brettworks

Filter Sweeps move a sound from light to dark or dark to light, crisp to muted and back again. They’re a producer’s mixing move (borrowed from DJs) to build drama, to fade in/out with frequencies instead of volume. Filter Sweeps are always going somewhere, a process in process adding a dramatic What’s Next? sense to whatever is filtered. Go low enough to low-pass all but the bass, imparting mystery to a sound; go high enough to high-pass all but the highs, leaving the brittlest pointillism. Filter Sweeps are mood modifiers that give timbral change a seat at music’s table.