Hey - thanks for visiting my humble website. I haven't added any sub-menus yet, the reason being that I doubt I have enough material yet. I'm sure that will change soon enough. I have planned at least a links section and a news section. It would perhaps also be nice to get some kind of forum going, and a guestbook - most likely I won't need both :) I'm currently studying musicology at the University in Oslo. I like jazz piano a lot, but on this site you'll mostly find info about my edm projects.
December 10th, 2009: "Perfect Sky" has been released on S107 Recordings and has entered the Beatport trance top100 list. I have also finished a track with Susana that will hopefully be released on her album on Armada early next year! WHoopa!
November 17th, 2009: My single collaboration with Raz Nitzan featuring Maria Nayler - "Perfect Skyt" is coming out on Armada soon. So far there's an excellent remix by renown producer and dj Max Graham - more remixes will follow. Check out some clips on Youtube if you wanna hear what it sounds like on the Universal Religion 4 compilation or in the mix on the radio.
September 28th, 2009: I did a 3track ep for the new label Workout - tracks are called Pitch That, Tune This, and Butterflies. The release was featured on Beatport. Now it's available from all digital stores.
June 10th, 2009: My tune "Small Talk" has just been released on Baroque's sister label Method. It's out on 12" and as a digital mp3 file on Beatport exclusively. Method decided to make the 12" release into a split, so the b side features a track by Alex Costa. If anyone is curious, the main arp was done with NI FM8 and the bassline was made with NI Massive. Feel free to drop me a line if you have some thoughts on how it sounds!
June 12th, 2009: Working on a new track that I think will be a follow-up single on Method, but really don't know yet... At this point it doesn't
have a real title, it's just called "Track 04", but beyond that, it's actually about 90% done! I don't think I've ever come this far
without having come up with a song title yet. I think it still sounds like me, but the style is a little less "prog house". Stay tuned.
July 20th, 2009: I've started working with songwriter Raz Nitzan on a collaboration. I've been looking forward to doing this project for a very long time and I hope it will turn out nicely. Stay tuned for more updates.
July 21st, 2009: Working on some more tracks to go along with the track I had intended as a follow-up single for Method. That might be released on different Baroque label. Time will tell. I'm inspired! Also bought some Fabfilter plugins. Volcano 2, Timefilter2 and Twin2. Very nice package!
Some older hardware synths include: Novation Drumstation, Novation Nova.
I'm a big fan of the synth Massive by Native Instruments. I've been writing my own sounds for Massive over the last couple of months, and I'm planning on sharing those patches with people who might be interested,
so I need to get a download section as well. Sounds will be free to download! Programming sounds is hard. Sometimes you just stumble upon something cool by chance and you think you've learned the art of sound design, but then, the next day,
all you can come up with is a sine wave with a pitch enevelope HAHA and you're like - jesus, I have no talent. So it's a tedious process... :)
Massive is a wavetable synth, which means it's got a wide palette of waveform images instead of just the good old square, sine, sawtooth, etc. Massive also lets you morph between different waveforms, thus creating even more waveforms.
It's also got a modulation oscillator, which is a lot like an lfo, except the mod osc can oscillate a lot faster; this is like in FM synthesis, frequency modulation; it's fast, and it allows you to create effects that aren't possible with
usual lfo's.
Feel free to drop me an e-mail if you have something on your mind
I'm on myspace, just like everyone else...
myspace/espeng