John Snyder, pioneer of guitar pedals and founding father of Digital Audio Experiments, explores the intersection of engineering, creativity, and the limitless pursuit of nice sound.
This week on The Indie Spiritualist, Chris and John focus on:
- John’s journey as a musician, creating guitar pedals and altering sound
- What it was like ending a PhD in {an electrical} engineering program in the course of the coronavirus pandemic
- How Digital Audio Experiments took off
- Blurring the traces between artwork and science
- Guitar gear as an extension of the instrument itself
- Navigating artistic burnout and the hole between efforts and outcomes
- How neurodivergent traits may be useful within the artistic business and past
About John Snyder:
John Snyder is a long-time guitarist with a PhD in electrical engineering. John mixed these passions and have become the proprietor and head designer at Digital Audio Experiments (EAE). EAE is an exploration in sound and texture by way of electronics. EAE focuses totally on stompboxes for electrical guitar and bass, with occasional ventures into amplification and synthesis. Try this article from Boston College on John and his work.
“It’s very edifying to do one thing like this that’s actually blurring the artwork that I need to make with the science background that I’ve. There’s a lot subjectivity to it that it appears like an artwork undertaking relatively than an engineering undertaking a lot of the time.” –John Snyder
