Andrulian

I started out using Caustic, the Android music creation tool and I still use it occasionally from time to time. I moved onto Ableton Live Lite 8, the 'I, Improvised 3' project inspired an album created with one take recording which can be found on my Bandcamp page.

It has limitations I thought were too crippling to create full songs but you just need to be a bit creative. True it's a compromise but it goes to show you can still make music even with these software limitations.

I've since moved onto using Mulab 6 and more recently Usine Hollyhock II which isn't like a traditional DAW, it's more aimed at live performance. It is incredibly powerful with a wealth of samplers, granulators, glitch tools, groove machines and physics engines. It's also a totally modular environment.

As well as synthesizing sounds, field recordings or found sounds hold a particular fascination in the way they can capture a unique moment resulting in sounds that cannot be synthesized.

The tools in Hollyhock allow me to dissect these sounds, making them non-linear which kind of takes them outside of time to give a different perspective."