SOUND DESERVES
ATTENTION.
Toneveld is a place for people who care about sound, listening
and making music with intention.
Featured Machine
Moth
A tape machine
Four playheads moving
through the same
piece of tape.
Open Moth →
Four playheads moving
through the same
piece of tape.
What is Toneveld?
Toneveld is a field for sound culture.
We build and collect things that can become starting points — machines with character, sound sources, inspirational ideas, selections of important records, visual experiments and words to read.
Objects to explore.
Synthesizer
Toad
Harmonic drone synth
One oscillator and eight overtones slowly shifting against each other. And instead of oscillators you can also drop your audio file and play chromatically with Toadsyour audio.
Visualizer
Cicade
When Music Starts Drawing
Cicade transforms sound into moving lines, shapes and visual structure.
Synthesizer
Lobster
Analogue-inspired poly synth
A simple polyphonic synth built around warmth and movement.
Synthesizer
Whale
Expressive poly synth
Square and saw waves with loads of modulation. Deckard says hello.
Synthesizer
Mantis
Phase-Shaping Synthesizer
Mantis delivers sound directly in your face. vibrant and moving.
Generativ Tone
Nautilus
Evolving Resonant Field
A resonant field in slow motion. Patterns return, currents drift, small changes accumulate.
Effects
Starfish
Granular loop machine
Turns short recordings or audio files into moving granular clouds of sound.
VST
Effects
Conch
Convolution reverb
Real spaces and resonant objects captured as impulse responses.
Effects
Uroboro
Infinite granulator
Uroboro transforms sound in a chromatic playable infinity.
Topic
20 Records To Know
A map, not a canon.
20 records that changed the language of music.
Topic
11 Soundtracks
You Need to Hear
Eleven film scores that work as autonomous listening experiences — outside the cinema, outside the image.
Sound Sources
Contact Felt
Noisy upright piano recordings
20 intimate recordings of an upright piano captured with a lo-fi contact microphone — felt, wood, mechanics, resonance and plenty of noise.
Sound Sources
Fading Umbra
Drones, textures and landscapes
58 slowly evolving sounds shaped with modular hardware — drones, sustained tones and atmospheric landscapes somewhere between stillness and movement.
Sound Sources
Guitar Rummage
Guitar fragments and performances
38 electric guitar recordings passed through the Ensoniq DP/4+ — chords, fragments, performances and atmospheres, from recognisable guitar to something less obvious.
Inspiration
Eerie Board
Build your own dread machine
The piezo hears what your ear doesn't: Mount objects that promise noise. From there, electronics do the rest. A way to make dystopian sounds yourself — like Nordic Noir by Cinematique Instruments.
Inspiration
Playing The Building
Sound beyond instruments
David Byrne turned a building into an instrument. What if sound was already everywhere?
Personal Selection · Listening
One Track
Sound can be soul
One piece of music that does something to us. Sound is soul. Sound is emotion. A personal selection.
Toneveld Machines · Music
Music Made By Toneveld Machines
Listen to what is possible
Music made with Toneveld web audio machines and plug-ins. Not a demo reel — finished tracks that show where these instruments can go