AIR 023 / Electric Indigo by AIR published on 2020-04-15T10:18:04Z Joining me this month for our first ever episode recorded remotely is Austrian DJ and producer Susanne Kirchmayr, also known as Electric @Indigo. Susanne has a long history with sound and creativity, performing live in unique spaces and in unique ways that showcase her often avant-garde listening music, while in the studio, she’s known for her use of techniques like granular synthesis to manipulate voices into music. In this conversation, we delve into experimentalism and how it influences her unique approach to music. ++ Music: Electric Indigo - "Ferrum 5" Audio treatment by Airlock Audio Genre Podcast Comment by ‡Starving Poet§ 🌹 2020-06-17T00:42:45Z Comment by stmmtoy thanks for this episode! 2020-04-15T11:44:51Z Comment by AIR "In a live performance, using certain speakers and certain speaker set ups and how the speakers are directed is very interesting — and astonishing sometimes because there are so many acoustic effects that are sometimes not so easy to predict. You just find out when you set them up." 2020-04-15T11:41:11Z Comment by AIR "Granular synthesis takes little parts of audio, the so-called grains and re-arranges them to something that becomes a proper sound. Once you start to layer these grains then it starts to become a real sound, and the raw material therefore can be something that has little to do on the surface with what comes out of it." 2020-04-15T11:37:21Z Comment by AIR "My tools have changed, for sure. I’m constantly trying to learn new equipment and new ways to create. I get more use out of the stuff I adopted earlier, I’m immediately trying to refine and trying to find additional tools… The search for sounds is always there." 2020-04-15T11:33:45Z Comment by AIR "I found it very rewarding to restrict myself, to see what I can do with limitations. That’s more rewarding than to go criss-cross through all the possibilities you usually have." 2020-04-15T11:20:26Z
