Music

I created gystsy in an effort to capture the sound I hope to develop as I delve deeper into music. The idea for the second half of the song came from messing with the audio playback speed settings in post production, which I decided to incorporate in order to establish a more experimental song structure.

In this song I wanted to hone in on beatmaking above all other components. The skittery percussion were sounds I recorded from a malfunctioning monitor and further distorted using pitch shift and effects in Ableton. I wanted to replicate the crunchy, distorted beat characteristic of many IDM songs in the last section of the song.

I created each sound of this track from scratch in an effort to develop my knowledge of basic sound design. The pads and sounds were all created from a sine wave template on the Synclavier V and polished with EQ, reverb, and other effects in Ableton.

I’ve worked on synthesizing sounds for music, particularly synth pads and drum sounds. The primary tools I use for this are the Synclavier V using the basic sine template and VCV Rack for a modular approach. I further distort the patches I create in Ableton Live for more interesting effects.