Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman

Bad Snacks


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This episode features Bad Snacks, a producer and multi-instrumentalist known for the use of violin, with lofi and dance influences. We talked about her experience when she went viral on Andrew Huang’s “4 Producers Flip the Same Sample” challenge with over 4.5M views, dealing with online boundaries, with sexism, finding inspiration, and  enjoying the learning process. Bad Snacks is also an educator; she coaches fellow producers privately, runs a successful YouTube channel where she posts content related to music technology and beat breakdowns. Due to her love for cutting-edge music tech, she has worked as a key demonstrator with several of the industry’s largest names like Ableton, Roland,  and Moog. She has also taught as an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music for Electronic Production & Design. We talked about her unique educational path and choices she’s made along the way to carve out a successful career, and in fact what success really means. She spoke thoughtfully about important topics such as music education, developing creativity, imposter syndrome and keeping a healthy perspective. Video and transcript link: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/bad-snacks

Bad Snacks Website: https://www.lilbadsnacks.com/

Bad Snack’s My Pedals for Synth Violin video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2thGDywkg18&t=1s

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(03:01) Bad Snacks path into making beats, developing her sound with violin demo
(10:49) Google Audio Library with excerpt
(12:45) Andrew Huang’s 4 Producers Flip the Same Sample
(19:36) name Bad Snacks, Home Music EP hybrid style
(24:57) clip from iiwannabe
(25:47) collaboration with chromonicci like u do with clip
(31:38) decision not to go to Berklee college
(35:06) different ways to support this independent podcast
(35:58) making difficult life decisions, bathtub bumps clip, using different sequencers
(43:11) cassette tapes
(45:14) imposter syndrome, healthy mindsets, interacting with online community
(51:35) finding her own path in music, early education
(58:31) Brainfeeder’s The Hit, Flying Lotus
(01:02:11) Dot mentorship, creativity exercise, dealing with sexism in the industry
(01:09:34) teaching violin, teaching production
(01:12:37) different ways of releasing and marketing music
(01:16:57) neat tape 1, learning curve for each project, music clip
(01:18:30) using the violin, sampling, festival circuit
(01:26:42) expanding Home Music into a series, building community

photo of Bad Snacks: June Jameson

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