Yeah – I do that. Creating music – and doing voiceovers.
Being the founder and director of your own media company has some of its perks and advantages.
My father bought me my first guitar at the age of 13, and started writing my first songs around then. From then on it blew into a full-grown passion over the years, and then I finally got into production and engineering – around 1993.
From my humble beginnings sweating it out over a modest 4-track cassette recorder in my basement under the stairs in the middle of the night (because everyone was sleeping), I learned how to record, arrange, and produce music, and have been involved as producer, songwriter, musician, music arranger and singer.
I play a few instruments – guitar, blues harps, percussion, some keyboards and some sitar.
I record my music at my studio, called Audio Curry. Yes, it’s an unusual name, and there is a reason: you know the obvious reasons for the ‘audio part’ of it, but the ‘curry’ bit comes because of India. Go figure!
I don’t have a particular genre that I stick to, but I look at each song as a separate entity in itself, and give it the treatment it deserves.
Technically – I work in Sonar (apologies to Pro Tools users) – and I find it is very musical as a software, and I love the speed with which it responds. I also use Reason and a host of other VSTi synths, and samplers.
If you want to hear some of my productions, you can click here.