Depending on how much you were anticipating Spectrasonics Omnisphere, you may or may not know who Diego Stocco is. Well, for those that aren't as familiar, he was one of the sound designers responsible for sampling burning pianos and engineering other wacky ideas that contributed to making Omnisphere one of the most innovative and expansive software synthesizers ever released.

So where do you go from there? If you're Diego Stocco, you go . . . RIGHT NEAR DA BEACH, BOYEEEEE!

That's right. Diego Stocco's latest project is called "Music From Sand," and it's a track he's composed using sand, lots of sand and only sand as his instrument. The inspiration came from some sandbags sitting in his backyard and the sound came from experimentation with a new sound design technique using transducer microphones oftentimes taped to his fingers or rigged up in some such similar way.

Every single sound in "Music From Sand" was created with tuned sand tones. Diego describes his process a bit:

"I emphasized the inner notes of the sand grains and mapped them on a sampler as a series of instruments. The grooves are all played live with various techniques, including taping two piezo films to my fingers."

Nonetheless, it's nearly unbelievable that all the sound that comprises "Music From Sand" was made, well, from sand. If Diego wasn't such a solid guy with tons of experience designing sound from things your average listener wouldn't even imagine, I wouldn't believe him. Listen at the link below.