REQ: Orchestral Tools Radome

A mind-bending solo cello from a unique player. Unconventional articulations with transformative processing plus electronic sounds and mysterious noises—all captured in an unusual, evocative acoustic space.



Straight out of a giant, spherical radar station, Radome combines provocative cello with electronic noise, ambient textures, and distorted artifacts—a sublime palette for sound design. Perfect for creating horror and suspense, or expressing dark, complex emotional textures.

19 articulations
5 mic positions
Processed: 6 drones, 4 textures, 6 static and interference sounds, 4 percussive impact, 5 variable multi-layered noise patches

Avant-garde cello in a highly distinctive environment:
Use Radome to build an intriguing sonic environment with the raspy, overpressured sustains and harmonic-laden oscillations of a solo cello. Inject suspense with string scrapes, gull-like calls, hair-raising harmonic glissandi, and screeching trills.

Transformative patches combine the ambience of the distinctive acoustic space with heavy effects processing and layered synth textures to create a range of uncommon sounds. Select from an array of droning patches set in cavernous spaces. And draw from sounds that evoke the site’s ominous past, including electronic static, crackly interference, and electronic pulses as well as enigmatic, echoing noises and eerie winds.

Inside Radome:
The sounds of Radome were recorded at Berlin’s iconic Teufelsberg. German for ‘Devil’s Mountain’, Teufelsberg is a hill built with rubble from the second world war. The hill is also home to an abandoned Cold War listening station. And it’s here, inside the site’s largest radar dome (a large, spherical structure that protects a radar antenna from the elements), that we captured the unique acoustics and resonant ambiences for this collection.