We recently connected with Frank Albrecht and have shared our conversation below.

Frank, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

There were always instruments laying around my house growing up, so I started out in music as a mostly self taught multi-instrumentalist, which proved invaluable in my work today. When I grew older, I discovered musical production, which led to teaching myself how to make beats and songs by treating it like a game of sorts. This natural and instinctive first approach to playing and making music was important, and I felt like it gave me an edge in many ways. Later on, however, I was accepted into the Berklee College of Music, where I got a complete overhaul to my musical knowledge and I learnt invaluable music theory and other practical things that I was lacking. It was then when I realized that learning music theory and having actual teachers could from an early age could have really boosted me as a musician from earlier on (not to mention that there weren’t too many online tutorials back then either). However, the irregular music learning process I had in my life gave me an interesting blend of instinct and theory that I wouldn’t want to change.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

Despite graduating from Berklee as a film scorer with high honors, I eventually found my true passion which is music production. My work is now mostly composed of production and audio engineering, as well as releasing my own music as an artist under the pseudonym 4NALOG. I consider myself a swiss army knife of sorts, being extremely versatile in terms of what genres and roles I can make, play, and fulfill. As for my music as an artist, I make dark, experimental trap music in argentinian spanish, with a goal of breaking the mold of what latin music is expected to be, playing around a lot with unexpected and punchy production.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

My answer might be a bit obvious, but being able to wake up every day and do what you love, not because you have to as a job, but because you truly enjoy it, is invaluable.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative?

Having said that, I feel like most non-creatives believe that working in a creative job such as mine means barely working at all. This could not be farther from the truth. Most creatives, at least most serious creatives, have to work just as much or more than people with traditional jobs in order to be able to maintain themselves, especially in the starting years of the career. I definitely spend more weekends working than I do resting, even if it is something I enjoy doing.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2f3J0wbNURbwMETUIk7T9i?si=Y6jfhy8RSDi8vOtb_H_dvA
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/4nalog__/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/4NALOG.Musica/

Image Credits
Lacio Diani, Eddy Duggan