chipsqueek 2024-10-21 15:46:02 (Updated 2024-10-21 17:04:37)

thanks for the questions! (edit: did some grammar fixes)

1.
theres not really a clear singular thing that inspires me, it's mostly just what im interested in at the moment. like for example right now i've been listening to a lot of Lorn's music as well as making a lot of monochromatic/sci-fi art and playing a lot of Silent Hill while also going for a lot of walks, observing the world.
but most of the time i listen to a lot of darker ambient music, as well as a lot of Hip Hop/bass heavy trap music alongside chill idm electronic music. yin & yang kinda duelaity music listening. and i really like concept art for video games and sci-fi shows & movies like Amnesia, SOMA, Tron Legacy, Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Stray, etc. and since i do all my artwork for everything i publish solo, a lot of it is based off various things i injest through my eyes or ears, weather it be movies, games, albums, the real world, etc

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i'm completely self taught for music production, my mother had this old yamaha DJX synthesizer from the 90s to early 2000s, and as a kid during 2015 at the age of 9 or smth i used to come up with different melodies or sounds with it, most of them based off of the movies Tron Legacy, Harry Potter, or Titanic.
later in the years i advanced to learning how to use a DAW starting with LMMS then transitioning to FL Studio 12 and then updating to FL Studio 20 where i now use the latest version of FL Studio to this day in the same state since i started with, just modernized visually.
when i started using LMMS and FL Studio the tutorials at the time were very based around EDM and modernized dubstep so i was left on my own to trial and error sounds with synths like Harmor, Massive, and Sytrus to get the sounds i had in my head into audio.
i also started teaching myself how to play the guitar and bass during 2020 and later a bastardized cello in 2023 from my fender 5 string jazz bass and a cello bow since the cello has always been my favorite instrument next to the synthesizer.
i also started getting a bunch of analog hardware as well as making my own analog circuits and distrotion units to send audio through and learned audio routing and effect chains just by futzing with knobs and split chain processing.
but the short of it all, i got my hands dirty in the belly of the beast by brute forcing my ideas through experimentation over the course of nearly a decade!

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never really had any interest in it, all the vanity and the ego from it has never been on my radar as things to care about. i like being a human and having my hobbies

chipsqueek 2024-10-21 16:51:18 (Updated 2024-10-21 17:21:09)

hey! glad to see you here! (edit: did some grammar fixes)

1. "How do you go about producing songs? By which I mean, how do you develop your ideas into full tracks?"

theres not real easy answer for that one, i mostly just come up with a cool sound, or melody i had in my head and then start building off of it, either adding more sounds, or changing the context of where the melody works.
i sometimes just hum a melody when im either making tea, or on some walks and i try to keep it in my head ad nauseam so i don't forget it and i can think of what might work (sound wise) for the melody. or i hear this sound in my head and i try to emulate it the best i can in person since there are moments i can subconciously "hear" this sound in my head almost like i can sense it in my head, its never the same sound but that feeling of the sound gives me some neat ideas for basses or some really effect up sound design concepts.
also for developing ideas into full tracks is kinda random for the most part. sometimes i just add more and more and more until theres like 500 layers and my pc is starting to chug or i just add different variations of the same idea and frankenstein's monster them togethor all the while experimenting with a ton of factors, pitch, tuning, scale, context, sounds, etc.
experimentation is my calling for development basically

2. "what's your favorite time signature (that isn't a variant of 4/4 or 3/4)?"

i really like 5 measures of 4 bar instances aka 5/4 a lot, or undefined signatures, where you can't tell whats going to come up next, kinda like giant lines of signatures after each kinda like:
7/4-3/4-6/4-5/4 at ex:BPM, i like unpreditabilty in music and skewing with variables gives a neat result.