Featured Artist 54
Teqtoniq
Arjun Sharma
In his past four years on Audiotool Teqtoniq has made some kind of a fairytale career. From his beginnings as a comparative novice in production to one of the most successful and inspiring artists on the website. Hardly a week goes by without one of his tracks at higher places in the charts. Whereby he plays on the claviature of contemporary electronic music as if he never did anything else before.
Interview
Arjun Sharma Place: Toronto, Ontario Age: 18 Profession: I'm studying Biochemistry at McMaster University.
- Musical Style
- One of the things I'm most proud of is that I feel like I'm able to work on music from a wide variety of styles and genres. I love to play around with hybrid genres, and I enjoy pulling influences from all over the place - jazz, EDM, classical, movie OSTs, whatever.
- Musical Background
- I've been classically trained in piano since I was about eight or nine, in addition to studying music theory. I've also played viola for 7 years in both small chamber groups and larger orchestras. And sometimes I play around with a guitar.
- Started making music
- I've been listening to electronic music all my life. I guess it was only natural for me to start playing around with the idea of trying to make it myself, so I started looking at free DAW options around 2008-2010, when I fooled around on a site called Splice Music (where I first used the trance10 username).
- On Audiotool
- When the original Splice Music went down around 2011, I started looking for alternatives, and the visual layout of the Audiotool app at the time was pretty similar to Splice Music's layout. I decided to try a few things out. At first I just played around with loops, but then I started to play with the Pulv and it kind of snowballed from there. I would go over to my grandparents' house and just sit upstairs for hours working on music on crappy speakers - but it just captivated me.
