Xperimenta Sounds Uses "The Water Below" by Stephen O'Connell to Promote Its New Free Sample Library MINIMA
Xperimenta Sounds recently released an amazing new free library, MINIMA, a collection of sampled sounds with ambient and curious textures. It was the culmination of an April fool’s joke that saw the company release a free “MinimaL” library with no sampled content, which some unlucky people who didn’t cotton on to the “minimal” hint fell for, downloading and installing the empty library. The very next day though saw the company release this incredibly diverse collection of warped and effected textures free for anyone to use, with Native Instruments Kontakt sampler. A decision that was greeted with much excitement in musical social forums, the MINIMA library has been downloaded by many musicians, helping to achieve the goal of democratisation of music for all musicians.
Stephen spent the very next day after the release developing a track that used only the sounds included in the free library, workshopping them into a complete three and a half minute track, leaning in to the ambient and textural nature of the library. Nearly all MINIMA samples can be heard in some capacity within the track, either as textural overlays or as lead parts.
“I dived in to the sounds, loading them up and playing around with them until I had sections and fragments I quite liked. Then it was a matter of laying those fragments out in the timeline, creating a skeleton of the track. I was never stumped with what to create, I felt incredibly inspired working with these samples in a way I haven’t always felt with even the more expensive libraries.”
After uploading the track to SoundCloud, Stephen reached out to Xperimenta Sounds to thank them for the library and to share the song with them. After responding with “This track is AMAZING!”, they asked if they could share the track on their store webpage, to help others hear what is possible with the library. As of now, you will be find Stephen’s track representing the possibilities of the MINIMA as you download a copy for yourself. You can also find the track below, if you would like to listen, like, follow or share.