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Submission Questions and Answers:
1. Who are you, and what do you do?
We are a two brothers who explore music and 3-D design with unique approaches to work flow hoping to inspire new creations. We both grew up in the British countryside near a town called Salisbury. After having completed secondary education we have both moved to a seaside city near London called Brighton to study Music Technology and 3-D design at university level. It is a great place to be but we often find that we keep seeking out beautiful natural spots to write our music! Together, we are avid cyclists and enjoy going on cycle tours during the summer months. We are currently working towards creating electronic music whilst cycling touring around France for the upcoming summer.
2. Can you tell us a little about your usual creative process?
Our Creative process explores how different approaches to musical creation affect the sounds that we make. We pack our bicycles with musical equipment and cycle off into the natural Sussex downs to find a spot that is beautiful and peaceful. We then will set up a tarp (a tent like structure) and start to set our musical equipment inside. We produce our music mainly using a laptop, midi controllers and speakers. This way we can carry everything we need to create on the go. Our creative process predominantly focuses on creating sounds that are organic (with constant variation) by taking field recordings and samples from the sites that we create in. This helps us create site specific work and has become a fundamental part of making our music natural.
3. How did you apply your creative process to this Harmony Tracks challenge?
We applied our creative process to this Harmony track by taking our laptops and midi controllers into nature on two separate occasions. Our process of creating is very influenced by our surroundings whereby we have to respond to the weather. At this time of the year the daylight hours are limited and so often we find ourselves creating music in the dark whilst overlooking the city lights of Brighton. This was very inspiring for our harmony track composition as the changing light gave us different perspectives of our surroundings which changed and influenced the mood of our track.
4. What is behind your choice of sound and what fed your inspiration?
When creating our Harmony track we wanted to compose a piece that had variation in dynamic range and mood. Our track has two distinct sections that signify the two different places that we went to compose the track. The beginning of the track is a dynamic soundscape, inspired by our bicycle journey from the noisy city of brighton to the nature of the Sussex downs. The second section introduces a lead line and drum beat which was inspired by the seeing the city lights of Brighton amongst the fading light.
5. What advice do you have for others about to create their Harmony Track?
Our advice for others who are yet to compose a Harmony Track is to explore writing a part of your work in a new and different location from that of your usual composing place. This could be as simple as just thinking of a new drum rhythm or melody line whilst on the train to work. You might be surprised with how different places can coax new musical ideas.
6. Do you have a nice memory of Genelec you would like to share with us?
Our project to create music on our bicycles has been a long journey. It takes a lot of organisation and thinking to be able to get a set of equipment that can be packed into a bag and travelled with. When we discovered that our university tech stores had a pair of Genelec 8020c that we could rent it was a wonderful moment. These speakers were so compact, durable and robust that we have confidently taken them out into the woods in our bicycle pannier bags. They sound clean and give us confidence that if our mixes are sounding good on them, they will sound good anywhere. We hope to one day own a pair of Genelecs for ourselves to help us travel the world on our bicycles and make music.
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