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Callback

Improvise a duet with one of Karel's own recordings — he plays a phrase, then it's your turn, and every key you answer on is voiced by grains of his own piano sound.

KAREL — the callYOUR TURNA-7S-5D-3F+0G+2H+5J+7K+9

Loads a real recording, then hands you a keyboard made of his sound.

Both his call and the grains under your keys come from this take.

Timbre grain

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Each grain is a different attack sampled from his recording — the corpus your instrument is built from.

Routed through the shared ear-safety master bus.

Now

Waiting to begin

A loose 8-beat clock: 4 beats of his phrase, 4 beats for you, then he advances to the next phrase.

The dream lab — Karel Barnoski