Monica Dogra on the Uniqueness of Sample Pack Creation
Monica Dogra is a Mumbai-based, American artist who has had a diverse artistic career as a musician, DJ, actor, and writer. Monica blends influences from popular genres such as rock, pop, hip-hop, and soul with evocative spoken word to create a uniquely powerful sound. Monica has released five studio albums with the band Shaa’ir + func, as well as multiple solo releases under her own Moniker with Universal Music and Times Music. She is a member on the judging panel of India's first English music talent show, The Stage and has also hosted four seasons of the Cannes Lion winning music-docu series The Dewarists.
Can you tell us more about the process of producing this pack?
So in the pack that we're recording, we kind of just improvised together and moved together, but a lot of the things that are coming through are downtempo soul.
What's unique about recording vocals for a sample pack?
In some ways, when you record your own sound pack, you're kind of giving yourself the autonomy and sovereignty to represent yourself, and also in this really strange way, you get to seed into so many different people's music. And as a vocalist, that's especially profound.
What's the most exciting part of creating a sample pack for other music creators to use?
There's this transmutation that takes place in all these iterations of sound, and I find that actually really really exciting for where I'm at as a musician. There's this pull to move with the way we're beginning to interact — which is digital. Which is, more than anything, this evolution of sound through access... through the internet. So I'm for it. I'm excited.
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