Featured Artist 69
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Aaron Schäfer
When in 2012 a young man called "Erdbeerquark" (strawberry curd) entered the Audiotool stage a murmur went through the virtual crowd. His very first piece went straight into the track feature of the old website. His chilled Downbeat tunes are always spot on. His atmosphere constructions enriched with his surrealistic guitar sounds draw the listener under their spell leaving behind a blissful sense of contentment.
Interview
Aaron Schäfer Place: Berlin, Germany Age: 19 Profession: I am Studying Music-Technology/Sound Engineering in Berlin.
- Musical Style
- Many people call my music "Ambient" and I agree to some points. Maybe because of my guitar atmospheres. But all in all it's different to real Ambient. It's hard to define my style, I would call it Chill, Deep, Experimental. This year I have started to record my electric-guitar and I love playing around with it. A huge inspiration to me was Eivind Aarset (a Scandinavian guitar player). He always makes those big room sized guitars with a lot of reverb, which brings an awesome atmosphere. I also love working with vocals. I am not very good with the AT synths, mostly I use them in a really simple way for some sub bass, for example. Inspiration: Olaf. He makes awesome beats. And I love his guitars. Even he hasn't published any tracks in the last 2 Years on Audiotool. He is still one of my favorite Audiotool Artists.
- Musical Background
- I started making music when I was about 12. I played the guitar and sang in a school rockband, Just for fun. I was into Nu-Metal, Rock, and Brit Pop at that age but my music tastechanged when I found out about Audiotool in 2012. My Father told me about Audiotool. And I just went ahead. I didn't have any experience with DAWs. But here Audiotool helped me to get into it really fast. And I learned so much from others in the Community. Just because of Audiotool, I started listening to electronic music. But I always wanted to bring something natural into my music. So I started recording my own guitar lines. I hope to get better soon.
- Message to the community
- I think Audiotool is the perfect place to have fun and let your creativity run wild, and I've found there are so many things you can do with electronic music that you can't with the classical approach to writing music for instruments and stuff. When you're writing electronic music I would advise you to listen to lots of different electronic artists and also listen to classical music. Listening to electronic music really helps me find inspiration for different sounds I could make, different textures and stuff, and the classical music helps me with the actual compositional technique; I try to get into the composers head and wonder what they were thinking, why they are doing what they are doing with the music. Just listen and learn from what is out there, keep doing it until you get better and above all have fun. :)
