He communicates his quite complex ideas, though a very well developed vocabulary, to a wide audience, in an understandable way. Bach and Tim Hecker, in terms of music, and Ryuichi Sakamoto in terms of the whole thing - he manages to stay strong and produce fantastic meaningful works in both experimental and mainstream (as a film composer) musical scenes, not compromising neither his identity nor ideology. Not because I still feel Trent Reznor's strong influence (though I must admit, his recent works as a film music composer are something!), but because it was music I listened to the most in my teens (especially Downward Spiral and Fragile), so it became an intrinsic part of me that I wouldn't be able to get rid of it even if I wanted to.Īs for now, my most significant musical influences are, probably, John Luther Adams, J.S. If I had to point one just one, I would name Nine Inch Nails. What has been your most significant musical influence? Of course, I can no longer do mastering, so sound engineer's role gained even more importance in my musical practice. It's far from perfect, but I can do mixing, though I would prefer other professional to at least check it. It was severe initially, with approximately -70 dB from 250 Hz to 2500 Hz, so I basically could hear with my left ear only, but it partially recovered to moderate/mild -20 dB in the same frequency range, so the stereo image has returned. I'm very grateful to him.Īnd now I have to rely on mixing and mastering specialists even more since I partially lost my hearing in July because of idiopathic SSHL in the right ear. I worried about the sound quality, since most of them were mixed in a synth approaching the fly, and recorded on one track in a DAW, but Taylor Deupree did a fantastic mastering. So most of Iridescent LP is just raw recordings of modular synth improvisations. I recorded around 50 sessions, each one lasting 20-45 minutes, then took fragments that I liked and picked the ones that would work in the context of LP. It was the time when I've been performing a switch from the laptop to all hardware setup, and then, gradually to a modular setup. It correlated with the ongoing changes in my live setup as well. Due to circumstances, I couldn't work for long periods of time in the studio, so I had to completely rethink my process and switch from long composition sessions to swift and raw improvisation sessions. The production process is a consequence of struggles I had at the time. You recently released your Album "Iridescent," Tall as about the production process and struggles along the way? Initially, music was just something fun to do, then it gradually became a hobby and then gradually became a profession, in a span of the first 10 years. I recorded my first tracks in August 2003 and switched to Cubase later in 2004. A friend of mine recommended me to try Jeskola Buzz tracker since it wasn't rooted in traditional music theory as much as other DAWs and would probably feel intuitive to an IT person with no musical training. I've been curious about music production, but knew nothing about it, though I was well versed with software because of my background in computer science. Tell us all about how your journey as Heinali started? Back when I started I didn't even know the difference between high and low frequencies. Bands and projects like Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Nurse With Wound, Nine Inch Nails, Sal Solaris, Current 93, Reutoff, the Sisters of Mercy, Aphex Twin, Kazumoto Endo and many many more names that changed the way I thought about music and profoundly influenced both my listener and artistic identities.ĭId you get a formal Sound/Production education? Back then, it was nearly impossible to get non-mainstream music in Ukraine in music stores, so we were exchanging our collections on CD-Rs and tapes. Though I think I formed my music listener identity later, in my teens, when I discovered a lot of weird music that blew my mind thanks to mixtape CDRs from my friends. ![]() ![]() I listened to a lot of music when I was a kid. You already were featured on our MusicSpot a few months back, excited to be this month's SoundGym hero?Ībsolutely! Thank you guys very much for the feature. ![]() Electronic Music Composer and Sound Artist, Recently released is new album "Iridescent", Shpudeiko is this month SoundGym Hero! So how long have you been on SoundGym?
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