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EVENT
HORIZON
EVENT HORIZON

CyberPunk

for electronics

uturistic, sci-fi, industrial
and dystopic; in oth-
Fer words, Cyberpunk.
Those were my thoughts
whilst writing this piece. In
other to evoke such charac-
teristics, I opted to write for
mostly synthesizers, as they This piece presented
can offer greater sound ma- me a new challenge: to com-
nipulation and at the same pletely write a piece from
time bring a futuristic and scratch in a Digital Audio
sci-fi sound to the piece. Workstation, disregarding

any elements of score nota-
tion. In other words, the focus
was on the sounds used and
the soundscape which was
being created with the differ-
ent synthesizers and virtual
instruments. I was confused
and lost at first as I was not
able to think in terms of how
a score would look like. Trying
to think of that did not lead
me anywhere. Being frus-
This was the first piece trated with that, I decided to
in which I explored sound eliminate it from my thoughts
synthesis more in depth as and instead, focus my efforts
well manipulating other el- on this new approach to mu-
ements which would not be sic writing. What interested
possible to explore within a me the most when working
normal performance (such as on this piece as well as in a
manipulating the stereo field DAW, was the possibility of
in a continuous manner). This manipulating the stereo field
piece allowed me to become and how a sound could grad-
more aware of the termi- ually travel from left to right
nology used whilst creating and vice-versa.
a new sound in synthesizer.
Ultimately, I was able to com-
prehend what each element
(LFOs, Envelopes, Filters…)
were and how they were af-
fecting the sound I was cre-
ating.