In a two part documentary from The Creators Project, electronic musician Ernest Greene (Washed Out) explores the instruments behind the smorgasbord of sounds on his new album Paracosm. In this second part Greene takes us on a tour of his home studio, showing off his collection of keyboards and guitars, noting how, with just MIDI keyboard plugins and a computer, a whole world of instruments can be opened up, giving people the capacity to have "an orchestra at your fingertips."From here he journeys to Tree Sound Studios in Atlanta, what Greene refers to as an "old school, big-money kind of recording studio." A studio that's been around long enough to see the ebbs and flows of recording trends come and go and come back again. While there he gets to play a Mellotron, an old electronic keyboard which works using magnetic tapes, along with enjoying the sounds of the Hammond B3 organ.You can check out part one of the documentary below, where Greene ventured to The Audities Foundation in Canada to play rare analogue electronic instruments like the Novachord and ondes Martenot.
'Paracosm' is due out 13th August on Sub Pop Records in the US and Weird World in the UK