Monandaeg

Mōnandæg plays your own recordings through a wave folder. Up to eight takes stand in a row, A to H. At any moment one or two of them are heard (PLAY), and one or two others are only listened to (FOLLOW): their loudness becomes voltage that pushes the fold — how hard it bends, and where the bends land. Every take has a gate of its own, wired into a small network; when one fires, the roles change hands. The piece keeps rearranging itself out of the sound itself. · A–H — eight takes. Tap the top of a cell to load a file, hold it to clear the take. REC→ chooses the take the microphone records into. · I · II · III — three fold stages in series, each an XY pad. · The net — how many takes, who plays, how they are read, when they swap. · FREEZE — one moment held as a chord. · BREAK — cuts and rewrites the files. · LOOP — one loop built from pieces of all of them. · TEXTURE — tape and disc: wow, flutter, hiss, skips, dropouts. · SEND — echo, room and sweep. · VOICE — the device reads a line of text aloud into a take of its own. · RADIO — internet radio as a source. · BASIC — one key: four takes, one heard, one listening, swapping every couple of seconds. · DRIFT — the pads and knobs move by themselves. iPhone and iPad, in landscape. Your recordings stay on the device.