Museum Folk

‘I thought it was a project that is similar with our slogan – every sound and noise can become music. So, while I usually choose samples for music production intuitively, this time I focused on listening to and selecting samples with small details.’

‘I used ‘The Speaking Picture Book’ sample. It kind of sounded like a toy or very cute, and I used it as a background for vocals and percussion. So, I used this sample in two different ways and I think that was one of the fun parts I had during making this track. ’

‘Samples with texture, like bird cage mechanical, were interesting as they were sharp. I created rhythm using warping and panning.’

‘We mostly put every sample into sampler. For this track I made a lot of percussion elements, so I put them in samplers and then gave them delays and reverb. The Toy Drummer Bear sample I used sounded kind of like a glass sound, like a clinking sound. I really love turning samples into that kind of percussion sound.’

The song uses the theme of the Cerberus, which was a half-sunken ship near where I grew up, and I wanted to write a whimsical pop song. The genre would be under underwater pop.

‘My first thought was to preserve this melody line while working on the track. But in the end, I decided to chop this sample and put it into a sampler. Then we composed our own melody. When I listen to the sample as a whole it makes me to take a trip to the past. But when I chopped it up and listened it makes me feel mysterious, which led me to develop it into a folk-inspired melody and chord progression.’

‘The sample music box felt mysterious and exotic, like a simple folk song.’