profile
A passion for art and the story behind.
Cygotec is a digital creator (digital artwork, design, photo, animation, sound designer, music composer) and web developer (professional work) hailing from western Norway. Previously known as icotec, FreeZ, Neural Net and other aliases. In 2020 I took on a new artist name; Cygotec. I had way too many ideas on too many projects and too little time, so I decided to merge them all into one.
This alias is a juxtaposition of a former artist name and a track on the 1996 album icotec - Black Planet - called Cyga. This name in turn became the “remote” place that I base all my new artworks on. Cyga is an imaginary place far away, somewhere in the outer rims of the Sombrero Galaxy.
Artworks
Most of my work is based on a futuristic, science fiction/fact based theme. They are developed using several techniques, and most have a random/chaotic nature and hardly any symmetrical features. Much of my work revolves around chaos, randomness, glass, metal and hard surfaces. The surreal aspect is highly present in everthing I do, and each of these works tell a story with a deeper meaning, borderlining with philosophic and quantumphysical aspects.
Let's imagine that matter is just frequency like in the string theory, and the light it generates decides what is perceived by our minds. The two above mentioned aspects is the kind of surreal imaging I’m trying to reflect in my works. The less real it looks, the better. In game development making things look as real as possible is central. My work should reflect the complete opposite of that.
Software
Modelling and abstracts: DAZ Studio, DAZ Bryce, Blender 3D
Fractalbased: Mandelbulber, Mandelbulb 3D, Apophysis
Photo/video editing: Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/After Effects/Dimension/Premiere, VirtualDub2
Composing
My main focus these days is composing and producing film/epic music. I also do work in a whole host of other genres such as ambient and psychill, electronica, idm, trance/house, acid jazz and orchestral/neo-classical.
Studio
Hardware and EFX modules: Korg Z1, Korg Triton LE, Yamaha S90ES, Roland JD800, Korg Wavestate, Roland JV1080, Yamaha MU100R, Novation A-station, Ensonic SQ-1, E-mu E-synth Ultra, Hologram Microcosm, Novation Mininova. In previous music I was using Cazio CZ-5000, Roland Juno-6, Ensoniq SD-1, Ensoniq ASR-10, Yamaha A4000, Yamaha An1x, Oberheim Matrix 1000
DAWs and Audio interfaces: Cubase 10.5 Artist, Audacity, Steinberg UR44C, Focusrite Forte, misc MIDI interfaces
Software: Metropolis Ark I & II, Spitfire Audio, Native Instruments Studio Komplete 7 & 8, Steinberg Groove Agent, Superior Drummer, EZ Drummer, Muse Hub, Spectrasonics Trilian Guitars and bass, misc VST plugins
Samples and vocals: Sample CDs, AI text-to-voice vocalisation and AI stem sampling (Musicfy, Fadr, Udio, Suno, Voicemod, Yamaha Vocaloid)
