Today’s class at LiveSchool focused on synthesising drum sounds close to those found on Roland’s classic 808 drum machine (the inspiration for many sounds still found in electronic popular music today). While it might seem that this would be a little more useful for the “doof” composers in the room, it’s actually very useful for me to consider how I might go about creating industrial sounds myself, or (more likely) making sounds that fill the acoustic space between actual industrial sounds and the sounds of western historical instruments…