audiopeel (Kieron Gore)

Somehow, many years ago, Kier worked his way onto the FL Studio alpha-testing team and since then we just can't get enough of his quirky videos, catchy music & infectious vocals. If you want to see one of Kier's projects for up close and personal look in the FL Studio (10 onward) Browser > Projects > Coolstuff > KieronAGore - The Light.

Kier in his studio

Kier - songwriter, vocalist & FL Studio test-pilot

Tell us about your music and yourself?

I had a rubbish acoustic guitar, strings missing the lot as a kid, so I played the tennis racket far more. it wasn't until I turned 16 that I got interested and got myself a bass. A drummer friend for some unknown reason asked me to join a band with him (bredhed). Within four weeks of buying the guitar and joining the band I had my first gig. I was hooked.

Me? a bass player in various bands playing original material of a fair few genres? well yep.... but, there was always an underlying want to write and someday sing. When the last band (gyroscape) finished I decided to have a go at writing my own music. I got a Boss eight track porta studio and started writing. Eventually the ear bleeding noise grew into a semblance of music. I quickly discovered I'd need more than the eight track so I brought my first PC. Having not used a computer since I was at school (pre-windows),I was in the deep end and drowning fast.

The Light - Project Available in the FL Studio Install

How did you come to use FL Studio & what were your first impressions?

I was passed a disk of 'free' software in about 98 and Logic and Fruity Loops were on it. I struggled with logic. The fruit however struck a chord. It's interface and workflow, everything seemed logical. So I went online and purchased it. In fact It was the first time I'd ever made an online payment. It wasn't until years down the line when I tried another DAW, I realised just how good FL was for me. I don't get into the whole war on DAWs. My knowledge is somewhat lacking in anything techie. But the fact that I can sketch an idea in seconds by far surpasses the need or want for any other platform.

When all said and done FL is the underdog in the world of DAWs. 'Funny how a word can affect us' I still fondly refer to it as Fruity Loops. and no longer correct myself. Undoubtedly a rather sad confession but, as I've grown up with FL and have been around the community for a long time. I feel part of something. It's nothing mysterious or underground it's just something different, something I feel a kinship with.

I like myself

me & audiopeel

Kier has been a forum user name that's been around as long as I've been aware, though in the net world it came from the bloody Americans, so it stuck.

audiopeel is the name of the 'collective' of the music that I've performed under since 2004. By definition the name comes from....erm, say something cool. damn. ok so I work in layers to create songs. All the layers are purposeful and when placed together create the final audio blurge. So it seemed fitting to theme the name audiopeel (define audiopeel, define kier).

audiopeel is a hub for what I do and what the band does. I see the songs that I have written as just that, songs. They're not stuck in a genre. I predominatly write with an acoustic but that's just the writing tool, the Alpha version I guess you'd call it. 'The Light' for example was written acoustically for the band, It took on the style that is in the FL version with the help of Nucleon.

The lyrics are all about my personal experiences and are pretty much a tail of how crap my relationship abilities have been/are. I write from the heart and try to write intelligently. A lack of general grammar doesn't help but I do love words and I appreciate a good song writer. I strive to achieve a great song and the beauty is we always improve, well I'd like to think I do. We're never going to write our best song because it's at the end of the rainbow and often based in another persons perception.

I've also created under different artist names. The most memorable being 'loggy and twig'. Deadmau5 even liked some of that stuff. Though the proof was on a comment in the old forums.

Video is what's inspiring me at the moment from an artistic angle and have a few new ones coming over the next few months. And as a massive fan of Christmas I did this:

www.thenightbeforechristmas.co.uk

Making of...

Making of Wreath Around Our Hearts

Tell us about your production environment & toys?

The current setup I'm using is pretty minimal, I've experimented with hardware but due to moving home a fair bit I'm always down sizing. I've only just got a permanent backdrop. I'm using a 5 year old Dell pc. M-audio delta 1010 card, Behringer X2442 mixer, Fatar grand touch midi keyboard, Korg nano controller, Rode NT2 A, Rode NT1-A, TC Helicon voice live 2, Alesis MK2, Beyerdynamic DT 150 headphones and FL with some third party vst/vsti.

For live I use a laptop (or a Dell desktop), Motu 828 MK2, M-audio oxygen keyboard. Acer touch screen and the Nano Control. It is live in the loosest sense of the term. only live playing and filter sweeping etc.

Circles

Any links you would like to share?

Kier.

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POWER USER LIST

BT (Brian Transeau): "FL is such a fresh approach to composition. It literally blows me away every time I work in it."
Project 46 (Thomas ...: "It is the cornerstone of our productions and without it we would not be able to make the music we do."
Dot Rotten (Joseph ...: "It pushes me as a producer, it never fails me, its also a program that helps create success over the years."
Sacco (Matias Monte ...: "I have yet to find a software that is as cool and has such a fast workflow as in FL, and believe me I tried everything."
Ronald Jenkees: "...I don't really endorse anything, but spreading the word of FL Studio has been a no-brainer because it's given me so much"
Tritonal: "FL Studio has been the powerhouse behind many of our productions as Tritonal and remains a go-to production tool"
SoundTakt: "FL Studio helped us realize our creative potential and hone our skills"
Tom Swoon: "It's so addictive! There's too many awesome features to list"
Marcus D: "A fellow Seattle producer introduced me to FL Studio ... I grew up on the cusp of the digital production age and didn't have the money to buy hardware, so naturally software was my go-to move"
Synthetic Orchestra ...: "Not only did the patterns in the playlist feel just right, but the piano roll was more powerful than anything I had used before"
Seven Lions: "It just very easy to be creative with this program, no road blocks"
Tristam: "The pattern/clip set up is amazing, I mean 'make unique' is just bliss!"
Phoenix (The Sound ...: "It's simple at the end of the day. Everything they [other DAWs] can Do FL can do better"
Naden (Daniel Taranger): "Ever since i tried fl studio, the program and I just clicked"
Amir Acid: "FL Studio has a great environment and makes it so easy to be in touch with the tools"
Indivision: "we haven't met any other sequencer which would help us to lay down our ideas so quickly and simply"
Jayce Lewis: "[FL Studio] really has become a big part of what I am as an artist"
Dexplicit: "FL Studio is without a doubt the most important tool in my inventory"
Mick Gordon: "I use it [FL Studio] for scoring, sequencing, designing sounds, and musical sound design. It's just so easy to work with, and work with quickly"
Madeon: "...with the incredible depth of the software, I never feel like something isn't achievable"
Mehran Abbasi: "My dreams came true when I was introduced to FL Studio. This software has formed a big part of my life & I am so glad because of it I am enjoying my music."
Richy Pena: "Before you know it I was playing the keyboard, recording melodies on to FL Studio and creating songs"
Ephixa (James Leusink): "I have never left FL because of my love for the piano roll"
Varien (Nick Pittsi ...: "I tried other DAWs like Live and Reason, but nothing got my ideas out faster and better than FL Studio"
Boi-1da (Matthew Sa ...: "A friend had told me about FL Studio, I ended up going out and getting a copy of it and using it ever since "
Danyella: "I loved the user-friendly layout. Just a few months later my tracks were already signed away to labels "
audiopeel (Kieron Gore): "The fruit however struck a chord. It's interface and workflow, everything seemed logical."
Rodney Anonymous (D ...: "I still consider Fruity Loops the most addictive substance I've ever been exposed to"
Cyriak Harris (anim ...: "Most of my videos start months before I even realise it. That's when I make the music that will eventually inspire the visuals of the video"
Ajurika (Akitaka To ...: "I am instantly able to achieve the desired result and also to create the sound I am looking for."
Veela: "I quickly came to realize how complex and beautiful the program really was"
Andrew Aversa (Zircon): "Trying to use any other piano roll after working in FL was like having my mouse dipped in molasses"
Hitfinders (Andrew, ...: "We noticed it [FL Studio] while reading a producers forum, and were instantly hooked"
Pete Marriott: "When I realized how I could use it as a sound design and production tool I became hooked instantly"
The Flashbulb (Benn ...: "Nuendo and Pro Tools wasted a lot of my time, and I started noticing that FL Studio was blossoming"
MdL (Mason Levy): "FL Studio is the fastest and most inspiring piece of software in my workflow."
Afrojack (Nick van ...: "Don't let people tell you that Logic or other programs are 'superior' "
Feed Me / Spor (Jon ...: "Despite working on other platforms occasionally I still find FL the fastest and most powerful way to get my ideas down."
Porter Robinson: "At first, FL stood out to me just because it was vastly more intuitive and usable...there's way too many awesome FL Studio features to list"
Avicii (Tim Berg): "It's so easy and quick to use ... I literally couldn't shut the program down."
Anurag Dixit: "I’ve used every damn thing that can make music, but nothing comes close to FL."
Alex Medina: "I was first drawn to FL Studio's when a friend introduced me to it and taught me how to make hip hop beats. To this day I have used FL Studio..we are one :)"
Matthew Dear: On FL Studio: "It came highly recommended through various artists I'd meet on the road. I finally gave it a shot, and it immediately enhanced my production techniques..."
Infinity: "It means Everything, without FL i wouldn't be producing."
Ripley+Jenson: "When I took a look at a FL demo version in order to understand it, I discovered that it was the software I always had been looking for."
Nely (Arma Secreta): "For me FL studio is the easiest way to project your ideas and anybody can lay out any musical ideas."
Big Giant Circles ( ...: "FL has always been centric to my studio. It's the cornerstone of my creative process"
Jay Frog (ex-Scooter): "The fact to compose songs and quickly notate ideas on the road within FL Studio was a real innovation for me."
Secret Cinema: "I bumped into Fruityloops at version 3 and Immediately loved it!"
AudioJack: "We are known for having an individual sound to our music and FL Studio has been a key part to shaping that"
Tom Ellard: "It was the Fruity Scratcher that finally convinced me to use FL Studio... It feels like I'm using the hardware but I can save the whole patching system to hard drive."
Jeff Samuel: "Once Fruityloops started to use audio and sampler channels, I switched and never looked back! It was tremendously powerful just with those features but no one really realized it until years later."
Meg Hentges: "FL Studio (plus a wave editor) is the only software I ever use ...and since FL added audio recording, my rack mounted hard disk recorder rarely gets switched on."
Franchize Boyz: "Franchize Boyz and Fruity Loops"
Seismic Crew: "I used the demo of FL a lot back before I was making any real money with my music. I had been using the old software drum machine Hammerhead, but FL offered endlessly more flexibility and power."
Toby Emerson: "I found the demo while searching on the internet for a program that I could create drumloops with. I ended up finding FL studio and have been hooked ever since. It is more addictive than crack (not that I have tried that)."
Peter Presta: "A friend of mine introduced me to FL Studio and I instantly fell in love with the sounds you could create as they ALL sounded so BIG. I was Totally Hooked on FL Studio from there!"
Doug Lazy: "... stumbled across FL while surfing. I tried it and immediately Loved it. I was still into hardware at the time but slowly over the last few years have transferred my work to PC exclusively with FLS."
Mark Tinley: On Fl Studio: "It means I can create multi-track drum loops, music loops or even entire songs and dump them straight into Pro Tools for further mixing."
Steve Duda: "FL means a whole lot, if I were restricted to one item of music software on my PC, it would certainly be FL."
Justin Lassen: "Probably around '98, a friend showed me FruityLoops. I just thought it was the coolest piece of software."
Basshunter: "A friend of mine showed me Fruityloops when I visited his place for a LAN party, and I got hooked right away."
DeadMau5 (Joel Zimm ...: "It’s ease of use and fast results are what get the ideas down as fast as they come to my head, and that’s really important for me"
9th Wonder: "The programs we use are Cool Edit Pro and FL Studio. Those are the two programs that we use, and that's what we did the whole album on."
Mike Oldfield: "It is very good to see a product like FL Studio which is available to all and doesn't cost $10000000000 of dollars"

We asked some of our 'Power Users' how they got involved in music and how they use FL Studio.

audiopeel (Kieron Gore)

We asked some of our 'Power Users'
how they got involved in music and how they use FL Studio.