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  • About

    A lbums Angel Eggs by Our Blue Heaven - co- pr od uced/mixed - 2022 Yamble by Our Blue Heaven - live - 2022 Music with two guitars, voice, and toy piano by slowsea - live - recorded and co-mixed - 2022 Unicorn is Singing by Our Blue Heaven - live - 2021 Paper Trails - EP - produced and mixed - 2021 Ecdysis - LP - produced and mixed - 2019 Dwell - EP - produced and mixed - 2017 Reconciling - single - produced, mixed, mastered - 2016 This Wind - EP - produced, mixed, mastered - 2016 Grauer Girl Rising Compilation - produced, co-mixed - 2015 What Friends? Compilation - produced, co-mixed - 2013 On My Own - EP - 2013 ​ ​ P ress / I nterviews Motel Void 2022 Peanut Butter & Good Jams 2019 Independent Clauses 20 19 Further. 2019 Willamette Week 2018 Sofar Sounds Brescia 2018 Sofar Sounds San Diego 2017 Adobe & Teardrops 2017 Abduction Radiation 2017 Amaize Mag 2017 Gothenburg Sessions “Best New Indie” 2017 Tracy’s EOP 2017 Triste Sunset 2017 The Deli Magazine 2017 KXSU Seattle 2017 GoldFlakePaint 2017 B io Alexandra Burress is a music producer, composer, sound designer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist. In 2023 she graduated from Berklee College of Music where she received a B.A. in Electronic Music Production and Sound Design. Her musical journey of 18 years started with folk songwriting with piano and guitar, where she performed at a variety of venues and toured internationally. She fell in love with electronic music and production in 2018 and has since produced and mixed two electronica records, performed the synthesizer in a free improvisational performance duo, engineered three live records, completed a collaborative multimedia composition with live and post-production sound designing, scored a documentary, and joined a three-piece band where she plays the drums. "These are pieces built from gentle, beatific fragility, their sparseness punctuated by subtle sounds – guitar, electronics, reverb, unplaceable instrumentation, field recordings – with each element given space to develop under Alexandra’s plangent, ruminative vocal." - Further. R adio GoldFlakePaint Sunday Slowdown - 2017 Portland KDUP College Radio - 2017 NWCZ Radio Life Elsewhere Music - 2017 San Diego 91X - 2017 CiTR 101.9FM Radio University of British Columbia - 2017 San Diego FM102.1 KPRI - 2013 ​ ​ ​ ​ "...the arrangement is deeply important to the song–perhaps even more so than the vocal melodies. By focusing on sonic elements that are highly evocative and association-laden, the song marries the historic with the futuristic and wraps it in mystical vibes." - Independent Clauses "There are only so many words in the English language to describe something beautiful. Alluring, elegant, divine, bewitching, sublime, but [Alexandra] Burress has somehow exhausted my vocabulary with her spellbinding music." -The Deli Mag F ilm S cores Lifelines - 2024 (release tba) Growing Pains A Musical Short Film - 2018 Losing in Love - 2016 photos by Hannah Clark Playlists for your enjoyment

  • Music

    W ith W itness During her final semester at Berklee, Alexandra embarked on a 12-week capstone project, a unique collaboration with painter Joni Mueller. The piece compiles digitally transformed and layered audio recordings from their improvised multimedia sessions, resulting in a mesmerizing 30-minute composition. ​ ​ ​ Recorded, produced, and mixed by Alexandra Burress Mastered by Joni Mueller B erklee C apstone P roject

  • Performance

    Musicians: Jeremy Ferrara - acoustic guitar/vocals Will Dowden - drums Joni Mueller - bass Alexandra (Xan) Burress - synth Austin Nevins - electric guitar ​ Shot and edited by Jayden Becker Audio engineered and mixed by Ann Annie Released November 26, 2023 A collection of videos of Our Blue Heaven (Alexandra Burress and Joni Mueller) from a 2-month artist residency in Berlin in the Fall of 2022. They explore improvisations on guitar and the Yamaha Reface CP - a practice in sound design with limitations. more Our Blue Heaven videos here Original Solo Work 2017-2021

  • Alexandra Burress | music production

    A lexandra B urress Electronic Music Producer, composer, & Sound Designer

  • Sound Design

    18 presets designed by Alexandra Burress with Arturia's Prophet-5 V Synthesizer. Sound Design for Video Game Animation DSP for Music & Visuals ⋅ Berklee course 2023 Within this assignment, students were tasked with delineating the sonic world, hit points, dramatic shape, background/ambient sounds, and primary sound design elements for their chosen clip. This comprehensive endeavor was completed within a rigorous three-week timeframe. Students were provided access to raw audio assets, which served as the foundation for crafting the auditory landscape. To achieve this, Alexandra Burress used a variety of audio tools and techniques, including but not limited to Logic Pro X's Alchemy, EQ, Sampler, convolution reverb, Synthesized Impulse Responses (IRs), delay effects, stereo imaging, mid/side processing, binaural panning, mix bus compression, VCA faders, and adaptive limiting. Sound Design for Visual Media: Advertisement Score Sound Design for Electronic Musicians ⋅ Berklee course 2021 Using solely Logic Pro instruments and effects, this was the first scoring project that Alexandra completed while at Berklee. Though it is a shorter and more outdated animation than the above project, she was inspired by the "old school" visuals to create warm, fuzzy pads and plucky synthesizers. Nonlinear Composition 00:00 / 02:07 Ableton Live Techniques: Non-Linear Creative Strategies and Composition Berklee course 2021 ​Using the concept of Prosody to experiment with effect processors, spatial composition, critical listening and assessment in Ableton Live, Alexandra's composition reflects more of her older style, incorporating ethereal vocal performances and songwriting structure. Programming and Producing Drum Beats Advanced Drum Mixing Techniques ⋅ Berklee course 2021 Using a dvanced drum mixing techniques, Alexandra arranged, mixed, and mastered ​this composition for her final assignment for Berklee's Programming and Producing Drum Beats course in 2023. Advanced Drum Mixing 00:00 / 02:42

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