Meet Shane Williams | Electronic Ambient Music producer/composer.

We had the good fortune of connecting with Shane Williams and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Shane, why did you pursue a creative career?
I chose a creative career because of my passion for creating and my love of music. Creating music allows me to express my influences, thoughts, and ideas. My perspective is derived from years of travel, living in Nepal, and the diversity of cultural influences. My objective is to produce music that’s conducive to healing, relaxation, meditation, and yoga, hopefully, it helps someone somewhere. I take a lot of inspiration from Indian Classical music, Tibetan singing bowls, nature sounds and cosmic space, I then attempt to massage them into a cohesive idea using sound design with digital and analog synthesizers and effects giving the listener a sense of floating in space. This path has not been easy, a musician on Spotify may earn ..003 cents on a stream. But seeing that people love listening to your music is very gratifying and validating.

I have been a musician since I was a kid and ultimately started studying the Indian drum, Tabla. I have had the privilege of studying with world-renowned Tabla masters over the years. During this time I worked in Outdoor retail, climbing guide, and yoga training until a back injury put me out of work. I studied online classes at Berklee College of Music for music production from there. This brought me to the timeline I am at now, composing, producing, and releasing Electronic Ambient Music.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
I wear all of the hats in the studio. Songwriter, producer, mixing engineer, sound designer, graphics artist, social media manager, computer engineer and as of recently content creator for meditation music on YouTube. I think my music is unique in the sense that I use field recordings from traveling in Nepal and other places to utilize in my productions. For example, the sound of waterfalls, or a trickling river, and even birds from the jungle and Monks chanting are used a lot in my music. I have used many methods to get these recordings even though they can be challenging sometimes.

Since being interested in music my whole life, I have learned to play many different instruments which ultimately helps the creative aspect and has taken me to where I am now. Some of the most difficult challenges were building a professional studio, and getting the sound of the room correct. but also getting adept at the software required to take on such an endeavor. In the meantime having a child in the studio and writing music is challenging. So, that motivated me to try to teach him about the studio and instruments, which is still an ongoing process.

I’ve learned that no matter how much time and energy you put into your music, people still may never hear it. Social media has become a very important tool these days, and one does not need a giant record label to succeed or to get heard, but social media doesn’t guarantee success either. One has to have a bit of narcissism and confidence to be able to constantly push their music to the public.

My moniker “Third Eye Sound”, came to me from years of practicing yoga, meditation and learning Indian Classical Music, plus it sounds better than using my own name. I wanted to convey a brand of music conducive to opening the subconscious. In Nepal or India, this may be called “Nada Yoga”. Using music for expanding consciousness. I use and record a lot of Tibetan Singing bowls that are used in sound healing, the bowls are handmade in Nepal and create a sense of serenity and well-being which is perfect for utilizing in my niche as well as other Indigenous instruments, for example, the Aboriginal didgeridoo or the Indian bamboo flute, Bansuri add cultural spice to my music. For sound design, I use a Waldorf Iridium synthesizer, Korg Wavestate, ASM Hydrasynth, all of the Native Instruments VST ( Virtual Studio Technology) , Arturia VST, and Ableton Live software for music production. For effects I use all Valhalla VST, Waves, Native Instruments and Arturia, along with many diverse microphones. I also use a custom PC with Windows pro 11, I use a Crosshair v11 motherboard with Ryzen 7 CPU and, a m2.2 1TB SSD drive along with other external drives for backup. For my audio card, I use a Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 [3rd Gen]. For screens I use 3 Acer monitors for lots of real estate, and 2 Mackie MR 8 studio pro audio monitors and an Arturia MK111 midi controller. My little studio is constantly evolving with new tech and hardware / software synths. I used to mix with an Allen and Heath GL 2400 mixing board, but it took up the whole desk, so I’ve converted over to just using the Focusrite audio card with ADAT to mix with.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
Coffee, I love coffee, that’s the first thing. We’d go to Trident coffee shop on Pearl Street Mall in Boulder and have a delicious cup of coffee. Then We’d take off on our mountain bikes with our climbing shoes and ride up to Mount Sanitas hiking trail and do a little bouldering, then we’d head down to Efrains and eat amazing Mexican food. The next day after breakfast at Dot’s Diner on 28th street, and then head up to Rocky Mountain National Park and hike up to Lake Haiyaha. and maybe if we had time go to Emerald Lake.

The next few days would be exploring hiking trails along Hwy 36 north of Boulder, and definitely hitting The Tandoori Grille in South Boulder for some samosas, Tibetan momo, and tandoori chicken, the best in Boulder.

Later in the week we would drive up to Walkers Ranch and do a 7-mile mountain bike loop, epic single track, and gorgeous views of the mountains. Then, for rest days, BBQ at home and eat delicious Nepali food made by my wife.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
My wife, Siswan Tuladhar, has been supportive of me throughout my creative endeavors. She as an immigrant from Nepal has shown me perseverance, not only did she have to learn another language, but became a business owner in Boulder, The Nail Studio, and has helped me learn her language, and through her culture, I have gained cultural knowledge that integrates into my music production. Her Nepalese culture is now engrained in me and serves as a daily inspiration. I can’t imagine not having that cultural perspective.

Website: https://thirdeyesound.bandcamp.com/music

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/third.eye.sound/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thirdeyesounds

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbWdn1d2M6qkDMuH-vI7KKA

Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5lEhMs6a0kC9gA3pS2KypK