𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦

Rich Kids

Rich Kids (feat. thea wang)

Experimental house music. The melodic element was created by reversing an orchestral string sample.

Gilded Age

"Hollow" is a fusion of rap and deep house, with an emphasis on vocal production and sound design. My inspiration for this track came from an improvised live performance on my MIDI keyboard. The song’s production process explores the Ableton session view’s loop-based production capabilities. 

Production:
Improvised melodies and chords for 10 minutes, then laid out the song structure using loop performance. Sidechain, reverb, and other audio manipulation techniques are utilized to make the vocal fit the groove of the 4-on-the-floor kick drum.

Hollow

Listen as intense cinematic soundscapes transform into glitching electronic bombardment. Composed at the onset of the Russo-Ukrainian War, this Midtempo Bass music expressed my growing concern for military escalation. 

Production:
The first cinematic section consists of layers of synthesized drones, reverberated sirens, and distorted reese bass. The introduction of 2 synth lead arpeggios, combined with white noise risers and accelerating drum beats, created an effective buildup. After the apex of the buildup, all previous music elements are suddenly removed, allowing the heavy bassline and tom drum roll to punch through the mix. Then enter a barrage of distorted glitches, gated electric hum, and thumping kick drums.

Dystopia

What happens when kankyo ongaku meets musique concrete? "Inorganic Nature" explores the juxtaposition and harmony between environmental recordings, sonic artifacts, sustained soundscapes, and spontaneous microsounds.

Production:
Field recordings were gathered during one spring outing to the local botanic park. Microsound collage created in the Max/MSP software, where I utilized frequency modulation, bit-crush, comb filter, and allpass filter to transform simple sine waves into complex microsounds. Ambient soundscapes synthesized using MassiveX. Postprocessing (panning, EQ, compression) added in Ableton Live.

Inorganic Nature

Prisoner's Cinema

DATA

Tainy, Bad Bunny - MOJABI GHOST

The Forgetting Curve

my beat from Andrew Huang's 4 Producers 1 Sample Challenge

video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvKY_DnM1PA

Inorganic Nature

Shu Xu

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