We had the good fortune of connecting with Adam Spaulding and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Adam, what led you to pursuing a creative path professionally?
My father wrote alot of electronic music back in the early 2000’s and would play it to us while driving us to school. He didnt really take it anywhere though. He also played guitar and would jam alot when i was younger and sometimes he went to open mics and played songs. I liked classic rock when i was really young and when i was outside sometimes i would harmonize with the music i was listening to. In 2nd grade i broke my collar bone and after it healed my mother bought me a keyboard and got me going to piano lessons. I didnt really care for it at the time. Much later in time id say in muddle school i got into green day and my dad showed me how to play some green day songs. We also had just gotten a new computer from the place my mom was working at the time and my father put the electronic music program on it. The name of the program was Jeskola Buzz. I fiddled with the program and sucked at it. I eventually learned some tricks over time. Later during Lockdown i would focus a lot of my time working on Jeskola Buzz. One day the computer would crash during an update, corrupting the windows install. I was devistated, but after a few weeks i remember thinking to myself “man their werent many songs on that, mainly just synth solos and cool soundscapes”. So i moved to linux and had to use a different program called renoise. After some time in highschool i started writing an instrumental album. It was a very dark conceptual album that i new wasnt supposed to be anything i expected to make money from so ive kept that project in wraps. This project really taught me what artistry was all about, make you feel something. But during my senior year i started trying to write something that was more mainstream and the only thing i found myself talking about were girls so i just started writing love songs. About a year after i graduated i was pursuing an engineering career and i realized i didnt want to be an engineer anymore. I remember telling myself that i had to stay there until i get my degree and then leave, but it eventually dawned on me that i wasnt going to pursue engineering anyways so i just grabbed my stuff and left. At the time i had also spent a ton of time mixing and i started to really feel like i had stuff that i could bring to the radio station. Now im recording the best ideas i think ive ever had. Id like to start playing these live soon.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
My current project “Want Me Too” really focuses on molding an artistic vision into something mainstream. Instead of soully focusing on making the music catchy and clitche. I focus on the message and slowly make an instrumental that i think fits that production. Even at the compositional level my music is a journey. I think that my songs are great even when you strip back the production. I always think about what Glenn Fricker of Spectre Sound Studios says “the fans deserve better”. I think theres alot of catchy songs out there but i wouldnt mention many of them as being good. Right now im starting from rock bottom ive got songs im producing and i hope people help push this project.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
Id take my boy Brennen out to Santa Monica beach and then we would go hang out in Hollywood. Then I’d take him to In N Out cause we dont have that in Maine. Theres also alot of great mexican food out here, back at home my favorite mexican foods would be tacos or borritos but after coming our here id have to say that a torta has taken that number slot. Id also show him the views from the hills cause those roads are fun to drive and its a great view of the city.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
There’s a book called 12 rules for life and what stuck with me about that book was that if there is something that you want, you can have it if you’re willing to get up and take it. I often quote that to myself. There was a guy back home in Maine named Jerry and i would take my songs and play them for him and we were listening to my catalog and remember him asking “Where are all the songs that you play for the chicks?” that one i always think about and is what got me to push into a more mainstream sound. Nine Inch Nails and that band really helped bring out my appreciation for artistry. Id go so far as to say that Nine Inch Nails is what got me into composition and layering. Nine inch nails i’d also say that in a way it outlined what it meant to approach catchy songwriting and composition in a way that is both tasteful and artistic.

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Image Credits
All of the photos I took myself. But Ben St. Pierre (Friend) did take the cone picture.

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