Sound Builders - Peaking Lights (Part 2/2)

Our new series Soundbuilders travels to Madison, Wisconsin to visit Peaking Lights, a married musical duo famed for their pulsating looped-rhythm tracks composed on re-purposed scraps, stereos, and lo-fi gear. We watch as husband and wife prepare for tour by paring their studio down to the bare essentials needed to produce Peaking Lights distinctive sound.

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• sound
• builders
• soundbuilders
• motherboard
• peaking
• lights
• instrument
• electronic
• music
• madison
• wi

[ThePellerhead]

shit yeah! really inspiring!

[tanel21]

I like sounds and I'm trying my hand on producing music too, but I'm a software guy so all this hardware and creating those crazy sounds is another strange new world to me. I find it fascinating! Peaking Lights goes into my list of favorite bands.

[vidarfreyr]

@88fuzz You can make sounds with random electronics by making a feedback loop. Essentially that's how oscillators work.

[synthbarrier]

amazing

just the thought of this got me you know where

[ghaibboy]

do you guys have an album ? i really wanna buy it..

[lightswitchlarry]

@88fuzz I think they are taking the input from the little keyboard, then using the various cicruit boards to manipulate the sound.

[88fuzz]

I don't really see how putting random electronic components together makes sounds... There has to be something that's driving the sound

[kharlos84]

awesome this guy is a genius

[ipnorospo38]

@TheSqearl The song's name is "Tiger Eyes (Laid Back)".

[lilrich]

@TheSqearl I also want too know what that song is. Aaron, do you troll yourself. hit me back. Richard from 155KRDNZ