Voices #41
◦ “voices” is the place where we ask, artists reply and you read.
here we got:
RAUSTE
answering some questions. We have already observed his drone / ambient / experimental work here.
[1. IDEA]
■ The A. O.: The track from “Never started never ended” that we prefer is “5 steps”. Can you tell us how it came to light?
► RAUSTE: I needed to close my EP, and I wanted to end it with a positive note especially because the rest of the EP is quite dark in the way it was conceived. I needed some hope. I remembered an old video I took of my son, who was 4 years old at the time, playing the piano for the very first time: 5 notes, 5 movements, 5 steps to a new world. (Fun fact: today, years later, that world completely belongs to him.)
The melody was already there; I just needed to shape it the way I liked by creating different samples, working on pitch, reverse effects, and so on.
The final touch, the element that gives the sequence its unity, is the sampled birds and wind chimes. For this, I have to thank the artist Lonetapes, who kindly shared these sounds with the whole community.
[2. CREATION]
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