My first crack at electronic music!  All of the synthesized sounds were built from the ground up for a sound synthesis class at Coventry University.    I was aiming for an 80's SynthPop kind of vibe (hence the love theme...).  The arpeggiated bits were made with a modular analog synthesizer called the Roland 100M.  It was a sweet learning experience: we take so much for granted nowadays.  To select pitches or a tempo on the R100's sequencer, you have to turn a knob to an exact position, and there are no labels to tell you which note or tempo is which, you have to use your ears!  Quite satisfying when it finally sounds descent : ) 

What is Love

I made this back in December 2012 for a composition assignment.  I recorded all of the sounds myself and then layered them up with Kontakt.  A requirement of this assignment was that the samples I recorded could not be of traditional music instruments.   A lot of my favorite samples seemed to start slow, get faster, and then change, which also happens to be the meaning of Jo Ha Kyu, which is a prevalent Japanese aesthetic.  

Nik Steel