This is my interpretation of Aphex Twin's style of music off of his earlier releases like Selected Ambient Works '85-'92. In this piece I worked with applying reverb, tape saturation, and using samples in a similar method as Aphex Twin.

This is a track that I made is a head nod to old demonstration songs that one would find on toy keyboards since I personally had one growing up. The song is very basic in nature and I created a synth patch in NI Massive that replicated the same limitations that these toy keyboards had such as a two voice synth and simplistic drums.

Analog Toy [tango]

This song is See Ya Next Tuesday, a song originally recorded by deadmau5, which I recreated in Ableton Live by listening to the song and working out all the notes and rhythms by ear. I created all the synth patches as well. 

See Ya Next Tuesday (Remake)

This song is Suite02, an unreleased song originally made by deadmau5, which I used as a method to better explore NI Massive's synth capabilities. In this recreation I focused more on the synth patches and mixing.

Suite02 (Remake)

In this piece, I worked in Ableton Live on imitating Aphex Twin's IDM style in through complex drum rhythms and layering. Through this piece I was able to explore the rhythmic possibilities by layering different synths and drum patterns.

homework

In this piece, I focused primarily on more experimental and sample based music. I utilized many of the features in Ableton Live such as the Beat Repeat and Sampler plugins to manipulate samples with some of them reversed, slowed down, and even glitched to add variety to song structure and rhythms. 

Michael Kovacs