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Because I cannot sing for the life of my, my music is almost exclusively instrumental (excluding collaborations with vocal artists, of course) with deep roots in videogame music, electronic, as well as rock and metal but I also don’t shy away from lush strings and grand symphonic motifs.
From a very young age I was fascinated with both computers and things that made noise. Like so many Austrian children back then, I learned playig the recorder and reading music, but even after the class ended, I kept exploring. I remember how much I loved that red little children’s keyboard with its monophonic square wave tones; the deep and dusty sound of my grand aunt’s grand piano I timidly explored; the peculiar sounds of our neighbor’s Commodore 64; or just the music of the late eighties on the radio.
I started making music “in earnest” around 1998/1999 first as DJ aLPHA, yet soon under the name texx sound with he help of a Yamaha PSR-270 keyboard that was gifted to me by my dear gradfather whose acoustic guitar I had already adoped at that point. What intrigued me most about it was that I could hook it up to my computer via MIDI and manipulate the recorded notes.
A few years later, I gathered all my courage and went to a proper music shop to get my first real electric guitar, a shoddy Yamaha Pacifica with cringe-inducing distortion but just about right for my abilities.
In the early years I produced lots of music influenced by video games, as well as some remixes of videogame music that I submitted to OC Remix where I found a modicum of success.
Around 2005 I upgraded to Propellerhead’s Reason (I had been an avid user of their ReBirth RB-338 virtual synthesizers) which only increased my output.
Sometime in 2010, I adopted a new alias for my music production, Seph Carissa which has been my reclusive alter ego ever since for anything music related. In the years that followed my compositions grew more complex, and my mixing skills improved as well; enough for people to enjoy my music enough to pay for some of it which humbles me deeply.
Making my own music for my videos is both a curse and a blessing. One one hand it means much more time and effort is necessary before something is truly “done” but on the other hand I live in a magical world where I don’t have to rely on music libraries, copyright, and sudden takedowns.