplebrain, developed in partnership with then Try This. It’s free, open source, and will keep you busy for the rest of the week!

Aphex Twin will reissue the legendary album

This was announced by Warp Records and Aphex Twin Selected expanded edition Ambient Works volume II will be released in October this year. This limited edition of one of Aphex Twin’s most popular albums will be available in various formats, including: CD, cassette, vinylAND luxury box setAND digital download. The album is now available for pre-order at Warp Records. Estimated release date is October 4, 2024.

To make your mouth melt, Aphex Twin also created a track #19 (“Stone In Focus”) available on streaming services for the first time this week. Since this 10-minute masterpiece did not appear on the album’s CDs, it was also not included on previous streaming versions. However, it will be presented in the extended edition of Selected Ambient Works Volume II.

Samplebrain: A free sample mashing app by Aphex Twin

(Original post by Robin Molten, September 26, 2022) The idea is that you have a target sample that you want to play with. Samplebrain chops it up and tries to match it with blocks of other samples stored in its “brain”. So it is something related to the interpretation of one sound through a network of similarities.

As development progressed throughout 2015 and 2016, more and more parameters were added to the point that it is mostly a fest of glitches and chaotic noise. Although it depends on your proficiency in selecting samples and capturing the effect of things.

Dave explains this idea on his website thenTryThis.org:

Below is a schematic sketch from when we were planning how this should work, showing portions of the waveforms being matched to the target on the right. We planned to do more visualizations like this, but as we focused on the real-time aspects, listening became the key to understanding how it worked.

Fortunately, there is a demo session you can download (separately) that at least confirms that the noise-laden choke of the samples you’re hearing is correct and you’re not doing it wrong with your own samples.

Samplebrain is a fascinating way to generate interesting results from samples you already have. It’s eco-friendly and creative to the point of becoming an obsession. It’s available for macOS, Linux, and Windows and you should probably try it out.

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