what resources do you use?
i've been using Bitwig Studio Edition for a DAW. for the most part i stick with stock tools such as: polymer, delay+, filter+ (for the easily accessible waveshaper), reverb, "tool", are all the main tools i use. as well as audiotool and openDAW sometimes. i use vsts when i can't get a sound i want from the stock tools such as...
- MAIM - "MAIM is the plugin for you if you want the sound of MP3 compression"
- allpassphase - weird allpass filter that smears the signal
- SpectralSuite - minimal and basic spectral manipulation tools
- Dblue Glitch - i mostly use this for the retrigger effect
- Melodyne - "Melodyne grants you unrivaled access to all the musical details in your recordings and samples – note by note."
this isn't an extensive list as i'm always experimenting with new tools. i have my eyes set on trying FL next and i'm experimenting with new ways to create glitchy sounds with software like SoundThread and polynodes
as for samples: i don't actually use them that often but i record myself playing the viola, singing and do a few field recordings. i also have the bitwig stock samples, halley labs resource center and whatever random sample packs i can find like the Blu Mar Ten sample pack.
who inspires you?
in no particular order - currently as of 2025...
- metaroom
- AQUASINE
- HALLEY LABS
- Machine Code (or current value, but i love the duo better)
- Djrum
- Floating Points
- Squarepusher
- Barker
- Arthur Hnatek
- Tessela
- peakssound
- gonima
- DJ HEADWOUND
- Skee Mask
- medasin
- G Jones
- Telefon Tel Aviv
- Dorian Concept
- LCD Soundsystem
- Portico Quartet
- Tom Place
- qebrus
- Machine Girl
previously, no more. but still awesome artists to check out.
what instruments do you have?
for organic stuff i have a viola and upright piano which both cost a fortune and suck at playing lol. i have a few other hardware synths which is a growing collection.. so far i have td-3-mo, arturia drumbrute impact. a few modular synth stuffs like maths, vector wave, moon phase filter. but i barely touch my modular stuff since its not versatile yet and it's an expensive as hell hobby. planning to get a 909 synth next and maybe try modular again at some point.
what genre are you making?
TBH i don't really know myself hehe. i like to think it lies somewhere inside the idm/braindance space but my music takes a lot of inspiration from dub, techno, acid, jazz, dance music and a lot of fucking around + having fun with my tools. my style of music seems to change every year as i get bored of my habits and i get inspired by new things
find/support my music on bandcamp, but if you just want to listen, here's a few of the things i'm most proud of below
/// CATALOG ///
flourish start
the first album where i feel like i finally took music seriously for once and figured out what i want to do with my life. i had so much fun working on this thing, staying up late and working on my new branding, cover art and pouring my soul into the music. at the time i was experimenting and learning how to use bitwig studio and i fell in love with the DAW since it was so much more powerful than the web-based daw i've been making music on for years. i still couldn't let myself totally abandon audiotool though. i ended up making half the tracks on bitwig and half the tracks on audiotool. i set myself a deadline to finish this album on a specific date since i thought i might end up putting it through development hell and i just wanted to make something cool to show for the internet. in hindsight it was probably a good idea since i kept thinking i could do better than the first tracks i ever made for this album.
looking back now after a year and a half, i kinda think the album is mid hahahh. the sound design isn't that good compared to what i am up to nowadays and the covers are weird but the structure of the tracks is cool and its a nice album. it served my original goal of just proving to myself i could gather all my energy to create something while also enjoying the process. the end result was either going to be good or bad and that is ok to me.
after all this time, i still think septa is my most favorite track. it's got such a lovely rythm and melody. and the overall sound design is pretty cool !!
test1
this track was created from the momentum i had after i finished my first album as kanaris "flourish start"... i was totally lost. i finished a major project and what felt like a huge milestone in my life. i kept checking my socials
after completing this track i felt the same way again, browsing socials and waiting for it to go viral but alas. time to keep my head down again.
up/down
a collection of tracks i've made from spring of 2025 to summer of 2025. the style is a lot different to what i've done as kanaris and this album sees new styles and calls back to my original root styles. at this point it's been a year since i uploaded my last big thing and i really wanted to make another album so i collected 80 minutes of the best things i've made from 2025 and quickly packaged it into a CD and bandcamp upload. no fancy per-track covers. the music is objectively better than flourish start in my opinion, i enjoy the sounds and stories more. i announced this to the public but i didn't get as big as a response from flourish start. hmm, oh well. thats okay, i didn't put much effort into sharing this track with outsiders.
the album is called up/down since i kinda wanted this to be a sonic diary of my life during the creation of these tracks. i've been going through a sort of depression that is still going. not entirely sure what it is but it also seems like it was always there and the previous things i've been working and distracting myself with just temporarily hid this feeling. i've also just been job hopping quite a lot this year as i try to figure out a way to get a career i enjoy while also making time to do my art. which has also put me in a bit of a debt situation since i have been struggling to find a decent job. i feel better than i was before and i do have a job now which i semi enjoy but it's still a rough road. hopefully i can make a living from art one day. but that seems like a long ways away from here at the moment.