Vic Da Looper On the Making Of ‘Cat Sounds’
Can you share any interesting or unique musical elements or production techniques used in ‘Cat Sounds?’
Well, I usually mix music based on the overall song as a journey. Some have a very standard and uniform technique. I see it more like an art form, so every song is mixed differently based on the strengths of the song. For me, the song is greater than the mix and that’s how I mixed this album
What was the initial spark or idea that led to the creation of ‘Cat Sounds?’
A cat that showed up to my house and ended up moving in. Never saw myself as a cat person till I got to know that Feline. This got me obsessed with Instagram videos and the human-like sounds that cats make. So I made a song revolving around the sound of a cat. Then it became 3 songs and then a full album. That’s when my third album's theme became Cat Sounds and the humanization of Cats. I was really inspired.
What do you like the best about this track?
I like the fact that it almost wrote itself since I revolved everything around the Strange Cat noise. It was the center of everything so ideas easily flowed through. Each part was written in relation to that specific cat sound.
Can you tell us a bit about yourself and how you got started in music?
Well, I was conceived to music and then I was born with a passion for it. My mom said when I was a baby that the only thing that made me stop crying was weird sounds like the ones that came through our vacuum cleaner. As a teen, I picked up the guitar and never stopped since. Now, since then till now, I’ve lived in the middle of writing a song. It’s like constant riddles that I have to solve. Once I solve it, I'm happy and then repeat the process.
How do you approach creating something new and different?
Wow, I can’t do it any other way. Even when I do something that i think is super normal people tell me it’s actually weird and different. My problem is creating something that’s normal. That is actually my challenge.