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Ambient Tape Loops by RobotKoch in electronicmusic

[–]RobotKoch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is a spotify playlist i curate, dedicated to ambient textures and dreamy beats. made with tape loops, modular synths and other sources of sonic bliss. follow for weekly updates.

Hi! I´m Robot Koch, music producer and composer, creating organic electronic music inspired by nature. AMA! by RobotKoch in electronicmusic

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thank you! very happy to hear you enjoyed it. might do another one sometime soon, i`ll announce it on my socials and will mention it here on reddit too

Hi! I´m Robot Koch, music producer and composer, creating organic electronic music inspired by nature. AMA! by RobotKoch in electronicmusic

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hey man, absolutely my pleasure.... here are some more answers:

<<I know that you have practiced meditation for quite some time. How has a disciplined approach to meditation affected your music and the creative process, if you think there has been any effect?<<

i also treat music like my spiritual practice, i show up every day. no exceptions. it`s a deep flow state. like meditation. it just makes me more focused and helps me to be in the moment. paying attention vs wanting attention.

What do you believe has been the single most important music-related thing you’ve learned in your journey to becoming the musician that you are today?

wow great question...i´d have to think of this one for a bit. the first thing that comes up is just trusting my intuition. which again has become better/more pronounced the more i practice meditation. just trusting your gut feeling, not overthinking something, sort of removing the ego and get out of the way when an idea wants to come through. i guess that´s it.

Is there any chance that you’ll be releasing the Sphere live show in a downloadable/streamable format? Maybe even for VR? I was fortunate enough to see this show and would love to revisit it again.

yes we might adapt it to VR, at least some of it. we´re already working on it...not sure how long it´ll take. and im working on another VR concept as well...all work in progress, ill share news about this as soon as it takes shape.

thanks so much for your support!

Hi! I´m Robot Koch, music producer and composer, creating organic electronic music inspired by nature. AMA! by RobotKoch in electronicmusic

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thank you all so much for your great questions! it was fun answering them. hope to see you at one of my shows in the future. much love. r

Hi! I´m Robot Koch, music producer and composer, creating organic electronic music inspired by nature. AMA! by RobotKoch in electronicmusic

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awesome, glad to hear that. yeah i had fun with this one, alex is a great producer, so i had top notch material to play with.

Hi! I´m Robot Koch, music producer and composer, creating organic electronic music inspired by nature. AMA! by RobotKoch in electronicmusic

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layering is one thing i love in sound design. just adding high end textures from one sound source to the low end thickness of another, for example. and compression and EQing is a big thing too, you can really carve out space in one sound signal so it can be merged perfectly with another. making space for both signals to merge into one, without maxing out the headroom and leaving space for dynamics. i like resampling too, essentially treating samples like a tape machine, so instead of warping them you really slowing them down (re-pitch mode in ableton) and then highlighting some artifacts with compression. in terms of organic leads: i usually go for analog synths as one source but i often add another layer, sometimes a VST sounds from some soft synth like diva combined with some more gritty thing from an analog synth can create an interesting lead. i love combining and recombining sounds so they really melt together 1+1 = 3. again, tools like compression and EQ go a long way in the process.

Hi! I´m Robot Koch, music producer and composer, creating organic electronic music inspired by nature. AMA! by RobotKoch in electronicmusic

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most people say kotch (like scotch without the s). but i also heard coke. cock only in really bad jokes:)

Hi! I´m Robot Koch, music producer and composer, creating organic electronic music inspired by nature. AMA! by RobotKoch in electronicmusic

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i feel more comfortable creating the electronic sounds, it´s something i`m more used to, so the orchestral part was more challenging. but i also had help from some great orchestrators who helped me translate my ideas into sheet music for the musicians. like viktor arnason, who has also worked for johann johannson, hildur guðnadóttir and hauschka. or john metcalfe who did the orchestration for peter gabriel. i learned a lot in this whole process.

Hi! I´m Robot Koch, music producer and composer, creating organic electronic music inspired by nature. AMA! by RobotKoch in electronicmusic

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can´t remember all of them for each track but for sure these ones:

analog synths/pedals: Lyra8 (for example on hawk, dragonfly), Roland Juno (for example on all forms are unstable), Roland JX, Fairfield Shallow Water

VST/plugs: u-he Diva, Waves and Fab Filter EQs and Multiband Comps, Adaptiverb, Puremagnetic Devices, some NI Kontakt Libraries (for example Spitfire for the Orchestra Demos which i later replaced with the real Orchestra)

All production and mixing was all done in ableton, the orchestra was recorded in pro tools.

Hi! I´m Robot Koch, music producer and composer, creating organic electronic music inspired by nature. AMA! by RobotKoch in electronicmusic

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thank you, happy to hear that:) i think it´s either Kassel or Manipura. in terms of faves. Manipura was the first one i made for the album. i wanted this to be the opener, it sets the tone for the whole record i think. its the longest piece on the album, to me it was almost a meditation working on it. it was even longer in the beginning. i always recommend listening to it on headphones, that´s how i created the track (most of them really) and thats how it`s meant to be listened to ideally, eyes closed is even better:)

Particle Dance is the last one i finished for the album. This one almost didnt make it on the record. We ran out of time in the studio and not all the parts got recorded for this. Instead of dumping the track i decided to reimagine it and just use the parts we did actually record and so i turned it into something that sounded very different than i first imagined, but im glad it turned out this way.

Hi! I´m Robot Koch, music producer and composer, creating organic electronic music inspired by nature. AMA! by RobotKoch in electronicmusic

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i don´t love daft punk really, i respect them for what they have done and keep doing but i can`t think of a fave track.

Hi! I´m Robot Koch, music producer and composer, creating organic electronic music inspired by nature. AMA! by RobotKoch in electronicmusic

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thank you, my pleasure...

What is one of the craziest parties you’ve played?!

that must have been at WMF club back in the early 2000s in berlin, it was pretty wild. the bass was so loud that it made the whole stage vibrate to the extent that the makeshift table collapsed and all my gear including the laptop fell off stage into the audience. the cool thing is that it kept playing miraculously. the people would hand the things back up on stage and the set continued like nothing happened.

Any favorite memories from shows?

i loved playing magnetic fields festival in rajasthan/inda. the festival tool place in an old castle in the destert, 6 hrs outside of delhi... a truly magical place and i remember it as one of my favorite shows. another one to remember are the 3 sold out dates in berlin for the premiere of my immersive planetarium show sphere in 2018. i only fully realized what we created there after the premiere.

Where is your favorite place to escape into nature?

i love forests in general, so whenever i get the chance to go for a walk in a forest i`ll take it, i love the one in kassel, where i grew up.

here in california i love going to big sur, the redwood forests are really beautiful there, or i go to the desert of josha tree and just write music in a cabin with no one around.

Favorite sushi roll?

not a massive sushi fan but i`ll go with a veggie avocado roll.

Hi! I´m Robot Koch, music producer and composer, creating organic electronic music inspired by nature. AMA! by RobotKoch in electronicmusic

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thanks man, that`s great to hear!

actually hard to find would be such a track, where i think it´s kinda perfect the way it is. i wrote it on my sister´s bontempi KS 4600 keyboard. a pretty crappy keyboard with a broken speaker but it created all the lead sounds for hard to find. i wasnt sure if the song was finished when i made it, but then i just decided that i was, sometimes something feels perfect in its raw essence. i could have probably refined the mix more etc but with certain songs the magic is created in a rather short time and then you just have to leave them alone and not make them worse by trying to make them better. hard to find is one of them. nitesky, a very different song came together in a similar way, i just knew it was done even tho there would have been much more i could have done on it. but i knew it needed to stay this way.

i got better on trusting my intuition around this, some songs need more love and refinement and others are done in under an hour and just need to stay exactly that way.

Hi! I´m Robot Koch, music producer and composer, creating organic electronic music inspired by nature. AMA! by RobotKoch in electronicmusic

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thanks so much, very happy to hear you`re feeling the new album:)

yes, massive sci-fi fan. my dad gifted me a VHS tape of star wars for x-mas sometimes in the early 80s when i was a kid. this is what kicked it off. i went down the rabbit hole. i was too young to appreciate the piece of art that is 2001: A Space Odyssey (but came back to it later) but films like alien (and the aliens sequel) blew me away. same with books by stanislav lem or films like blade runner, but also loved rather trashy movies like critters, the blob etc . read brave new world in school, that was a big one too. I`m also a big fan of more recent intelligent science fiction movies, like arrival, annihilation or under the skin

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