Luddite Musician Makes Beats By Hand
Guillermo Galindo plays the Maiz, his home-brewed synthesizer. SAN MATEO, California — Sick of over-produced, souped-up, sample-heavy pop songs? So is Oakland musician Guillermo Galindo, which is exactly why he built the Maiz, a makeshift synthesizer that creates simple sounds…
Guillermo Galindo plays the Maiz, his home-brewed synthesizer.
SAN MATEO, California — Sick of over-produced, souped-up, sample-heavy pop songs?
So is Oakland musician Guillermo Galindo, which is exactly why he built the Maiz, a makeshift synthesizer that creates simple sounds and records them.
“I wanted to create music that is based on physical sounds,” said Galindo. “Not based on artificial effects.”
Galindo repurposed household items like an old wine crate and deactivated credit cards to build the basic structure of the Maiz. A simple motor rigged to a
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