“Okay, if I were to meet David Bowie, would I feel okay about showing David Bowie this album?”: Modular synthesist Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith on making meditative electronic masterpiece, Ears

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.

When it comes to creating albums, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith likes to uncover the story as she’s making it.

“I usually don't know the narrative until the end of the project,” she says. Beginning, as she likes to do, by purging herself of bad ideas, she lets the plot lines reveal themselves by 'failing' at making them.