But as a designer, he understood technology, and that was his way in: he got himself a drum machine. He thought, “At least I can just approach this from a technical perspective, and just learn this machine. And there isn’t some attached meaning to it, like, oh, you have to think you’re an artist.”

Between clips of isolated synthesizer parts from the song “Awake,” Scott explained that his approach to music and his approach to design are congruous. “There’s a precision and a textural element to it that are common to each. My design always has a very analog, noisy, textured yellowed, aged layer to it, even though the things below it are very digital, very modern, and clean.” And with music, “even though it might be a modern synthesizer, I’ll spend a lot more time working on the filtering and the processing of it to make it feel like this memory, through a yellowed lens.”

Hear Scott’s full story of the process behind Awake below:

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