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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Full Digital Discography

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    releases

    Get all 12 Poltrock releases available on Bandcamp and save 50%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of AULUS II, Aulus I, Belfast (Space CCI), Bray Dunes, Young Plato (Original Soundtrack), VACUUM, Wild Gene, Stay/Leave, and 4 more. , and , .

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  • 12" transparant Vinyl
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This 12" album comes with a download code with binaural versions of 6 tracks including 2 live tracks.

    What is binaural sound?

    Sounds enter our left and right ears at different times. In addition, sound waves interact with the physical constitution of the listener and the surrounding space, creating listener-specific variations. The brain scrutinizes these miniscule interaural differences of time and strength in order to localize sound with immaculate precision.

    Binaural audio is based on stereo imaging techniques that replicate the way our ears perceive sound. Experimental audio engineers have tried for decades to reliably record and reproduce the sounds we hear, up to placing two microphones in ear-like cavities on either side of a stand or dummy head. The effect is best experienced over headphones, with a clear distinction between left and right. An orchestral recording of a binaural microphone placed between the musicians can fool the brain into believing it's hearing the sounds from within the orchestra.

    It’s a different - and more complicated - story with music already recorded and mixed in stereo. In this case, the music must first be translated into a surround mix - employing multiple speakers to create a 360-degree field around the listener - or a dedicated binaural mix where the sound engineer places the sound in a binaural 360° sphere using state of the art digital technology.

    For the binaural versions of our music, we used different techniques. Some tracks were (re)mixed on a 5.1 surround speaker system, and afterwards converted through software to a binaural stereo mixdown. Other tracks were directly mixed on headphones using software that supports binaural placement. 

    As all binaural mixes, your downloadable tracks have the same digital format as a regular stereo mix (in this case 24bit 44.1kHz wav). However, some of our choices won’t translate well on speakers and should be enjoyed by a high quality pair of headphones. 

    We used different DAW’s and software plugins including Pro Tools, Logic X, SPAT Revolution, DearVR and Soundmorph Dust.

    We hope you will enjoy your binaural mixes as much as we enjoyed experimenting.

    Includes unlimited streaming of VACUUM via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.     ... more

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  • The Complete Poltrock Vinyl Box Set (2018-2021)
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This Vinyl Box Set includes:

    - The brand new'VACUUM' by Poltrock & de Roover (12" LP on transparant vinyl)
    - 'Mutes' (12" LP on White Vinyl)
    - 'Moods' (12" LP on Marbled White Vinyl)
    - 'Machines' (12" LP on Transparant Vinyl)
    - 'Missing Wires' (12" 45 Rpm EP - The Record Store Day rework of the Soulwax classic on Splattered Vinyl)
    - 'Colossus' (7" limited edition rework of Triggerfinger's Colossus. Only available on vinyl!)
    - Digital download of my latest release VACUUM
    - Digital download codes for the binaural mixes of 'VACUUM'

    Includes unlimited streaming of VACUUM via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Tinder for Cellos 05:31
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Two-Thirds 04:27
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Straight Line Training 05:27
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44,2 km 06:35
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A Vegetable's tale 05:13
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A tartiner 06:20
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about

VACUUM - a sound choreography with music by Poltrock & de Roover

Nature abhors a vacuum. In its emptiness, space offers a stage to ever battling primal forces striving to fill in the void. What seems to be the natural state of things as they are, is often a fragile equilibrium bearing only brief harmony. A sound. A movement. A bulk of light. It all shifts in the blink of an eye and finds a place of its own. But how does one resonate in this world of chaos?

Pre-order vinyl: www.store.consouling.be/products/vacuum
Info & tickets: www.natureabhorsavacuum.be

Sharing a mutual fascination for sound, award winning composers David Poltrock (Poltrock, De Mens,...) & Adriaan de Roover (fka Oaktree) joined forces in the studio. Their alliance resulted in intriguing ambient soundscapes where all sense of time and space is lost. These compositions grew into the immersive performance ‘VACUUM’: a sound choreography merging dance, video and quadraphonic sound.

Conceived and directed by Aïda Gabriëls (OESTER) ‘VACUUM’ combines the music of Poltrock & de Roover, movements by dancer Pieter Desmet, light design by Jan Van Lindt and... more

This record is part of Vacuum, a sound choreography with quadraphonic sound, dance, video and light conceived by Aïda Gabriëls (direction), Pieter Desmet (dance), Wim Piqueur (video), Jan Van Lindt (lighting design), Yoran Cambier (sound), David Poltrock & Adriaan de Roover (music).

credits

released September 17, 2021

All tracks composed, recorded and mixed by David Poltrock & Adriaan de Roover
Mastered by Ward Neirynck
Artwork by Ward Heirwegh
Binaural mixes by Adriaan de Roover and Yoran Cambier

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Poltrock Brussels, Belgium

POLTROCK's first solo release was the 2018 instrumental trilogy ‘Mutes, Moods & Machines’ in which he displays his affection for intimate piano sounds, menacing drones and pulsating electronica.

In 2023 Poltrock returns with Aulus I & Aulus II. A cinematic diptych exploring the vast space between classical and electronic music. Between organic strings and pianos and experimental sound design. ... more

shows

  • May 14
    CC Diest
    Diest, Belgium
  • Jun 20
    4AD
    Diksmuide, Belgium

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