Erika from Interdimensional Transmissions shares her workflow with analog Synthesizers (SH-101 …) in the new Red Bull Music Academy video
Every musician use analog and digital Synthesizers in a different way. Some of them use them for creating sonic textures that goes “in your faces”, other only to add a different timbre to a track. The team of Red Bull Music Academy visited the electronic musician Erika from Interdimensional Transmissions in her studio.
She describes nicely how she use the Roland SH-101 Synthesizer and other instruments in the live performances.
Erika & The Roland SH-101 Synthesizer
In this episode of Studio Science, recorded in her home studio in Detroit, Erika uses the same Roland SH-101 synthesizer she was first tasked with upon joining Ectomorph two decades ago to break down her approach to analog synthesis. She details how synthesis lies at the root of her creative process and explains how she uses it to create sketches of songs, as well as improvised performances. From an early age, Erika showed an affinity for technology and using it to express herself. At age 13 she was running a Bulletin Board System from her bedroom.
In 1997, after moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan, she joined local techno outfit Ectomorph and “went to bootcamp,” as she recalls, learning about programming and performing live electronic music. Two years later, in 1999, she set up erika.net, a freeform streaming radio station that ran for 17 years. Today, the producer and musician continues to perform and release music both on her own and as one-half of Ectomorph alongside Brendan M. Gillen, with whom she also runs the Interdimensional Transmissions label. The Red Bull Music Academy is a global music institution committed to fostering creativity in music.
We celebrate music, its culture, and the transformative minds behind it. Begun in 1998, the Academy has taken the core principles that underlie its annual workshop for selected participants and applied this curatorial approach to events, lectures, and city-wide festivals throughout the year.
More information here: Red Bull Music Academy
Be the first to comment