"It's the musical equivalent of someone whispering in your ear": Max Richter's SRM Sounds releases ASMR Choir, a vocal and string library with a "low-dynamic and ultra-close" vibe

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SRM Sounds is a virtual instrument brand headed up by composer Max Richter and his partner visual artist Yulia Mahr. Recorded in Richter's Oxfordshire studio space, Studio Richter Mahr, the company's libraries are developed in partnership with Song Athletics, a creative studio founded by ex-Spitfire Audio CEO Will Evans.

Having previously released Kontakt instruments based on the sounds of his Steinway D SPIRIO | r and a 15-piece timpani ensemble, Richter has focused SRM's next library on the phenomenon of ASMR, or Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, the euphoric tingling sensation some of us experience in response to soft, gentle or particularly tactile sounds.