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Follow on from last post: Back cover artwork for EP. Show support and follow the socials ✊

Latest update for EP artwork, project is coming up to end of deadline within the next few weeks. Shortly after will be releasing EP for online streaming and free download via website, soundcloud, youtube, & bandcamp.

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Another update on how things are going so far with my Major project, throughout the past few months I have been focusing on organizing which ideas and tracks would be presented on the EP and have been preparing them for a final mix. This is a rough mix of a track I posted earlier in the year, since then the main changes include the vocals now being layered each with shifts in pitch to produce a wider vocal effect, whilst also attempting to remove elements of gender from the voice. Other changes include the addition of the intro and chorus, as well as a few composition, arrangement, and mixing alterations.

#UKG #UK Garage #Dubstep

Recently I have also been working on producing artwork to be used for my website and social media channels. Within the next few days I’m also planning to finish developing artwork for the E.P.

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This week I have been finishing off a few tracks that I have been working on over the last few months and preparing them to be mixed down at Elephant Studios within the next week or so.

With this track I’ve attempted to reference and take inspiration from a sound palette of early 2000′s UK underground music styles; built around oldskool sounding UKG 2-step break-beats, delayed stabs, and ravey synths fused with globby basslines.

#Music #musicproduction #UKG #Bassline #2-Step

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So following on from my last post, this is one of the tracks I’ve been working on. It’s still in development; the entire track still needs to be mixed, and the vocals on the track (performed by Black Phoenix) still need to be edited and modulated with effects as they were only recorded recently within Elephant Studios.

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Whooops... I’ve been away a while, quick update on how things are going:

Okay so it’s been a while since I’ve kept this updated primarily due to being tied up with my dissertation (which is finally out of the way), as well as a few other projects which I am still working on.

In the end my dissertation focused on the aesthetic links between modern producers within the UK Bass scene and compared them to the aesthetics embedded within the Hardcore continuum, a term dubbed by Simon Reynolds to describe a lineage of UK rave music that began to take shape and evolve in the UK around the early 1990′s, starting out with genres such as Hardcore Techno and Hardcore Rave, and evolving to include genres such as Jungle, Drum & Bass, UK Garage, Grime, Dubstep, and Bassline. Throughout it also discusses the apparent increasingly nostalgia within this UK sub-culture towards aesthetics from the past.

With this concept in mind, when creating my E.P. I have been trying to capture an authentic flavor of the old-skool UK underground sound, however rather than creating a pastiche album imitating the heritage of these UK styles, I am attempting to fuse together my own personal taste, along with sounds and aesthetics which I feel would fit in with the sounds of the 90′s - early 2000 circa of UK Garage / Dubstep.

Throughout the last 7 months I have created around 14-16 potential ideas for the E.P. Out of these I have decided on around 7-8 that I will continue to work on and prepare to be mixed. (Will upload some of these later)

In this time I’ve also focused on building a website to display my portfolio of work, a page on Bandcamp, as well as social media pages on Facebook & Twitter, with plans to make a YouTube account as well as potentially a Twitch / Periscope to maybe stream music tutorials in Ableton (patch building, creative techniques, etc.), or even film sessions whilst producing / mixing... So anyone reading feel free to follow. (Will add links in next post)

Plans for the next few weeks involve editing a few elements within a few tracks to prepare them for their final mix which I aim to have complete before the 25th of May. Will try to keep this updated more regularly as I go on...

#Music Production #university #blog

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Another weekly update: Here’s the latest idea for a track I’ve been working on, starting to build up ideas for the sound palette I’ll be aiming for to be used in my EP.

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So as part of a challenge I set myself to try to upload one new idea every week here’s the latest idea for a track that I’ve been working on. Recently I have been trying to focus on creating low & mid frequency basslines and blending them with atmospheric effects. It still needs to be progressed as it’s not quite finished yet.

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Just another quick idea, again experimenting with textures and vocal manipulation to create a dark, gritty soundscape. Also worked on designing some patches which I used to create the basslines.

#soundesign #dubstep #soundscapes #music production

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Quick update - Just reaching the end of the 5th week of my project so far... haven’t had much time to keep the blog updated as I’ve been working away but am now feeling much more confident about the direction I want to take with my project.

Anyway here’s a quick demo track of an idea I started working on a few days ago experimenting with vocal manipulation and lo-fi textures to create soundscapes within a track.

I’ve decided to try to design one new idea every week, whether that be an idea for a track, designing a new patch, or adopting a new workflow / experimenting with new techniques.

#sounddesign #soundscape #vocalmanipulation

Third week in.. starting to get a better idea of what direction I want to take

So this is the end of my third week back at University, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking over the past few weeks about how I will approach my major project (the EP) and my research thesis, and after stressing and pulling my hair out trying to come up with ideas I finally sat back listened to some of my favorite producers and thought to myself what is it about the music that I listen to that inspires me... (now I might go on to ramble a bit here, but it ties back in, I promise)

In general I’m quite open minded when it comes to music, my influences span a wide range - however I can’t deny that I’ve always been an avid fan of the darker sound of genres such as dubstep and grime (although these sounds have developed and changed over the years and not particularly to my liking)... I’m talking about the dark, ‘urban’ sound of the UK underground from around 2000-2010 as genres such as garage began to evolve and spawn new hybrids such as dark garage, dubstep and grime inspired by producers such as El-B, Digital Mystikz, Horsepower Productions, & Burial.

Personally when I was listening to these artists growing up I had so much hope for the direction of the UK Urban music scene... however around 10 years later and I feel quite disappointed about the destination that many of these genres ended up. I’ve found that a lot of music released within the last 5 years or so hasn’t really grabbed my attention like it used to... at first I thought it may have just been nostalgia for the music I grew up listening to, until I came across a term called ‘Hauntology’ - according to Wikipedia - Hauntology is a concept coined by philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book Spectres of Marx. The term refers to the situation of temporal, historical, and ontological dis-junction in which the apparent presence of being is replaced by an absent or deferred non-origin.

Essentially the idea of Hauntology suggests that the present exists only with respect to the past, and that after the end of history; society will begin to orient itself towards ideas and aesthetics that are thought of as rustic, bizarre, or “old-timely” in reference to the “ghost” of the past... It’s an interesting concept and I think it definitely links to my appreciation of the production styles and techniques and aesthetics of UK urban underground music from around 2000-2010.

As part of my research thesis I have therefore decided to research further into hauntology and the appreciation of the lo-fi aesthetic, particularly within UK ‘urban’ music genres such as grime, dubstep & garage. I have also decided to take my influence of this sound and what it personally means to me and try to emulate this within my EP.

#sounddesign #projectjournal #musicproduction #lo-fi #urbandecay #hauntology

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Just an idea for a track that I made today experimenting with glides and delays. I’m going to try to keep posting any experimental ideas I come up with as I go along

An introduction of what’s been done and what’s yet to come...

Firstly hello to anyone reading, just to introduce myself my name is Conor, I’m a sound designer based in London, aspiring to become a music producer, and currently returning for my third and final year at university studying sound design.

So far my experience as a sound designer has involved working on various collaborative projects including producing music and sound effects for video games and films, audio post-production for short-films / television, and recording, mixing and mastering music within a studio environment... as well as a lot of bedroom music production! (We can’t all have our own studio unfortunately)

Throughout this year I have decided to focus on creating a collection of tracks to be released as an EP and as part of my major project at university. I am planning to approach the EP by using some of the various techniques I have learned throughout my time as a sound designer as well as experimenting with as many new techniques and ideas as I can.

My approach to music production has always been experimental as I have never been taught music theory or have any experience playing an instrument, asides from a few small things I have learned along the way I would say my greatest experience of music production has been gained from my time sat in front of a computer using software like Ableton and just creating different sounds and experimenting new ideas.

The blog will keep you updated on my current projects I am involved in and my thought process throughout.

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