City Sleep, by Tobias von Hofsten

City Sleep

by Tobias von Hofsten

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For this project I was given the assignment to create a 'deep sleep' track for the newly started label teenage engineering records. The inspiration for my track 'City Sleep' was New York City, and especially all its night time sounds. I imagined myself doing a field recording on top of a Manhattan skyscraper (which I eventually did!), and then wanted to add that to the track. In the end I decided to just go with the pure analog sounds of the pocket operator modular 400 and a beta version of the modular 170, mixed with the digital OP-1 and OP-Z, all processed through external effects, still keeping it simple. Everything was recorded in real-time in Ableton Live, with minimal post processing.

The release features a 4 minute version, published on Spotify, as well as the full 8:15 minute live take, exclusively available here on Bandcamp. Hope you will like the track and hope that you can experience your own city sleep. Enjoy!

/Tobias

Recorded by Tobias von Hofsten @ teenage engineering 2019.
Mastered by Johannes Ahlberg @ Saintpid Mastering 2019.
Original Spotify release @ teenage engineering records 2019.
open.spotify.com/playlist/34uS4peW69JTL388yvoYGk?si=eLyQzZQMTTapyeroBgoEOw

Equipment used:

Instruments:
teenage engineering OP-1
teenage engineering OP-Z
teenage engineering pocket operator modular 400
teenage engineering pocket operator modular 170

Mixer:
PLAYdifferently MODEL 1

Outboard effects:
Eventide Space
Jomox Moonwind
Pioneer RMX-1000
TC Electronic Finalizer 96K

Soundcard:
iConnectAUDIO4+

Workstation:
Ableton Live 10

Monitors:
Genelec 8341A

Computer:
Apple Mac Mini

Plugins:
FabFilter Pro-R
FabFilter Pro-Q 2
Klevgr Brusfri
Izotope RX 5 De-click

credits

released December 19, 2019

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Tobias von Hofsten Stockholm, Sweden

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defender of silence, communicating love through machine

discography

I Love My 808

May 2000
Swinger

Jan 2001
Burner

Jan 2002
The Cry

Apr 2004

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