Tony Costin and the Extended Sense.

Tony Costin.

In 2015, I put together my first song with a few sounds in a software program I had. The feeling for music and goosebumps I had from childhood, in contact with melodic music. Electronic gadgets, especially DAW software, brought me into first contact with sound, letting me put them together by ear and feel for the first time.

I work with feel and instinct ahead of my slow learning.

My most significant real-life experience through music made me an avid listener of trance, house, and DJ club music, but I feel too humbled even to try recreating it; it is truly a world of masterful talent up there, so I leave it as a leisure treat. '80s music also played a role somewhere in my youth. 

Extended Sense.

My songs are thematic, created as 'open stories' that may unfold further and evolve in time.

The film and its thematic orchestral music, mixed with electronic touches such as Hans Zimmer's work and the trip-hop genre, such as Massive Attack's sound, connect with my most understanding side of making music, which I know.

I don't fit-and-match from extensive collections of sounds and effects; I create the melodic core myself and focus on only a few hand-picked effects, using them on parts of a sound for hours, sometimes a full day, to achieve a desired outcome. I start with the theme and translate it into music in the way I feel it, literally.

When I open my DAW, I feel immersed in the only filmmaking-90BPM-pulse I understand and when my productivity really opens.
I only use the AKAI MPC2 as a DAW, a bass guitar, a Key Station, and the AKAI mixing software products.
Not yet thinking of further gadgets. I like simplicity; I am loyal to it, without shopping distractions, as I grow in confidence.
I work in 90BPM, with thematic sounds and individual but interconnected parts that evolve throughout the bars.

I am still learning the final mastering process :)