As a touring producer and DJ, Aaron Carmack understands his obligations to rattle sound systems and eardrums with his hybrid of hip-hop and electronic dance music, whether at a local venue or a major music festival such as Lollapalooza or Coachella.

But for his show at San Francisco’s Rickshaw Stop on Wednesday, Nov. 8, Carmack — who performs simply as Mr. Carmack — wants to tone things down for a change.

In the last in a series of what he calls “guinea pig shows,” which included stops in Los Angeles and Brooklyn, N.Y., the 27-year-old is shifting to playing live instruments for a more intimate show to simultaneously pay respect to his unheard catalog and signify a rebirth as a musician.

“Up until now, I’ve just been a DJ. That’s my live set,” he says.

Throughout his seven years as a producer, Carmack founded his sound upon heavy bass elements of house, dubstep and trap music that fits perfectly with the New Age club culture found at venues like 1015 Folsom and F8 in the city’s South of Market district. But his musical roots go deeper.

Born and raised in San Francisco, Carmack started playing piano at age 2 under his musician parents’ influence. He attended Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts where he honed his skill as a multi-instrumentalist, which helped land him a French horn music scholarship for California State University Long Beach. School was never Carmack’s strong suit, however, (“Music was pretty much all I was good at,” he says) so he dropped out and moved to Oahu to live with his sister.

Living off of wages made from restaurant jobs and releases on the online music platform Bandcamp, Carmack made his way back to the mainland and into the Los Angeles beat scene in the early 2010s after collective Soulection discovered his music on the Internet. At the time, L.A. producers Flying Lotus and Gaslamp Killer helmed a budding beat producer scene in Southern California where Carmack would soon emerge, eventually gaining enough recognition to become a frequent feature on regional and global festival bills.

Carmack soon became an in-demand road act and was convinced that his live sets always needed “fire and a lot of energy.” As a result, he made music solely to the demands of his signature high-octane shows. But that reputation left him with little room to grow as a performer, he says, sparking a new kind of fire in him that inspired his recent string of intimate, experimental shows. Up until now, he rarely shared the more emotional sides of his music.

I just wanted “to have it be a more inviting, relaxing atmosphere where I’m playing piano, playing songs that I never really had a chance to perform out to people,” he says.

Part of the performance includes the debut of his personal project, “Vista.” Three years in the making, the album is composed of “more complete ideas” and, he says, replicates the experience of “driving up or down a mountain.”

“It’s every single part of the mountain — windy roads, the top of the vista when you’re watching a sunrise or sunset and how that feels,” he says. It’s representative “of a point in my musical career that resembles a plateau, or a vista point, to see where I’ve been and who I’ve worked with.”

Among his collaborators is Oakland singer Kehlani, whose vocals float over Carmack’s music in the R&B track “All In.” The song was produced in 2015 as part of the “Songs From Scratch” series, presented by music-focused creative collective Yours Truly and adidas Originals, and finally finds a home on Carmack’s forthcoming album. (“That was one of my favorite songs to write,” he says.)

Carmack also worked closely with Jorge Hernandez, an audio engineer at Different Studios in the Mission, to tighten any loose ends on the technical side and to help reconfigure his ideas on the creative side.

Carmack’s “been a music producer for so long he knows how he wants his work to sound,” Hernandez says. “But having a second or third ear that’s a little bit more technical can definitely bring out certain things. You can make it mesh together better.”

If all goes well, “Vista” will be out before the year is over and by then, Carmack’s trial-and-error guinea pig shows should refine his live performances going into 2018.

He says allowing others into his musical processes has been crucial to rediscovering his own creativity.

“When you’ve worked on something by yourself long enough, you get a kind of skewed perspective,” he says. “This whole year has been me giving my projects up to other people and hearing it in different respects, different lights and different hands. I want to see if I can still give off the same level of energy, but with just a different side of me.”

Nina Tabios is a freelance writer.

Mr. Carmack: 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8. $19-$25. Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell St., S.F. www.rickshawstop.com

To see a behind-the-scenes video of the making of “All In” by Mr. Carmack featuring Kehlani: https://youtu.be/Iz385UYkKiE