Brandon Nightingale.

What were you doing before you came to Spirit Studios?

I was producing music and working in design, print and web.

How did you get into Music Production?

I started making music at an early age and discovered music production in high school. I haven’t stopped since.

Any special areas of interest?

Generative music, hardware music production, modular synthesis, sample instrument development amongst many others.

What’s your proudest career achievement?

I’d say becoming a teacher.

What do you get up to outside of teaching?

Producing music, DJing, graphic design, occasional film making, record collecting, and buying strange synths and effects.

I started making music at an early age and discovered music production in high school, I haven’t stopped since.

What’s your favourite album/artist?

There are many! It’d have to be a current top 5… Jon Hassell – The Surgeon of the Night Sky, The Residents – Commercial Album, Fourth World Magazine – Pinhead in Fantasia, Boards of Canada – Old Tunes Vol. 1 and 2, K. Leimer – Land of Look Behind.

What’s your musical guilty pleasure?

Relaxation/ New age cassettes.

Tell us something people may not know about you?

I was born in the most northern hospital in the UK.

Want to learn from Brandon?

Brandon is a tutor at Spirit Studios that teaches our Music Production courses and Sound engineering courses.