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Six Missing's Harmony Tracks interview
1. Who are you, and what do you do?
Hi gang, I'm TJ Dumser! I'm an award-winning sound designer, mix engineer and composer who also writes and performs original music for film, tv and inner journeying as Six Missing. I'm originally from NYC but have been spending some time in Austin over the past few years.
2. Can you tell us a little about your usual creative process?
I love taking the pressure off whenever possible, so whenever I sit down, I press record first and then start experimenting and playing. I don't try to make anything happen just yet, I just let the fun happen as I turn off my "thinking mind" and let it all flow. Once something starts to feel good, I may go back to listen and see what happened, then check if it’s worth exploring deeper. For better or worse, I have a lot of gear, both vintage and new, as well as software instruments and effects. The beautiful thing about working with vintage gear is also the difficult thing about working with vintage gear - it decides how it wants to behave that day, which to me is so incredibly human.
3. How did you apply your creative process to this Harmony Tracks challenge?
For this Harmony Track, I decided I wanted to start with the Korg PS3100 so I started by sending it some MIDI (Thanks Rosen Sound + Tubbutec!), and once I got that sequence rolling, I could hear the rest of the piece coming together around me. So, I then raced around my room attempting to catch the magic as quickly as I could. I utilized my stereo space echos as well as my vintage Moog Minimoog Model D. I like to record with headphones because it makes things feel more intimate, but as soon as something special starts happening, I turn on my Genelec 8330As to check things in the room. There’s no point in going down a path of sound design that won’t translate to the finished product and the Genelec’s tell me how I'm doing with that instantly.
4. What is behind your choice of sound and what fed your inspiration?
As Six Missing, I make meditative music to help people relax or find a place of calm during their days. In fact, I have a full-length LP entitled Here For Now, released December 15th 2023, which is exactly this type of music! So, for me, I attempt to create from that meditative place to begin with. It's my way of knowing if the magic is happening or not. I'm letting the moment inform my choices and just allowing it all to happen. The beautiful thing about music and writing is that every moment is different, and you just have to be open to it long enough to sense what it is that this moment needs to be. If you can stay open, then you can tune in. And if you tune in, you can’t lose.
5. What advice do you have for others about to create their Harmony Track?
My advice to those creating a Harmony Track is to just have fun and don't force anything, don't feel the pressure to do something cool just for the sake of doing it. Honor your own sound and enjoy the process! See where it leads you! Or perhaps try playing an instrument you don’t normally play or grab for first. Or better yet, try doing something that surprises you! But again, above all else, have fun.
6. Do you have a nice memory of Genelec you would like to share with us?
I've been using Genelec from the very start of my career. I've run three different studios in NYC as Senior Sound Designer, I've mixed a few handfuls of National Super Bowl Ads, countless short films and documentaries, and hundreds of commercials as well as mixing every piece of music I've ever released and Genelec has always been there with me for it all. I've learned how to listen on Genelecs. And better than anything, I know that when I walk into a studio and see a pair (or array) of Genelecs, that I'll be able to confidently translate my work on them with very little effort. So, I suppose my nice memory is just that I feel more comfortable and confident in my mixes if I know I’m working on them with Genelecs. In the past few years, GLM software has been a game changer. I finally feel like I’m hearing just my work, the room vanished. It’s really some sort of sorcery!
19 дек 2023
