Esoteric Machines Vol. 2 - Soma ENNER

 This is a collection of loops made with the combination of human touch and electricity. The ENNER is a unique instrument that requires the player to use skin to complete circuits between contact microphones, attached objects, synth voices and electronic clicks. Over 90 of the most musical, strange and inspiring loops were selected from literal hours of recording direct to 1/4 tape. The loops range from lush and evocative to trashy and terrifying, but always inspiring.

PLEASE NOTE - Tempos are listed with each loop and are to be considered the closest related bpm,  and due to the nature of the instrument are not exact. We embrace this and we love it.

From Soma - "As an instrument, ENNER is a unique analog synthesizer with the key principle being that all signals that make sound pass through and are managed by your body. Your hands become the central part of the circuitry. Touching different contact pads with different parts of your fingers and palms with different amounts of pressure, letting signals pass through your body defines the mixing, volume, timbre, feedback and other parameters of synthesis. Human skin has much more complex electric properties than we think. Our skin provides not just resistance but also some capacitive properties and even nonlinear dependence of conductivity from current, its direction and time during which the current was applied. All of this affects the sound, making you the key part of the synthesis process.All pots of ENNER are metallic and also function as inputs or outputs. Touching a pot can change not only the parameters but also patch the audio signals."