Polybeat

Polybeat is an avant-guarde artist signed to Supernova Records whose music has been featured on many documentaries and advertising campaigns including L'Oreal. We worked on the audio and video production for his latest study on sound manipulation where the whole of the composition is generated by a single source: The Hang, played by Shanks Putwain. Deconstructing Shanks Putwain is a study on frequency manipulation. All sounds in this work are generated by a single session of Shanks Putwain on the Hang. Definition of the Hang: The Hang is a musical instrument in the idiophone class created by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer in Bern, Switzerland. The Hang is constructed from two half-shells of deep drawn, nitrided steel sheet glued together at the rim leaving the inside hollow. The top side has a center ‘note’ hammered into it and seven or eight ‘tone fields’ hammered around the center. The bottom is a plain surface that has a rolled hole in the center with a tuned note that can be created when the rim is struck.