My wife had the best description of my music: “it sounds like giant alien insects gnawing on metal”. Its funny I often have been asked that question recently, and I usually tell people that my music is a hybrid between Acousmatic electro acoustic music, and rhythmically structured sound effects. How would you describe your music today to someone who thinks they listen to everything, but in fact only follow the latest pop trends?

I also got a few analogue mono synths like the SH-101, Arp Odyssey, and then got the Arp-2600 which was a bit turning point for me in learning about sound shaping and design. It was a great choice in terms of learning the basics about sound and also taught me to listen for things that could be used in a composition. It had lots of interesting features, key-groups, envelopes, basic digital synthesis, filters, various waveforms, plus on board sample editing capabilities etc. I had my heart on getting a sampler first so I could learn the basics about how to manipulate sound. My first piece of gear was Akai S3200 sampler. I knew at this point that I wanted to make this type of music. I began the search to find more tracks by him and other artists in this style, getting the Analog Bubble Bath Vol-3 and early Caustic Window records. I was completely blown away by that track. I got the “Mindstream” EP, of Meat Beat Manifesto, which had an Aphex Twin remix on it. I was doing lots of DJ sets, with early Warp and Rephlex records. I was buying a lot of records during this time. I was 16th years old when I first started building up a studio. I got into composing electronic music back in high school. Can you tell us how you got involved in composing, and what was your very first piece of gear? Devine is a sought out artisan and wizard of modular and DSP sound design, so it is a true honor to take a peak into his impressive studio, and share his thoughts on the process, working environment, and more! Enjoy! As a sound designer, he’s created patches for Korg, Native Instruments, Clavia, and most recently film, video games and many other hardware devices. In August of 2013 he released The Electronic Music Manuscript : A Richard Devine Collection – a construction kit for Sony’s Sound Series. Richard Devine is an electronic musician releasing on Warp, Schematic, Sublight and Detroit Underground among the many labels.

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