Tom Adams is an English composer, electronic musician and singer/songwriter. He seamlessly blends (neo)classical music influences with retro/modern studio processing and electronic music elements. If you love Nils Frahm’s works, modern minimalism and the ‘vocal rollercoasters’ of Tim Buckley, Patrick Watson & co., you’ll probably treasure his name. He recently…
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interviews
Q&A With Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Painting Sounds
It doesn’t happen so often that I get excited with a ‘new artist’, so I’m happy to share with you one of the most intriguing discoveries I made this year. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is an American sound designer and composer. She studied composition and sound engineering at Berklee, to later…
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Q&A with Steven Slate – The Busiest Man In The Audio Industry?
I enjoy trying the craziest and newest virtual synths or FX, but when it comes to mixing plugins I’m usually quite conservative. I have my ‘circle of trust’ and I tend to stick to that. Now that I think of it, it’s funny that most of these names start with…
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Behind FLUX:FX – An Interview With Nick Mueller (NOIISE)
FLUX:FX, a multi-fx app for iPad created by NOIISE (a partnership between the acclaimed musician Adrian Belew + audio specialists Elephantcandy + mobile designers MOBGEN), has been one of the most enjoyable surprises for 2014. As we wrote in our Sonic Joy awards page, ‘Adrian Belew’s sound-mangling experience + great mobile…
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Making an editor for KORG volca sample: interview with Rej Poirier
KORG volca sample (I wonder why the lowercase…), the latest member of the popular volca sound boxes family, is a fun sample sequencer that generated lots of interest when it was announced, a few months ago. Checking out its features though, many users were disappointed reading that the only way…
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Off-the-record: Soundtoys
At Soundtoys they do work hard, no doubts. Their (may I add “awesome sounding”?) plug-ins, originally available for PT users only, were released in 2007 in the AU format, becoming an instant classic for native users. In the next weeks they’re going to release the much-awaited VST version. So, we’ve…