You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
In this episode, Will Wiesenfeld, who records under the name Baths, breaks down his song Miasma Sky.
It came out last year on his highly praised sophomore album Obsidian.
Coming up, Will talks about using the computer to intentionally destroy sounds,
trying to find a balance in his music between simplicity and complexity,
and how he felt getting his first drum kit.
Just like, like the most fun thing ever.
This is Miasma Sky on Song Exploder.
Hi, I'm Will Wiesenfeld.
I'm Baths.
With this song, with Miasma Sky,
I went into it knowing I wanted to make like a sort of a simple dance track.
And in order to do that, I wanted to make a synth sound that was really,
really thick and took up the space of the entire track almost.
And that the song was sort of built around that sound.
don't have a lot of synths and there's something in my head that was like the idea of making the most of what I have and so all of the synth sounds on this entire record are from a small Casio that I borrowed from my friend Luke and the OG Micro Korg and that's it those are the only two synths I have and then it's like a bunch of layers of effects and manipulation and like stitching clips together and all that sort of stuff so I'm getting stuff that's like further than what either of those can achieve by themselves,
but it's still the root of it is just those sounds.