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godivala
Guy Godivala
music producer / musician / sound artist
most recent project:
Read about this project here.
about me
Hello! I'm Guy Godivala, a young music producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter based in London/York studying Electronic Music at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I have experience in studios, session drumming, and playing in bands.
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I'm currently working on music for game audio for an indie game. My music ranges from electronic music, popular music, game music, immersive music projects, and orchestration. To view all my favourite works check out my portfolio page.
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To contact me, click here.
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Below are a few musical technical exercise projects I've done, so you can hear a small insight into my musical adventures...
sequencing
This portfolio piece as part of my studies focused on modern influence vs old school sequencers and sequencing methods.
The piece is named after RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer (the first ever programmable synthesiser) which was nicknamed ‘Victor’, the main melodic synth in my track is loosely inspired by the natural flute-like, slow-attack, filtered sound this synthesiser has.
Old School Common Sequencing aspects:
Roland TB-303 Inspired synth, instead of using the sound as a bass, I used it as a lead. The sound of this synth was also inspired by Raymond Scott’s early sequencers and timbres.
808 Drums, sequenced using my Maschine hardware and software and that’s looped/sequenced throughout (Grid-Based step sequencing).
I have a physical MK-100 synthesiser from the 90s, which has in-built sequencer, I use this in the middle section. On the synth its called ‘Music programmer’ and it just plays back what you played unquantized, this is great for a slightly out of time loop.
Modern Sequencing techniques:
Ableton’s inbuilt MIDI polyrhythm generator – I started loops simple, and then slowly adding more notes, and slowly altering rhythms pushing them off grid and using polyrhythms, J Dilla inspired (off-grid vs on-grid).
The structure is also inspired by Britpop – A.G. Cook, constantly adding parts and developing them, in my list of inspiration tracks, this was very much a constant theme of what I thought good sequence-focused music was.
Ableton’s in-built ‘Beat-Repeat’ plugin, on the 808 drums, means that it can randomly repeat the drum hits, does this count as sequencing? I’d say yes since it is the process of arranging musical notes in a specific order, even though it’s slightly randomised.
field recording / noise art
Here's something a lil weirder.