Sound and Playing Style of the Ripple Engine
Ben Osterhouse describes the ripples as a way to move between two notes in a single bow stroke, with the second note folding into the release of the first so the pair sounds like one gesture. Because the slurs were recorded together rather than stitched from separate notes, the transition keeps its nuance.
The samples are recorded as swells. At the start of a swell the second note can be very light, close to a ghost note, and as the sound grows the slur changes to keep the movement alive across dynamics.
