I think, looking back at it, that blending “Folk writing” with “Electronic Music”, has been my main goal as an artist for almost as long as I started writing music. Not exactly by vocation more than it is by accident and a result of both who I am as a human being and who I aspire to become. Most of what I did was trying to find a sweet spot between very rich instrumentation seemlessly blending entirely electronic landscapes with more traditionnal acoustic instruments (I come from a very classical music background, and it took a while for me to accept it as a part of my work, as it’s a part of my education I didn’t particularly enjoy). Electronic music on the other end, is what drew me into making music as a full time thing, and it’s also what connected the scientific part of my brain to the creative one, what allowed them to communicate in some way. I won’t go into the details here because it’s probably not that interesting and I don’t have that much time, but yeah, blending folk (or more traditionnal acoustic instrument) writing with electronic music has been my thing for a while now. Hope it doesn’t feel too self centered to you all that I post a few examples of how that turned out over the years.
Here’s a music I wrote for a videogame that was originally a folk song and turned out to be like this :
Here’s another old track that I think blends interestingly folk material with electronic instrumentations :
Here’s a more recent take on the matter with my actual solo project :
But it’s more or less all the time. Sometimes the acoustic instruments just turn themselves into samples or textures, like the piano in this one, and sometimes it’s the electronic landscape that just sits in the back and let the folk breath to allow some more traditional writing / singing.
Hope it was relevant to the discussion !
