Creating Music With Found Sounds for Inflated Inspirations

Inflated Inspirations is a collaboration between Pop My Mind and VIP Balloons, which is an installation of Balloon Art, telling the story of Pop My Mind. The installation was hosted by the Waterfront Gallery, part of the University of Suffolk, in Ipswich during the Summer of 2017.

I was invited to the event’s build days to record audio, and create a musical piece out of the resulting samples.The resulting piece if the video below.

 

 

 

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If you’re the kind of person who’d like to know about how this music was made, (i.e., a cool person), then you can watch the video below.

 

In this behind-the-scenes / how-to video I talk about manipulating found sounds to create music and specifically how I achieved this for Inflated Inspirations.
Other topics include:

• Creation of instruments using samples and Kontakt;
• Granular synthesis with Padshop Pro;
• Sampling with Battery;
• Automation of instruments and FX in Cubase;
• Colouring sections in Cubase to aid workflow.

 

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Here are a few links:

• Inflated Inspirations homepage
• Pop My Mind
• VIP Balloons

 

The Best DAW?

Some musicians will tell you that all DAWs do essentially the same thing, so it doesn’t really matter; others will get angry if you tell them you use anything other than their favourite. Is there a legitimate answer to the question “which DAW is best?”
Watch to find out!

Tune all the Strings to B

Cubase Stream #5

Another hour-long production tutorial thing. Watch me make electronic music from scratch!

Access the project files along with audio and MIDI stems from Blend.io

I’ve still not upgraded from Cubase 8, but I’m sure you’ll cope.
Also struggling with some sync and audio issues, but hopefully that’s not noticeable.

Granular Synthesis for Guitar

The first of possibly several guitar production & manipulation tutorials, looking at Granular Synthesis.

 

Launchpads Aren’t Instruments

Excuse the baity title, but! Are Launchpads musical instruments? To what extent does it depend on their use? Are “Launchpad Covers” ALL garbage?
All this and more!

 

Cubase ROCK

A one-off Cubase stream, a bit shorter than the others, in which I create the outline of a rock song with live guitars and programmed bass and drums. Not uploading this one to Blend.io I’m afraid as I want to keep this track for myself! Basically I had this idea at work and figured I may as well record me creating it on the off-chance someone learns something, and also because it helps me make faster decisions!