Atrium is a new instrument
    where playful gestures meet dynamic systems.

new ways to compose

new ways to express

new ways to play

five voices of analogue synthesis, controlled and modulated polytimbrally. we’ve taken ideas from our decade of modular exploration, and rethought how we reach into polyphony.

each voice is shaped by its harmonic energy while three core timbre modes push into richer territory. from simple suboctave and noise waves, through frequency modulation, and landing in formant synthesis reimagined. all squeezed through a lowpass/gate combination, providing balance and occasionally emphasis.

no digital multi-effects here, just spectres in the machine. a novel configuration of three filters, two delays, and feedback. front and almost centre — this resonant body is meant to be played. sequenceable, modulatable, while feeding back not just sound, but shape for unfolding cybernetics.

and to modulate! everything mappable to everything else, tactile input extended on the fly, mapping as a performance in itself. sources are dynamically phased across voices, and stretched in relative duration. gestures captured into five recorders, extending play rather than overriding it, all twisted in time at your whim.

Atrium is deeply learnable, and for those moments of quick change, instantly recallable. extensible with usb and midi and cv input.

$1600 USD

    on sale october 31st @8am PDT

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Summoning to this plane on All Hallows’ Eve.

Join us in marking Atrium's ritual unveiling with a night of celebratory dance in Los Angeles, helmed by the incomparable Maral. Then experience your first touch along its contours the following day, November 1, during our open showroom hours. This offering reaches its apex with an afternoon of performances by revered members of the LEAVING RECORDS family. Declare your intentions at the RSVP links: Ritual Party and First Touch.

Until then (and for those unable to join in-person) the revelations continue here, on Atrium’s dedicated site. Further multimedia will continue to unfold, and these events will be live streamed here. For now, divine new sounds with a gentle ~touch~ of the pool.

We open this portal in humble anticipation of your first adventures with Atrium.