[Music]
[Applause]
so this was a small excerpt from a song
that I wrote from my first album and
there’s a little story behind it it was
the first time I experienced recording
in a very unusual setting and
environment so a couple of summers ago
me and my very good friend CLE steps out
stirs who’s also becoming a great sound
engineer we went to my countryside home
to record couple of ideas and one day
the weather was particularly good so we
decided to record outside and it was the
time for the guitar and what Kristoff’s
came up with was to put the guitar
amplifier in front of a nearby lake so
what happens is the sound from the
amplifier goes in the lake well not into
the water but it goes over the lake and
then bounces off the surrounding forest
and then comes back so we put two
microphones on the shore to catch that
[Music]
so when mixing a song usually what you
do if you need a reverb you use a
digital one but instead we use the one
that lake provided us and of course it’s
not perfect you know it you can you can
hear many different things in it there’s
locusts and grasshoppers and wind and
birds and everything but I remember that
experience recording that and listening
to that through the earphones and then
you know when when working on the song
was smoothly recording back again and
has just fell in love with that moment
because it sort of seems like the whole
meadow is somehow interacting with the
music and working with it together and I
got very hooked on that feeling so
looking for a different ways how to
record music and searching for these
different musical elements became like a
hobby for me see I was born in a family
of musicians and my dad is a court
conductor and my mom teaches kids how to
sing and although I quickly fell in love
with some aspects of music they were
never once a person could seemingly
build a career on I didn’t enjoy
children music school that much however
I started my first rock band around the
age of 12 it was very difficult for me
to understand when and how basic
Solfeggio overlaps with the sound of
let’s say Nirvana you know I didn’t
enjoy the concerts my parents were
taking me too too much the music seems
way too complex and it wasn’t really
speaking to me however I always loved
hearing my dad playing piano at home and
[Music]
this is actually a tiny piece yogi
Ligeti for a choral piece looks the
tenor but the way it sounds out the
context is very childlike and it almost
seems random and when I was a kid I
loved you know just sitting down at the
piano and smashing the keys then playing
couple of notes listening to them what’s
going on there then smashing the keys
again so hearing my dad a professional
musician playing these things made it
more relatable in a sense it was a lot
later in life when I started to hear and
maybe somewhat understand how these
things turn into the beautiful pieces of
art they actually are let’s listen to
that in the full context and tried to
hear that little piano thing in there
[Music]
[Laughter]
did you catch that I mean that little
piano piece that sounds so simple now in
the full context has become something
amazingly an immense beauty let’s listen
to that again and I’ll sing it along
so I was growing up and you know I felt
very strongly about music but becoming a
rock star did not seemed like the safest
career path so I decided to study
something else and I wanted to study
economics in Stockholm School of
Economics in Riga however at the end of
my studies it became really clear to me
that there’s nothing I would rather do
for the rest of my life out of the music
and this was around the time when me and
Christmas went to the countryside home
and I got really into field recordings
so one day my mom asked me to come to
her workplace to record her students
playing drums so I went there I set up
the microphones put the chairs into
place and started testing drums on the
microphones and let it later we’re
listening back to the recording this
moment caught my attention let’s listen
I mean the way the floor creaks and the
chair and the drum booms seem to have
built a rhythm of its own so my only
task was to find the right tempo cut it
out loop it and then start adding layers
and layers and sounds on top of it so
[Music]
so yeah this is sort of become like a
little addiction for me to look for
these elements and although they rarely
play an important role in my music they
somehow provide that bonding bridge
between the real world and then the song
and it’s also that immense pleasure
which you get when you find like a
missing puzzle piece that’s been under
your bed for like past ten years and you
need that thing to complete the work
especially when you don’t have to adjust
[Music]
these are huge metal wind chimes in a
temple somewhere in Vietnam and I was
there a couple of years ago and recorded
this with my phone and then some time
passed and I was working in a song and I
needed these eerie atmospheric Bell like
sounds and I tried out many different
kinds of cents and nothing was really
working so I went to my music library
and found this thing and I yeah just put
it on there and it just works this is
so yeah I guess what I’m trying to say
is fairly simple and maybe it even
sounds like a cliche but I do believe we
live in a world that’s full of Wonders
and it’s right here for us to take and
explore and all you have to do sometimes
is just pay attention and well listen
and now I would like to introduce you
with my band and my very good friends go
James Ramsey on drums and Christina’s
vehicles on bass and we would like to
play a song for you that’s called call
and it’s partially based on two wooden
logs hidden against each other recording
that resembling that and then using that
as a rhythmic basis for the first part
Oh
[Music]
[Applause] [Music]
[Applause]
so this was a small excerpt from a song
that I wrote from my first album and
there’s a little story behind it it was
the first time I experienced recording
in a very unusual setting and
environment so a couple of summers ago
me and my very good friend CLE steps out
stirs who’s also becoming a great sound
engineer we went to my countryside home
to record couple of ideas and one day
the weather was particularly good so we
decided to record outside and it was the
time for the guitar and what Kristoff’s
came up with was to put the guitar
amplifier in front of a nearby lake so
what happens is the sound from the
amplifier goes in the lake well not into
the water but it goes over the lake and
then bounces off the surrounding forest
and then comes back so we put two
microphones on the shore to catch that
[Music]
so when mixing a song usually what you
do if you need a reverb you use a
digital one but instead we use the one
that lake provided us and of course it’s
not perfect you know it you can you can
hear many different things in it there’s
locusts and grasshoppers and wind and
birds and everything but I remember that
experience recording that and listening
to that through the earphones and then
you know when when working on the song
was smoothly recording back again and
has just fell in love with that moment
because it sort of seems like the whole
meadow is somehow interacting with the
music and working with it together and I
got very hooked on that feeling so
looking for a different ways how to
record music and searching for these
different musical elements became like a
hobby for me see I was born in a family
of musicians and my dad is a court
conductor and my mom teaches kids how to
sing and although I quickly fell in love
with some aspects of music they were
never once a person could seemingly
build a career on I didn’t enjoy
children music school that much however
I started my first rock band around the
age of 12 it was very difficult for me
to understand when and how basic
Solfeggio overlaps with the sound of
let’s say Nirvana you know I didn’t
enjoy the concerts my parents were
taking me too too much the music seems
way too complex and it wasn’t really
speaking to me however I always loved
hearing my dad playing piano at home and
[Music]
this is actually a tiny piece yogi
Ligeti for a choral piece looks the
tenor but the way it sounds out the
context is very childlike and it almost
seems random and when I was a kid I
loved you know just sitting down at the
piano and smashing the keys then playing
couple of notes listening to them what’s
going on there then smashing the keys
again so hearing my dad a professional
musician playing these things made it
more relatable in a sense it was a lot
later in life when I started to hear and
maybe somewhat understand how these
things turn into the beautiful pieces of
art they actually are let’s listen to
that in the full context and tried to
hear that little piano thing in there
[Music]
[Laughter]
did you catch that I mean that little
piano piece that sounds so simple now in
the full context has become something
amazingly an immense beauty let’s listen
to that again and I’ll sing it along
so I was growing up and you know I felt
very strongly about music but becoming a
rock star did not seemed like the safest
career path so I decided to study
something else and I wanted to study
economics in Stockholm School of
Economics in Riga however at the end of
my studies it became really clear to me
that there’s nothing I would rather do
for the rest of my life out of the music
and this was around the time when me and
Christmas went to the countryside home
and I got really into field recordings
so one day my mom asked me to come to
her workplace to record her students
playing drums so I went there I set up
the microphones put the chairs into
place and started testing drums on the
microphones and let it later we’re
listening back to the recording this
moment caught my attention let’s listen
I mean the way the floor creaks and the
chair and the drum booms seem to have
built a rhythm of its own so my only
task was to find the right tempo cut it
out loop it and then start adding layers
and layers and sounds on top of it so
[Music]
so yeah this is sort of become like a
little addiction for me to look for
these elements and although they rarely
play an important role in my music they
somehow provide that bonding bridge
between the real world and then the song
and it’s also that immense pleasure
which you get when you find like a
missing puzzle piece that’s been under
your bed for like past ten years and you
need that thing to complete the work
especially when you don’t have to adjust
[Music]
these are huge metal wind chimes in a
temple somewhere in Vietnam and I was
there a couple of years ago and recorded
this with my phone and then some time
passed and I was working in a song and I
needed these eerie atmospheric Bell like
sounds and I tried out many different
kinds of cents and nothing was really
working so I went to my music library
and found this thing and I yeah just put
it on there and it just works this is
so yeah I guess what I’m trying to say
is fairly simple and maybe it even
sounds like a cliche but I do believe we
live in a world that’s full of Wonders
and it’s right here for us to take and
explore and all you have to do sometimes
is just pay attention and well listen
and now I would like to introduce you
with my band and my very good friends go
James Ramsey on drums and Christina’s
vehicles on bass and we would like to
play a song for you that’s called call
and it’s partially based on two wooden
logs hidden against each other recording
that resembling that and then using that
as a rhythmic basis for the first part
Oh
[Music]
[Applause] [Music]
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