Category: Audio Fundamentals

Before I started working on the track, I decided to try something a more experimental than before. I’ve played with modular synthesizer for two years but have never done a complete track with it, so I decided to make a dawless track with the system. Conceptually, I want to create a generative patch with the…

The experimental music piece I would like to analyze as an example of “sound shaping” is one of my favorite albums by Amnesia Scanner “Another Life”. The track carries on their previous style, creating a sense of anxiety and unease. In terms of genre, it is a classic example of deconstructed club music. Listeners experience…

The track I think has a great spatial processing is the track “Inside World” by Oneohtrix point Never. The track sounds like walking into some weird digital world that never fully loads. Stuff just appears, hangs there, then disappears before you get used to it. The space in this piece feels fake on purpose. Like…

The track has been mixed in a way that appeals to me is “Practice of Hygiene” by Pan Daijing. What pulled me in first is how close the sound feels. It doesn’t open like a normal song. Instead, it starts with a voice that feels almost like a whisper or an ASMR note, and then…

Ring modulation is usually talked about to make sounds weird. You put two signals into it and the result can turn metallic, bell-like, or just harsh. That is the part people notice first. But after working with it a bit, I started to feel that this is not really the most interesting thing about it.…

The unique thing about modular synthesizers is that they’re always in an “unfinished” state. You can always add new modules to the system and create more complex patches. But motivation of composing can be easily shift from “What kind of sound do I want to create?” to “How complex can this system get?” Sometimes, when…