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Fourth Ground
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This was the final project we made for MAT 111MC, which for me was a deep, dark production. All the sounds come from Ryan's sound library (klotho) that he made. Then, using Google Colab, we used those sounds and coded arrangements of those sounds, and did some mixing in the Colab Notebook itself. I used a synth that Ryan provided outside of the sound library, and with that, created the dark, low, spacey drone. Then I grabbed the sounds that I arranged in the Colab Notebook as samples, and then made the full piece in FL Studio. It is fully produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by me. I took inspiration from other producers like Popilization, ssongbirdssing, orchead420, and it's a style of production I have never explored before, which is why I wanted to make it.
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I'll Call On Your Name
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This track is a purely instrumental track that I made in FL studio, arranged, engineered, mixed, and mastered by me. The main melody is a instrumental guitar from the song "and the rest..." by yoshi douglas, where it is reversed, different filters, which makes the original sample unrecognizable. This is my first fully produced song with a sampled element that persists through the song, and where I sample other movie vocals. The old TV sound effects that are scattered throughout give this beat a blippy, retro atmosphere.
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Coward Music Video
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"Coward" is a song that I wrote the lyrics to, performed, mixed, and mastered by me in FL Studio. The guitar instrumental was made by a different producer. The song was made in a darker place for me, and the aesthetic I built for this is a representation of that. The music video consists of clips I took around the Isla Vista area because of how foggy the coast can get. I edited the video in Cap Cut. I made this solely for me; it means a lot to me and was very representative of my mental health and where I was in life. This song's alternate title was "Diary Entry Number 3" to illustrate the personal nature of this song.
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Foreground
My name is Nicholas Taylor and I am a producer and visual artist in Goleta, California. I am currently an Applied Mathematics student at University of California, Santa Barbara, and I am minoring in Media Arts & Design. Math, music, and nature all play such integral parts of my life, and I my hope is you experience a little of all of it looking through here. Reach me at my email below.