Newsletter Twenty-Two

Four electro-industrial singles...

Music was something I’ve wanted to create ever since I was a little girl. After piano lessons and guitar lessons and voice lessons, my talents turned into a love of mine that I’d always wanted to share. They needed to be honed and turned into something usable. I’d always loved writing lyrics, melodies, and trying to mold them into a song on guitar. I wrote sheet music after sheet music for piano.

The one thing is, the thing I never really understood until I was older, was the thing about recording studios. I don’t have one, and I don’t have access to one, and even if I did have access to one, I wouldn’t have access to the other necessities that would allow me to craft a song in an actual studio.

So, I opened up a music creator app one day, and I started playing with loops. I played with them until it felt natural. Then, I discovered the musical typing keyboard, and figured out how to write music using the instruments already in that application. I learned how to change, morph, and turn these instruments into sounds I wanted to use.

All throughout my learning process, I’d been writing songs with it.

This process, sitting at my computer and putting together songs, no longer really using loops, became a huge part of who I am as an artist. I’ve always loved artists like kidneythieves, i:scintilla, and android lust, among many albums, including Too Dark Park from Skinny Puppy. They cemented the electro-industrial sound into me. This genre always sounded like it was written for horror movies. I loved it, and I still love it.

I might not have access to a studio, but I do have access to a computer, filled with sounds and a musical keyboard where all I have to do is type out what I want to hear. All I have to do is press ‘record’ and figure out how things sound, and, once they are where I want them to be, finish another song.

There are four singles that I’d written over the past three years.

Writing music has become more and more a part of me, and so has this electro-industrial genre.

It might not have been what I imagined, or saw, myself doing ten or fifteen years ago, but I have a basement where I can pound out improv piano… and I have a computer where I can type out music. That’s what matters the most to me: the ability to do what I love to do because I love to do it. It might not be happening the way I dreamed it, but writing music will always be a part of me, and, sometimes the dream has to change so you can do what you love.

If you love to do something, there’s normally more than one way to do that thing. I found my way to being able to write music, and it’s a way where all I need is my computer, the application I’ve been using, and a musical keyboard where all I have to do is type out on my computer the notes and sounds I’m recording.

I’m not going to stop writing music just because the way I’m doing it doesn’t match the way, ‘it should be done’. I’m going to write music because I love to, and because I found a way to be able to, and because I’ve always loved electro-industrial, which is exactly what I’m writing.

There are four singles that have been released on Armida Warrior for a while. Those same singles are now on SoundCloud. If you like my work, I hope you follow my socials and subscribe to this newsletter. I also hope you mosey on over to Armida Warrior and have fun meandering through everything that is already there.

For anyone who has ever had a dream, thank you.

Cheers,

Armida