This my final-year ISM (Independent Project for Music & Sound Recording) submission. The project expands the notion of sampling in hip-hop beyond direct digital extraction, instead using traditional recording techniques to craft original compositions in the style of soul, R&B, and funk, which are then flipped into three hip-hop tracks. The formula becomes: sample to create a sample to be sampled.

Aside from contributions to composition and live instrumentation, every stage of the project is my own work, spanning recording, mixing, mastering, and beat production. The EP features rap verses from Rhymekhamhaeng and Réjizz, two of Thailand's most exciting emerging rappers, and stands as a strong reflection of my expertise across sound engineering and sample-based hip-hop production.

Mercurialscape is an electronic music EP derived from the word "mercurial," describing a person of unpredictable, rapidly shifting moods. The EP charts a journey through an imagined dystopian future using the sonic palette of the past, drawing on techniques such as tape cutting in the tradition of musique concrète, analogue drum machines, and synthesisers. Created alongside Dylan Hooper and Louis Quillian as part of my third-year Sonic Fiction submission, my contributions centred on mixing and mastering, with some involvement in production.

This is a collection of recordings from my WAMPTA (Western Art Music Production Techniques and Aesthetics) module, which focuses on acoustic recording and mixing within the classical tradition, emphasising stereo miking and natural acoustic spaces.

I've done research and drawn inspiration from classical acoustic techniques used by ECM and Decca Records, and artists like Pat Metheny, going into this project.