We're back with Season 2 of CAP Selects: a series dedicated to showcasing the outstanding work of our second-year Creative Audio Production & Sound Engineering  Bachelor students. The original singles were created from scratch by students from  both our one-year Certificate and three-year Bachelor courses. Listen to and read about our tracks of the week below.

'S'Élève (air)' by Parallel Processing & Duhne

CAP Selects: Albums is a weekly series dedicated to showcasing the outstanding work of our second-year Creative Audio Production & Sound Engineering Bachelor students. The task for the assignment is to write a seven-track album towards a creative vision from scratch. The only prerequisite: two of the tracks should be collaborations and another two tracks should be covers or reinterpretations of original work.

'Bouchées de Matières' was created by second-year student @parallel_processing.

"I want to create music to be used combined with other forms of art like video ( movies, artistic video, animations..), art installation or performances. The vision for my album was to use the primary art form, Earth and its elements, to push my sound design abilities.
I picked seven elements for the seven tracks of the album: Air, water, fire, earth, glass, wood and metal. Each track is being produced using almost only sounds from the associated element.

Making art, using “art”. 

My concept is also to use elements in a way (mostly destructive in my case) that the original sound is hardly recognisable, and make something that sounds like my art, using any sound sources.
                    
This album project was a very interesting exercise to push further my emerging artistic universe. I decided to use limitations to create a frame of work and explore new sound design techniques. Choosing my seven elements, and working with samples brought a whole new way of generating sound, and a lot of unpredictability which is also part of my artistic universe."

Head to the blog for more albums of the week: catalyst-berlin.com/stories/cap-selects-albums-s2

Find out more about our Creative Audio Production & Sound Engineering courses at catalyst-berlin.com

Parallel Processing & Duhne - S'Élève (air) by Etikett Radio

CAP Selects: Albums is a weekly series dedicated to showcasing the outstanding work of our second-year Creative Audio Production & Sound Engineering Bachelor students. The task for the assignment is to write a seven-track album towards a creative vision from scratch. The only prerequisite: two of the tracks should be collaborations and another two tracks should be covers or reinterpretations of original work.

'Black Turns Blue' was created by second-year student Tomas Altamirano, aka Micelio.

"I wanted to create a concept album, but I also wanted the individual pieces to be able to stand on their own. I envisioned something obscure and dark, but not haunting. I portrayed fragility and playfulness. I achieved this by being very free in terms of song structure and instrumentation. 

The Story:
A being will be born from the depths of the ocean, the voice of the mother will be present before its own. After the being is born, the voice of the mother will carry on as they surface and set sail looking for something...

This story was for me, and my collaborators. It is not necessarily intended for the listener to follow, but more for us to hold on to something.

Special thanks to Artur Pasco for the drums"

Head to the blog for more albums of the week: catalyst-berlin.com/stories/cap-selects-albums-s2

Find out more about our Creative Audio Production & Sound Engineering courses at catalyst-berlin.com

Micelio, Duhne - The Betrayal Of A Maiden by Etikett Radio

CAP Selects is a weekly series dedicated to showcasing the outstanding work of our Creative Audio Production & Sound Engineering students. The original singles featured were created from scratch by students from both our one-year Certificate and three-year Bachelor courses.

'Daydreaming' was created by @imendezmusic

Follow Ivan Mendez:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4fIyPBFiF9MZ7AOBM9Cy5m
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Head to the blog for more albums of the week: catalyst-berlin.com/stories/cap-selects-singles-s2

Find out more about our Creative Audio Production & Sound Engineering courses at catalyst-berlin.com

CAP Selects: Singles S2 | Daydreaming by Ivan Mendez by Etikett Radio

A new season of showcase singles by our Creative Audio Production & Sound Engineering students. Listen to our track of the week.

Singles by Berlin's Emerging Artists

CAP Selects S2: listen to our student singles of the week

CAP Selects S2: listen to our student singles of the week

CAP Selects: Singles Season 2

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Week 2

Week 1