A Dublin drum ’n’ bass producer has composed a bespoke album from youngsters’s devices designed for infants to “rave and sleep to”.
Graham Smyth’s ‘Music For Infants To Rave And Sleep To’ is streaming on Bandcamp now, an eight-track album that has been made totally on toy piano and kalimba. It was launched final month and you may test it out right here.
The inception of the venture got here to the DJ and broadcaster whereas he was attempting to compose lullabies on the piano to share along with his new child nephew, which he then tried to recreate on the kids’s devices.
Smyth started researching the consequences of sounds and frequencies on the cognitive improvement of younger youngsters. After consulting with youngster psychologists, he realized that infants’ coronary heart charges are sometimes 50 per cent larger than adults, which is now mirrored within the quick tempo of the music on the album.
Working with ambient producer Gareth Quinn Redmond on the venture, the album is made up of two distinct halves – one at a excessive BPM drum ‘n’ bass tempo and the opposite at a extra peaceable, sleep-inducing atmosphere.
Talking to District Journal, Smyth mentioned: “The album is meant to introduce youngsters to the totally different elements of digital music, from constructing as much as the height time rave all the way in which all the way down to putting the top down for a nap.”
“Infants’ coronary heart charges are 50% quicker than adults so the music ought to replicate this, therefore the drum ‘n’ bass impressed beats on ‘Toy Pianonono (For Raving)’,” he added. “The percussion is even influenced by how younger youngsters work together with devices.”
On his Bandcamp web page, he has mentioned the album is “geared toward dad and mom who love music and need to share that love with their little ones in full major color”.
“Graham hopes that ‘Music For Infants To Rave And Sleep To’ may very well be the gateway file for younger youngsters to develop the identical ardour and fascination for music that their dad and mom have,” it provides.
