Éclat: Resonance Edition

Welcome to Resonance Music Retreat! I'm very excited to be able to share an Éclat Crew sample-based music-making challenge with you today.

I like to collect random samples from around the internet, especially from Youtube. In honor of our ever-so-slightly-creepy mannequin friends to be found here in Röblingen Am See, I've gathered a couple of samples from one of my favourite Instagram channels, Powland.tv, for us to use today (also a couple of less-abrasive sounds for those in search of something a little more soothing today.

Download the sample pack from WeTransfer here!

Today's challenge! You have two hours to use AT LEAST TWO of the samples from the sample pack, plus any other sounds, synths, and effects that you'd like, to make a piece of music of ± 2 minutes long.

At the end of the two hours, submit your track to THIS GOOGLE DRIVE or ask Ivy for a USB key to drop your track onto. We'll reconvene in the lounge for a celebratory listening session to hear what everyone's made!

If you're not used to working with samples, check out some of the videos below for inspiration!

Chopping Samples in Ableton with Underbelly

Chopping Samples in Ableton with Underbelly

Chopping Samples with Ableton Simpler

Chopping Samples with Ableton Simpler

How To Create & Process A Kick Drum From Any Sound

How To Create & Process A Kick Drum From Any Sound

Novation // Start Making – House

Novation // Start Making – House

Creating a Kick Drum from Scratch (Logic Pro X)

Creating a Kick Drum from Scratch (Logic Pro X)

Advanced Sample Flipping with Andrew Huang

Advanced Sample Flipping with Andrew Huang

Creative ways of using Loops & Samples in your productions

Creative ways of using Loops & Samples in your productions

Logic: Chop and Reinvent Loops in the EXS 24

Logic: Chop and Reinvent Loops in the EXS 24

Ableton: Making Vocal Chops

Ableton: Making Vocal Chops

Ableton: Adjust Pitch in Simpler using Pitch Envelope

Ableton: Adjust Pitch in Simpler using Pitch Envelope

Drum Hacks from Maike Watson

Drum Hacks from Maike Watson

How to make a Vocal Chop track

How to make a Vocal Chop track

Ableton: Make your samples sustain in Sampler

Ableton: Make your samples sustain in Sampler

Bwana: Creative Ways of using Vocals

Bwana: Creative Ways of using Vocals

Novation // Start Making – Techno

Novation // Start Making – Techno

Bitwig: Creative Ways of Manipulating Audio

Bitwig: Creative Ways of Manipulating Audio

Ableton: Using Reslicing as a Creative Sampling Tool

Ableton: Using Reslicing as a Creative Sampling Tool

Bwana: Sampling from Youtube

Bwana: Sampling from Youtube

Logic: Sampling in Logic with “How to sample like Kanye West”

Logic: Sampling in Logic with “How to sample like Kanye West”

Ableton: 10 Tips To Help You Master Live’s Drum Rack

Ableton: 10 Tips To Help You Master Live’s Drum Rack