I work with artists and people from all different walks. Many want mixing services, others want production work. Some just find that having me around is a good omen or that they needed a few casual conversations. Not only have I been at practice for 20+ years with music and art, I also have been at practice in building relationships and trust with people. This is still a practice of mine daily. I’ve met artist in all sorts of different circumstances. From comment threads, the middle of grocery store, a bump into at a bar, etc.
I haven’t ever built fascination over a person by what kind of stature I imagine I could pull from them. I’m of the belief that after meeting someone, remnants of their spirit are left behind. Often there’s a shelf life for how long it lingers. Sometimes it’s a few minutes, hours, sometimes its days. I use that invisible matter to create ideas. Creative ideas. Surely not every time, but I may be in the middle of creating and that person flashes through my montage of thoughts. Be it strange, but I find it to be apart of my wondrous and weird creative process. Even if the appearance of the person has nothing to do with what is being created, it’s still useful matter.
I’m a meticulous but mercurial creator in the throes of the creative process or as an everyday person interacting with the environments and others around me. I do have my guard rails, so it isn’t all freedom. I’m obsessed with my craft. I’m always trying to find new ways to love it all over again. It’s hardly ever just “making a beat” or “mixing a song”, it’s an experience. A ritual. A conversion of a mental entanglement.
I deem myself a personable person with an interest in how the mind (and later the emotions) of a person operates. I don’t like to reduce people to being just “clients”, although the reality is, sometimes that’s all that was needed for us to be. I have those cut and dry relationships too. They desire a mixed record, they send me the song, I mix, they review, and we move on. For the rest, sometimes an evolved partnership happens. I learn what it is that excites your mind, memes you like, things you hate. You learn not to send me a plethora of unnamed tracks (joke). I love laughter and fellowship with like-minded (and even unlike minded) individuals. Some say I’m smooth and quiet. Some say I’m deadpan, serious, but funny.
I think I’m all of those things at a point plus more things you’ll like.
Yes, your product matters and that’s what you’ll be here with me for, but I’m hardly worried about the quality of work I will service you, that is a must. If it isn’t up to your standard, I have no problem working till it pains me in order to fulfill a service or simply return your monetary submission. I don’t suspect that will ever be our circumstance.
I’m hoping to find out more about you and why you create how you do!