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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWho would you consider some of your biggest influences when it comes to your \u201csound\u201d?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
I have a lot of influences. My Dad was the main influence in terms of music because he was the one buying vinyl and playing music to me all the time. But Jean Michel Jarre<\/a> was my first big influence in terms of sound. My father came home one day with a cassette in 1982, with the amazing \u201cMagnetic Fields<\/a>\u201d and I fell straight in love with electronic music. But also artists like Status Quo, or Queen, or Kiss!! Also New Order, Depeche Mode, Vangelis… and of course, Mozart and Bach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have a very simple but maybe weird process:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I need silence. I usually keep myself in silence for a couple of days with no music, just \u201cwriting\u201d the main ideas of the songs in my mind. \u201cListening\u201d to the music within me. I need to have the songs 100% done in my mind before I sit myself down in the studio. As soon as I have it, I play it on the piano but also improvise around it so maybe I can naturally find a better or different way to approach this \u201cmusic\u201d that I hear in my interior. As soon as I get comfortable with it and I feel like \u201cit is myself\u201d, I start the production process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have two home studios (one in Spain and one in the US) with different gear: 4 different audio devices (2 apogee, 1 RME and 1 UAD) so I can achieve the sound that I want from each instrument. I have a piano from 1936, and a brand new amazing electric piano (Dexibell), 2 Roli Seaboard, an Ibanez electric guitar with a small amplifier, a saxophone, a 3 different Waldorf synth, the Dave Smith Prophet6, the classic Korg Prophet (also some more synth that I don\u2019t use anymore), 5 different drum machines (even though I prefer to record real drums) 4 different microphones, 4 different headphones so I can listen to the music with different perspective, 3 pairs of studio monitors, and a bunch of midi controllers and some other tools. And of course my laptop is full of virtual synths too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I come from a very small city in Spain, far from almost everywhere. So I have been working on collaborations remotely most of the time. So my process involves trying to find an easier way for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My first approach is trying to find the right chords and melodies that I am usually recording myself with the piano but I am trying to make it as much open as possible. What I mean is, that I don\u2019t want the other musician or singer to be stuck in the middle of a piece of music completely close because I want them to be involved in the process. So as soon as I have some principal idea, we start working on their parts, giving the tracks the shape, following our natural path. As soon as I have the voices, other instruments, etc is time to put myself as a producer and start editing everything. Then, I need to decide if I am going to change the structure, re-record different parts, add something new or even change the whole track!<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the end it is a very creative process, open to doing whatever needs to go because creation is improvisation. Playing live is full of improvisations so I really don\u2019t know how it is going to be at the end even when I have a clear picture in my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sure! I am 100% comfortable. I feel really confident with my emotions when I am writing music. What I need to see is if the feedback is matching what I am trying to explain. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not too much. Not everybody can understand just a simple idea or a work in progress. It is difficult to try to make someone understand your vision just with an idea. At least, the idea has to be 75% done. But there are certain people that I definitely like to share my work with because I trust them and also because they know me enough that they can understand me by just listening to four bars. But I am going to tell you: I can count these people with just the fingers of one hand \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\nExplain your creative process. Do you have a routine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What is your \u201cstudio\u201d setup?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWhat is your process when working with other people? How is collaboration different in the studio vs working remotely? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
At what point(s) are you comfortable letting other people hear what you are working on?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Do you share your work in progress (streams or downloads)? Any technical frustrations? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n