Stories
Shipwrecked
Sampling the Collection
Ableton x Powerhouse Music with Jonnine
To launch the Sounding the Collection sample pack from Powerhouse and Ableton, Jonnine, SOLLYY and Salamanda were commissioned to demonstrate how these sounds can be reimagined into music.
Jonnine Standish’s solo work dilates and deconstructs the damaged, sensual minimalism of her iconic, decade-plus collaboration alongside Nigel Yang in HTRK (2003–present). Skeletal rhythms slink and echo through dimly lit streets framed by fragments of guitar, bass, breath, keys, scrapes and haze, anchored by Standish’s narcotic nocturnal voice. The moods she conjures are lovelorn but oblique, between dream and coma, scenes glimpsed through fogged glass.
‘I was on the hunt for sounds that had a keepsake narrative to them or that felt like they had a soul being passed on from generation to generation.’
Interview
This is the first sample pack I've actually ever used to make my own music. I usually have a library of objects I've recorded myself and they all hold some kind of memory or nostalgia for me. I record a lot of keepsakes, like my grandfather's harmonica or my mother's pearl necklace, vintage cups and teapots, buttons, shells and old keyrings.
Object No. 94/15/1
Only recently I discovered that my great-grandfather and grand uncles were EastEnders from London who made clocks and watches. So I started there. I thought there was some metaphor there of the clock, not only keeping time but also keeping the memory of some of my distant relatives. They had to think about keeping time so much. It was their livelihood. All of this made me feel quite emotional and romantic and nostalgic for these objects. One of the reasons I was really excited for this project was because I saw you had all these 18th century and 19th century clocks and chimes.
