![]() 10 Day New England Fall Road Trip Add a day before and two after, so September 27 through October 6. 7 Day New England Fall Road Trip Add a day either side, so September 28 through October 4. I could do that today - I could make a song with a sound in it that no one in the history of this planet has ever heard. 5 Day New England Fall Road Trip We would suggest aiming for September 29 through October 3. We have a lot to learn from technology, and we’ve got more at our fingertips now than ever before in the history of mankind. What I’m getting into is something called granular synthesis, which is taking real-world sounds, layering and stretching them, and instead of using sine waves, square waves, and saw waves, using recordings. What’s one technique that excites you right now?Ī. “Skin” features a lot of sonic experimentation. Pairing that sound design with the classic songwriting excites me. Flosstradamus, Deer Tick, Okkervil River, Flume, Lucius, Big Black Delta. You can make sounds with a computer that you couldn’t have made 40 years ago. Boston Calling Music Festival is a Boston-based music festival. But the one area of music that I don’t feel has been fully explored, because we haven’t had the tools to explore it, is sound design. Music has been around since people have been around, and it’s evolved, and we’ve always had the ability to create rhythm with drums then string instruments. With “Wall ,” the objective was to create a song that sounds like the tearing of the fabric of the universe. With “Never Be Like You,” the focus was on the vocals and creating a real, classic song. How does that manifest across the album?Ī. That juxtaposition between organic and synthetic was very present throughout the record, organic being vocals and real-world sounds, and synthetic being when I would manipulate them with effects to create more unusual, alien-sounding stuff. I like to think of the sounds as paint you can work with, and I spend a lot of time working on organic and synthetic sounds, finding a rhythm between both. As a producer I spend a lot of time working on the tone and textures, the sonic palette - call it the sonic fingerprint. Looking specifically at “Skin,” what inspired you?Ī. +Main menu New Arrivals Sale Antique Factories & Makers Apsley Pellatt Baccarat Bacchus Bohemian Boston & Sandwich Modern Artists & Makers. like that happens in LA it’s crazy and inspiring. Then Elon Musk was at Sean Parker’s house - and I own a Tesla. for many years an accomplished pianist (appearing with the Boston Symphony and the Brandeis Chamber Ensemble. The inspiration came from not so much the place, but the people - the fact that I could just go see Kanye at the Hollywood Bowl, then see Tove Lo the next day, and that night I was with Ella, you know? And then I was at Andrew Wyatt’s house and we went to dinner at Sean Parker’s place, the guy behind Napster, Spotify, and Facebook, which is the nicest house I’ve been to in my life. My manager and I realized that we had to get this album done, so we both went over. I had a bunch of ideas, and I’d been working on it for a little while, but I didn’t have any finished songs - or any songs, really. ![]() No, yeah, I moved to LA for three months while recording. That wouldn’t be your first time in LA.Ī.
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