SPITFIRE AUDIO Oliver Patrice Weder — The Pool Project

A toolkit of transportive textures

Breathe new life into your compositions with this versatile toolkit of unique timbres, created by contemporary composer, Oliver Patrice Weder. For his second sample library, the expert sound curator has recorded a wide variety of instruments and techniques in the remarkable setting of a reverberant pool house — surrounded and inspired by nature. The sounds range from contemplative solo and trio vocal chants and breathy woodwind swells to personalised piano sounds, delicate percussion and shimmering organic and electronic loops — carefully sculpted to blend together seamlessly and complete with a range of bespoke controls, effects and reverbs. Adding a much sought-after human quality and fragility to your music, these transcendental textures are suited to intimate film scores and contemporary classical or ambient tracks alike.

While Weder’s first sample library and record, OPW, was inspired by constant movement and travelling, The Pool Project is a tribute to peace and stillness. At the core of the library are male vocal swells, longs and vowel sounds performed by Madrid’s Club del Rio, which blend beautifully with woodwind duo Zopli2’s breathy alto flute and bass clarinet swells and visceral playing techniques, including circular breathing. This is accompanied by Weder’s very own personalised double felted and tape piano sounds, synthesiser loops from his Juno 6 fed through various pedal effects and electronic manipulations, and a unique selection of toys and percussion hits and loops, providing gentle rhythm and momentum, including the steel tongue drum, toy piano, recorder, and kaval (a Bulgarian flute). The specially curated controls, effects and IR reverbs invite you to tailor the sounds to your specific production needs within the plug-in, with the Distort setting taking the organic recordings to a completely new place.

The Pool Project

The Pool Project is made up of two complementary elements — the sample library, and Weder’s sophomore album. With a range of controls and effects, the sample library concept is an invitation for musicians and producers to reimagine, recreate or completely pull apart the sound palette of an artist to facilitate their own vision.

Oliver Patrice Weder

Contemporary composer, producer and artist Oliver Patrice Weder discovered his love of keyboards after hearing the sound of Ray Manzarek (The Doors), and spent his formative years playing classical and jazz piano in the rainy foothills of the Alps. After recording and touring across Europe with various bands, including psychedelic rock band Time for T, he studied at Valencia’s Berklee College of Music, where he established his passion for film music. As well as composing for the BBC, Oliver is the lead composer at pioneering British music technology company, Spitfire Audio.

His unique musicality has been heavily inspired and shaped by exploring different places and cultures, including Brazil, Africa and the USA, as well as his experiences making a home in various European countries. In 2018, Oliver relocated his studio to the canals of Amsterdam, and is now based just outside of Madrid, where he created The Pool Project. This sophomore album and sample library follows Oliver’s deeply personal debut album, OPW, released by SA Recordings in October 2019 and described by A Closer Listen as “a brisk and hopeful set that bounces from one idea to the next with a finesse unusual in debut releases".