Scott Hansen is the San Francisco-based producer, composer, musician, graphic designer, and creative force behind Tycho.
This video, via Soundtoys, captures Hansen sharing his thoughts on gear, inspiration and his creative process.
Video Summary:
For the past 10 years Hansen has been developing a distinctive aesthetic for Tycho by intertwining his carefully crafted visuals with a pulsing combination of ambience, samples, guitars, and synthesizers.
Tycho was a solo project until the 2011 release of Dive, when Zac Brown and Rory O’Connor joined Scott for the recording process (and subsequent tour) to bring an unusually dynamic energy to the mellow downtempo style.
Tycho recently concluded a two-year world tour for their fifth studio album, Awake.
Scott is a long-time Soundtoys user and analog gear fanatic, so when Tycho played in Burlington, VT, we invited him by the Soundtoys headquarters to discuss inspiration, gear, production techniques, and the use of Soundtoys plug-ins in his creative workflow.
Pretty boring interview.
Only a DJ would think Tycho is boring…
who is this guy? amd why is this intersting?
As they say, “ignorance is no excuse “.
If you think about music for a sec and make a list of composers of some worth and this guys turns up in that ‘list’, then we agree..Ignorance is no excuse!
He’s the Ulrich Schnauss of the US, as much as I hate that comparison. He makes some pretty cool melodic electronic music.
Pretty apt description, I dig both equally. With slight edge to Ulrich.
Check him out in Spotify, Soundcloud, Youtube. He has some “dope melodic” tracks!!!!
Glad to hear he got some gear sponsors now.
He has the whole “Serial Killer on CSI” look down.
Not sure if he was going for it though.