Category: Studio Praxis for sound artists

This is a project I recently started with a friend and musical collaborator of mine (who goes by the name ‘Noury Andre’). The first two tracks in the playlist are an ep, which we have yet to name. It was created by recording the room whilst we improvised for around half an hour switching between… Continue reading Collaborative improvisations w/ Noury Andre

A friend and musical collaborator of mine (who goes by the name Tony Bontana) was in London for a weekend, and we worked on some music. The first track is with Tony playing the guitar and me producing the session (recording, arranging, mixing), as well as playing some keys and other sounds such as strings… Continue reading Collaborative improvisations w/ Tony Bontana

This is a project of mine I made using a sample from Herbie Hancock’s version of Sting’s track ‘Sister Moon’ that was made with Sting and other instrumentalists as part of his project called ‘Possibilities’, I manipulated the sample to fit the beat for me to add drums how I wanted, once I had the… Continue reading Sampling works

This is a piece I made using an old keyboard I had going into my audio interface from the phones out, then using some different plugins and modulations to create some different sounds, and then automating a delay/ reverb/ effects plugin I had on the keys track to create some interesting synth type sounds. I… Continue reading Sound explorations

This is some work I made recently when going through samples I had downloaded on my computer and hearing what they all sounded like reversed, in order to find some new melodies and chop them together to create a new piece.

In this class we focused primarily on microphones and cardioid patterns of microphones, which was interesting to broaden my knowledge on them as well as invoking some ideas about the different uses for these different types, and for the possible practical applications of each kind of microphone, not just for accurate and conventionally effective recording… Continue reading Studio praxis reflection 1