Author: Alfie Wall

Today I spent some time trying to recreate a section of a track I really love, “Circuit Reflex” by Niqh and Hypna. This was a task suggested a few weeks ago in class, and I thought it could be a good way for me to understand composition in general more deeply, not just as a…

Today I spent some time in Ableton, experimenting with textures and processing using Granulator 3. I’d been reading Curtis Roads’ Microsound and wanted to try out some of the ideas he talks about, especially how granular synthesis lets you work at an incredubly small scale of sound, where texture becomes the focus instead of rhythm…

Today I spent some time in Ableton working on gathering material to use as samples in future projects. I wanted to explore sounds that have really unique timbre and spectral quality. I’m a big fan of sounds that feel alive, alien, or hard to categorise, so more ways to create these kinds of sounds is…

I have been reading Music, Cognition, and Computerized sound (An Introduction to Psychoacoustics) by Perry R. Cook, and it’s been inspiring for me. Today I decided to see if I could figure out how to make a Shepard tone from scratch, and this is how my process went. I started by thinking about how a…

Today I decided to take a different approach to working in Ableton, less about trying to finish a track or “be productive,” and more about just having fun with sound. After reading that interview with Hekt and thinking about how he treats production as a playful, open ended process, I felt inspired to do the…

I recently came across Hekt (Jesper Nørbæk)‘s track ‘Front’ while listening to a dj mix from Unearth and Guide on Reprezent Radio on soundcloud, and I was just so intruigued by the sound design initially, I used shazam and luckily it worked so i could see who made it. What drew me in was first…

Rave music often focuses on texture, rhythm, production, or genre. One thing that doesn’t get discussed as much is the physical sensation of sound. In this blogpost I want to discuss this. Different frequencies can be felt in different areas of the body. Sub-bass (under 60 Hz) in feet and chest, Mid-bass (60–200 Hz) in…

This blogpost is a plan we worked on together in class. We discussed, and decided on the name “Tactile frequencies”. Our plan is to create a piece of audio intended for radio, with the intention of conveying the sensations experienced at raves. I shared Iglooghost’s Lei Disk broadcast with my group members for inspiration. We…