![]() ![]() ![]() This is Gonzalez’s debut release, where near-industrial soundscapes bump shoulders with radiophonic ambience. I love exploring how I can make my instrument beautiful in unconventional ways, and this album is exactly that.“ I would plug my electric violin into the Lyra and mess with the LFO or use other pedals. ![]() Side B challenged my ability to compose for violin and my ability to improvise. I enjoyed tuning the Lyra, which was an excruciating process, to create resonance and dissonance intentionally. Straight up, a fair amount of it is harsh noise. Their composition series, Sonic Creations with a Lyra-8 highlights a synthesized violin sound and duets between the instrument and a Lyra-8 synthesizer.Ībout the album & its process, Gonzalez says, “Sonic Creations for Violin and Lyra yielded experimentation with my electric violin and a Soma Lyra-8 both separately and together. Chicago musician & composer Raquel Gonzalez has spent the last five years as a studio and live musician for various bands throughout the Midwest, often involved in the composing and arranging process. ![]()
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