Kiana Li

gyrofield Patreon August '24 Samples

 Hi! Welcome to August, exciting times ahead as I gear up to release my next project.

This month of samples is inspired by another collection of works-in-progress. Keeping it playful yet functional with looping reversing stumbling percussive sequences built up to full loops, designed oneshot drums, and naturalistic...

Oh Brightly They Led (2024 Remaster) (Track Drop)

While I was planning for my NTS Residency I trawled through old folders for forgotten gems. There was something quite charming, cyberpunk gothic, about this club track I wrote back in 2020. Having been part of a collection that included the infamous 'Pumping' and 'Gutenberg' briefly it ended up collecting dust since.

Th...

Patreon Archive Packs uploaded!

Hi all, I've just returned from a four-day trip around Brussels and for Audioriver Festival, latter of which was sadly cancelled and evacuated due to weather conditions. Big thanks to everyone I met out there regardless and hope to see more of you at my Netherlands dates next week!

I've brought out seven older tu...

All About Bass (Part I)

This has been a long awaited tutorial for my Patreon supporters, but they might be surprised by the route I've taken on this 90-minute masterclass on all things low-end.

I wanted to put forward an accessible yet detailed perspective on creating bass,  as a paradigm of adding and subtracting frequencies and signals....

All About Bass (Part II)

Here is the Patreon Exclusive second part of the bass design masterclass. This part delves into basslines I've written for tracks unreleased and released, in context with their respective drumloops. This will hopefully show the complete picture of the rhythm section and legitimize decisions made in the mixing & writing. I...

Patreon Tutorial #18 - All About Bass

Hi all, as I've got a busy month ahead I've decided to kick into gear and prepare for you (finally) my masterclass on bass & bass design for dance music.

The aim is to keep it accessible to viewers of all levels of knowledge, focus on the fundamentals of the low end, and show sound design & arrangement insights ...

Question about my upcoming Patreon store...

Hi all, I've decided to bring back a pack containing the best of my older samples & music.

How much would you be willing to pay for a pack of about 240 samples containing mainly sequences of drums, synths, bass & fx?

Generations (Patreon Exclusive)

A transportive cut of astral jungle with playful synths among samples among drums. This one was an ugly duckling out of all my unreleased tracks, but it's been given a good balance of weight and colour in the mix and finished up for bright summer days.

Alternate download:
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gyrofield Patreon July '24 Samples

Keeping it simple but evocative this month with a dose of drum hits/loops, bass hits/loops, and synthlines. Gritty and warmed through but hopefully still very functional for building out ideas, writing instrument or even vocal parts on top.

Talk Up (gyrofield's Tooth & Nail Mix) (Track Breakdown)

Hi all, this remix ended up being quite interesting to delve into as it involved a lot of hardware parts, recordings, & using digital tools to trace over the musical characteristics of those recorded bass & fx sounds. One hour of ideas, how to use certain plugins, why I use certain plugins, and mixing bits - it's defi...

Patreon Hangout #17 - Talk Up Remix Breakdown

Back in October I was approached by Kasra for a remix of my choice off his album 'Dream Metal'. Two versions later I wrapped this remix in late January, which landed somewhere between a 00s grime fever dream and hard techno.

In this next session I'll be showing all the sound design pieces, samples and stylistic mixing ...

gyrofield pres. Field Research (w/ PEROXIIDE)

Tomorrow is the first broadcast for my residency at NTS and I'm really thrilled to kick it off with my good friends at PEROXIIDE. 60 minutes of Autonomic-Footwork-Junglist Aerospace Exploration!

I'm also doing a little hangout for the broadcast of my NTS Residency, starting 15 minutes before the broadcast! Come hang wit...

gyrofield Patreon June '24 Samples

We've reached two years of Patreon! I might put up something special to celebrate.

But first we have more samples for your use. Some really functional loop layers that are extractable with phase cancellation, some low end oddities made using my Korg Monologue, and for the first time ever polyphonic melodic samples with ...

'Temper' (Patreon Exclusive)

I wrote this one for therapeutic purposes during last October. A sort of mesmerizing collage of washboard drums, cozy rhodes keyboards and spaced-out synth bass and lead.

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Patreon Samples Demo Reel

Hi all, if you're looking for more reasons to join the Patreon besides exclusive tracks, 12+ hours of tutorials, and behind the scenes content, here's a little reel of some samples I've created over the past 6 months!

My idea with samples is to get in as much inspiring detail and intrigue into them while still allowing...

Noisecraft (Synthesis focused on noise)

Rationale:

• A tonally destructive way of synthesis can open up new possibilities and bring about unique textures

• Understanding and harnessing the processing behind atonal synthesis can allow for musical objects that constantly change and morph

• Using compression, filtering, delays,...

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Patreon Tutorial Session #16 Demo Track

Titled 'Northprecession'.

A little sneak peek to the chaotic unpredictable noise fuckery I'll be showing you tomorrow. Make sure to join the discord for it!

All instances are live Serum's with zero to moderate post-processing.

Hope you like it!

Patreon Tutorial Session #16 - Noisecraft

As promised, I'm bringing you a detailed look into digital synthesis using noise sources for my next session held on Discord.

22nd May, 21:00 BST, 16:00 EDT, 07:00 AEDT.
https://discord.com/events/657794462365384724/...

Disclosure - BOSS (gyrofield Mix) (Track Breakdown)

In this re-recorded segment originally held in the last Patreon hangout, I sift through a disco-inspired drum loop with a fine toothed comb, talking about the details of sample selection and arrangement, breaking out of the pre-made grooves of samples, setting up a space for your drums to function as one instrument.

The...

Bao - 52-Hearts (gyrofield Remix) (Remaster)

I took a little time today reminiscing on my old "shitpost era" works, the reckless silly energy I had, and was growing out of during the pandemic years.

I wanted to shed some light on a track I wrote in January 2022. It was very tongue in cheek and the original version I posted as a Patreon exclusive in July 2022 had ...

Antiprojection (Patreon Exclusive)

'Antiprojection' has been in my sets for nearly a year, and was written for a now-scrapped project. A simple but effective cut of club-electro that has affinities for dubstep, garage or techno in the mix - more music to feed to your USBs. I felt it appropriate to put this out at a time where I've been writing way more home-li...

gyrofield Patreon May '24 Samples + Update

You may have noticed I'm giving away this bit a day earlier... No mistake, I wanted to speak to you about plans for the near future.

I'd like to do a Patreon session on 'noisecraft', the way noise is manipulated to create sounds. We'll be looking through sounds in my collection new and old for this. Date to be confirme...

gyrofield Patreon Hangout #15

...or thereabouts.

I was going to hold this hangout earlier in the month, but I was affected by illness. To make it up for you all I'll be combining the two topics I wanted to talk about: A track breakdown of my space-disco mix of Disclosure - BOSS, and some additional ideas for synth design, synth ambient music. All in...

gyrofield Patreon April '24 Samples

Swinging into April like these samples swing between empty space and industrial noise. Roughly 140bpm experiments in analogue sound sources scrambled by digital processing. I love Izotope Trash2.

Hope you enjoy...

Dogma (Patreon Exclusive)

Hi all! Bringing something out from the vault again that still feels timely. Dogma sources an instantly-recognizable Michael Jackson sample & gives it a no-war, fuck-the-government treatment. Blinding helicopter break choppage and rapid drum rolls confined between the subs and rumbles.

Hope you enjoy!

Synthworks (Techniques for synth design & programming)

Updated version as of March 2024 - Added new insight, original midis, bonus look at a synths in an unreleased track with this re-recording.

The IKEA showroom for synth patches: monophonic vs polyphonic expression, synthesis, articulation, onboard and post-processing. The largest of voicings and multi-octave riffs as wel...

Harvard Academic Fraud 2023 - An influences playlist

Some music I've discovered and enjoyed during downtime these few months. Winter mud and sludge and grit and skeletons in your closet. Hope you enjoy!

Outward link here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0P...

gyrofield Patreon March '24 Samples

Hey all! More abstract designs here for you - I tried to create or derive a lot of the tones and textures in these samples by myself. There's a lot of comb-filtered synths and noisy metallic tones, like in my industrial-tinged offerings last month, but all rounded off with more melody and more "riffs" to fill in ideas with.&n...

Had You Once (Patreon Exclusive)

Nursery-rhyme toy-keyboard astral-neogrime. 

There is a childlike purity within this track with a counterpoint of deep sub rumbles and whirring reese bass. I wrote this one after my first busy summer of gigs (Sept. 2022), with little foresight of what was to come from music and life overall. So I experimented, with...

More on my VISION Radio selections (& recent digs)

Rarely have I taken a proper dive into my record collection (all digital, mind), but with the recent VISION Radio co-host I did I felt it very appropriate to look into the artists whose work I showcased in the episode. 

A good look & celebration of the artists' output, and a little bit more about the music of '...