Electronic Press Kit
SHORT BIO
Nat is a transgender upcoming producer and artist that primarily works through variety electronic music and is technologically based. Her works range from personal songwriting endeavours to working with others as a producer while also working with live show’s sound equipment. She works to create sounds and tracks she believes are interesting to share out with the world, trying to put more wonder in the world than when she found it.
EXTENDED BIO
Nat Parry, professionally known as Natster, is a transgender, electronic variety producer and songwriter who specialises primarily rhythmic and intricate synth lines. Her background in drumming during her childhood and young adult life allows her productions to have a distinctive and recogniseable quality to them with an aggressive deep sound.
Nat started her productions at the age of 16 after being introduced to the technical side of music creation and took to it like a fish to water in her A-Level education for music technology. Her sound is heavily influenced by alternative pop groups such as AJR, Saint motel, I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME, and other similar groups combining various elements from other genres and sounds with rock, pop, and synth sounds combining in ways that compliment each other.
Natster’s debut single; “The hope for tomorrow”, was her first ever production and original song writing which she had made as a class assignment, turned official release after spending an entire year on the creation of the single track. She has not since released any new tracks in the efforts to make enough quality songs for a debut album release.
“This is so awesomesauce u have no idea” – online commenter on youtube video of the above track
Nat has worked with community art projects from her hometown with an arts organisation called Collusion. In this she has worked on projects such as Sound Mirrors, an interactive installation in which she and a group of other artists recorded found sound with a variety of differnet microphones such as hydrophones and contact mics. Nat had even assisted with some of the mixing for the final audio file to play.
Currently, Nat is studying music production at Leeds conservatoire for 2024-2027, looking to expand their knowledge as a studio engineer and producer, and gain valuable networking and experience through sharing time and work with likeminded peers who are going into the music industry.
Nat Parry also has interest working with live sound equipment, such as setting up microphones for artists and bands and doing front of house mixing for high school projects. She also has been looking into the equipment and techniques behind live sound events in much detail in her own time.
To get updates on upcoming projects and behind the scenes photos and videos; follow her Instagram @natparry31 or follow this link: https://www.instagram.com/natparry5/?next=%2F
HOW TO CONTACT
To get in contact with Nat for any business inquiries, sending a message to the above instagram account will work or emailing natparry31@gmail.com. All will be answered ASAP.
Supporting Commentary
PHOTOGRAPHY
A lot of the photos were done in a staged environment in a studio. with very specific angles and shot sizes picked. the wide shot from behind of me at a mixing desk was picked due to the visual symmetry and aesthetical quality of it which highlights the technical aspects of my works while also not showing my face and being from behind to connote ideas of dedication and focus. the 2nd photo down of me sitting and mixing was staged for me to look intently at the screen while leaning in, this makes the photo have more action to it; which makes it an action shot which drives interest and presents the meaning of dedication yet again. The third photo of me micing up an amplifier was picked due to the contrast in negative and positive space, being the amp, myself and the microphone taking up positive space with very little else happening in the picture. this draws attention to me and what i am doing, showcasing my practicality and again being another action shot. the slightly lower angle demonstrates an air of authority in what i am doing yet me being low down also demonstrates being at the same level as the music, being able to give it the attention that it needs. The final photo is at a tilted angle to line up the frame with the patch bay. The tilted angle creates an uneasy feel and is an unconventional photo alignment which draws attention to it as it feels off to the readers. This tilt also manages to showcase my own unconventional and alternative ideas for music creation, including my own musical taste into a sort of visual style. This photo also uses strong negative and positive space to create a defined outline and draws your eyes specifically to either me or the technology, which I felt I wanted to be perceived as inseperable from that technology which I work with. To imply that to think of me is to think of my work creatively and technologically, as I do not wish to seperate the two.
INCLUDED LINKS
I have included the spotify link to my single release since I feel that is the strongest presentation of where I am as a producer/songwriter in the current moment and is also an easy way for people who are interested reading my EPK to experience what my sound as a producer and songwriter is like. I have also included a link to collusion’s website where it talks about sound mirrors for people to get a better in depth look at what I would have been doing on that project, which includes photots of me and other people I had worked with on the website page. These 2 links I felt were the most up to date, eclectic bit of evidence I could provide those looking into my EPK on what it is I do.
STRUCTURE
I had structured my electronic press kit to have both a short bio and an extended bio as i had seen many other EPK’s i used as references do both. I decided with the extended Bio i should start with a very brief overview followed by mentions of what my sounds are like in tone and quality. This would paint an overall picture on my creative works which is an important part of an EPK. I then used the next block of text to go further into detail about my own personal sound and musical inspirations so that people reading it would have a frame of reference for what to expect from my works. I used 3 relatively popular groups in the alternative pop scene to demonstrate my influences clearly with examples that people would’ve likely heard of at least once before. It was important to me that the choices I picked for discussing my influences were both true to what I try to sound like and recogniseable. As I will state later in my evidence of group work, I do not have a large discography or list of professional achievements that I can really point to, so after talking about my influences musically i then spoke about my debut single, the conditions that it was made in and then presented an embedded link to the track for easy access to readers to get a more tangible idea than what had previously been given through the descriptions before of what I create. I felt these were the most important things to share first, thus were what was spoken about before anything else. I then next spoke about a local artistic project/endeavour that I had worked on, that being collusion back in my hometown of King’s Lynn which was a great way for me to talk about my ability to work in groups and the diverse nature of my audio interests. However, there is still more to my presence as an artist than what I had already said, and so I continued writing ideas such as where I am currently with my creative endeavours in that I am studying music production. This was important to me to add since it is an explanation as to why there is a lack of evidence, that being my youth, and lets people reading my EPK know I am passionate about what I do, trying to turn music into something full time and professional. I wanted to then touch on my desire to work with live sound however this section is quite short comparitvely to the rest of my EPK due to the lack of hard evidence i could use and the fact that live sound is a vague future ambition, not something I am currently working on. And finally, to end the EPK, I had put my instagram handle and my business email down at the end purely for the convention of an EPK, and that the point is to advertise yourself to people who would want to work with you and contact details are important for that purpose. I put the instagram handle first as that is a more public method of me being able to talk to people
Unfortunately, the EPK itself couldn’t have been as long as I would have hoped it to be, again simply because I’m not in a position to advertise what I’ve done yet. A lot of my hopes in this career are theoretical and dreams of what I would like to do in the future.
EVIDENCE OF GROUP WORK
In our Working in creative industries seminars, I had taken some of the group work time to discuss ideas with some of my peers. When I discussed my worries about not having any particular style I like to stick by with my music career in particular and just make whatever sounds good; they suggested I use the adjective “variety” to describe my music work. This, I thought, was a great idea and thus have incorporated that into my bio.
Many times did I have people read over my biography and my choices and that generally helped me structure everything and tell me what I needed to include that was missing or remove what wasn’t needed. In an earlier draft I had put in my bio an entire paragraph about me not having done much to start with which when I showed it to members of my seminar group they agreed about it bringing my credibility and perceived reliability down, suggesting I don’t have the experience to do whatever work people would have initially wanted out of me. This meant I had to ammend that section to instead be about being in education currently to gain new skills, which would explain me not doing much while also making me sound dedicated and hard working.
Additionally, my lack of experience that would hinder the creation of my electronic press kit was another issue I had brought up in hopes of finding a resolution to which they said I could talk about some of the work I had done in my time in education such as producing original songs and production of a cover track. These meetings both helped me gain confidence in what I was going to be writing and gave me something to talk about when I felt I had hit a dead end with writing the EPK.
Furthermore we had general discussions around phrasing and how to turn what I’ve been saying into more interesting and engaging sentences, such as instead of saying “as a drummer for a long time” they mentioned that I should say how it started from childhood as it makes it feel more impactful and like I have more determination and conviction in my music, which I agreed with and incorporated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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