TALKBACK Ela Minus

WILLIAM STOKES

Colombian-born Ela Minus was studying jazz performance as a drummer at Berklee College of Music when she got a taste for electronic music. “I loved synths,” the artist and producer says. “I saw there was another major called Music Synthesis. But I never really wanted to produce, to be honest, but I loved synthesis, so I did a double major.” She subsequently landed a job building synthesizers with Critter & Guitari, where she contributed to the design of the celebrated Organelle synth. “I was always playing drums in parallel, and it got to a stage where I had sounds in my head — the music that I wanted to make — but I couldn’t communicate it to my bandmates,” she continues. “And I realised that learning how to produce was…

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