Creating The Music

Alien Tribe’s Vocals Soar, Chant and Inspire

What sets Alien Tribe apart from most music is Lia’s vocals and lyrics.

Alien Tribe’s Vocals Soar, Chant and Inspire

Lia’s distinctive sound for Alien Tribe is unique not only among electronic music artist but most recording artist because of how she handles vocals. To her, the voice is more than a way to convey lyrical ideas. It is another instrument that contributes to the overall experience of a song. In a typical Alien Tribe song, Lia will create several vocal tracks. (more…)

The Art Of Micro Mixing The Alien Tribe Way

Lia micro mixes every one of her songs by mixing each second and fraction of a second against the other tracks in the song.

The Art Of Micro Mixing The Alien Tribe Way

Lia uses micro mixing to fully integrate all of Alien Tribe’s sounds and vocals into one unified whole. In fact, all her songs are mixed using this innovative approach. In traditional music mixing, each track consisting of different instruments and vocals is mixed together by adjusting the volume and equalization on each entire track. That’s not good enough for Lia! (more…)

Sound Engineering Through Chopping Tracks

Chopping Tracks is one way Lia engineers new sounds and sound combinations for her songs.

Sound Engineering Through Chopping Tracks

The complexity and depth of Alien Tribe’s sound might be explained by Lia’s chopping tracks to create new sounds. Maybe there is a 30 second vocal or instrumental piece. Lia will copy two seconds of it, put it on another track and replicate it five or ten times with a slight space between it. Then she will apply affects to it. Her songs are filled with this type of electronic twist on audio engineering. A typical song may have over 1000 individual sound elements that result from this type of chopping and placing. (more…)

Alien Tribe’s Improvisation With Feeling

Improvisation that includes adjusting synthesizers during her performance is how Lia finds the sounds and rhythms for her songs.

Alien Tribe’s Improvisation With Feeling

Each Alien Tribe song starts with improvisation. Lia experiments with various sounds and rhythms until she finds something that expresses what she is feeling in that moment. She then starts recording. As she performs, she continues to improvise the sounds by adjusting various synthesizers while playing. This creates a more complex and varied sound because both the sounds and the rhythm go through changes during each recording session. (more…)

Lia Shapiro’s Music Studio

This is the custom designed music studio where Lia Shapiro creates Alien Tribe’s music. Yes, it’s all done beginning to end right here.

Lia Shapiro’s Music Studio

Here is the studio where Alien Tribe’s music is created. All the music is written, performed, engineered, mixed and produced by Lia right in this studio. The studio furniture was custom designed just for Lia by Omnirax. (more…)