FURTHER LISTENING

Rice tells us the tracks she’s most proud of

TERRAIN

“Terrain has been my most popular release so far. It’s four to the floor, so I guess it’s easy to relate to. When I released it, my Spotify users went way up! All of the synth lines, including the bass parts, were generated on the Roland SE-20, then I cut them up digitally and treated them with lots of effects.” bit.ly/halrice_terrain

BREAKS

“I use a lot of Paulstretch [see Rice’s favourite plugins] – the slightly haunting voices in my music have all gone through an extreme stretch. You get this beautiful cathedral-like effect. It sounds even a bit religious. And I like the juxtaposition of that with some quite driving basslines and sampled drum breaks.” bit.ly/halrice_breaks

SUNKEN SUNS

“My most recent release, and I wanted to concentrate on sound design; I spent a lot of time with noise generators in Reaktor, recording lots of audio that’s being created in a random way. Then I went through that and edited, maybe, like 50 to 100 pieces. And then I stitched that into the track, just so that each bar is a little bit unique, and positioning these to make full use of the stereo field.” bit.ly/halrice_sunkensuns