Timo Preece is a Berlin-based electronic musician and educator, Certified Ableton Trainer, and ProTools Expert. We caught up with him to talk about gear, technology, balancing old and new, and the attraction of living and making music in Berlin.
To start off, can you tell us what you are up to at the moment?
I am in Berlin, Germany working as a freelance sound designer, doing audio technology training, consulting and performing internationally with several music projects. Additionally, I teach Ableton Live courses online through Foothill College and work with AskAudio Magazine and MacPro Video writing articles and creating tutorial videos for them, some of which hone in on sound design, live performance and building custom setups.
I am also involved in several sound meditation projects that revolve around slightly less known and more esoteric tuning systems. I’m interested in exploring music theory based on planetary rotation speeds and how those get recalculated into frequency and sound vibration. In both Planetary-Cymatic-Resonance and Sonic Sadhana, we are using traditional and non-traditional approaches for sound healing, nada yoga and meditation practices.
A separate project involves another artist here in Berlin, Mode ST. We are working on dance oriented music using dedicated hardware instruments such as the DSI Tempest and the Elektron Rytm and Octatrack. For this project we are really trying to take steps away from the computer since we are in front of them so much everyday. It has been really refreshing to back away from those for a moment. It’s inspiring and a bit nostalgic to be working with the strengths and limitations of a select few hardware unit. It forces you to be more creative, in a sense, and to fully explore a more limited set of options.
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