Byzantine Time Machine - Science Experiments

Here is an experiment where a different sounds made on a Persian Tombak are used to open gates on several different electronic synth tracks in Ableton.

This is an extension of the producer trick used to fatten a kick drum by using the kick signal to open a gate on a track that contains a continuous low sine wave, so that whenever the kick plays, a low sine plays at the same time.

I took this concept a few steps further by using four different sounds on the tombak to trigger four different synth tracks. Instead of the synth tracks having static, unchanging sounds on them, I programed melodies, octave shifts and chord changes on all the tracks except the low tone, which did have a continuous sine wave in the root key. The tombak sounds were: low, edge, muted snap, and scratch.

For a full description of how this works see our wordpress blog: https://byzantinetimemachine.wordpress.com/2017/01/14/persian-tombak-meets-technology/#more-599