Identify: Konrad Birgisson
Age: 17
Hometown: Brooklyn
Now life: With his family in a transformed loft in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Declare to fame: Mr. Birgisson is a higher university student and underground new music producer who, beneath the alias Child Krono, has assisted generate two buzzworthy hip-hop tracks: “Louis Luggage” by Kanye West (an unreleased monitor dedicated to Virgil Abloh), and “Dead Wrong” by EST Gee and Future. His 11th-quality classmates at the Grace Church College in Greenwich Village are unaware of his extracurricular action — right until now, maybe. “I’m not somebody who really likes to be a loudmouth,” he stated. “But, yeah, I likely should mention what I do to my jazz instructor at least.”
Massive crack: Mr. Birgisson grew up in a artistic household. His mom, Elisabet Davidsdóttir, is a design turned photographer, and his stepfather, Michael Nevin, owns the Journal Gallery in TriBeCa. He realized how to engage in keyboard and use the recording software Logic Pro X at a youthful age, and uploaded his to start with newbie conquer to YouTube when he was 7.
In 2020, when he was a significant school freshman, he compiled a desire record of musical collaborators and messaged them on social media. 4 months later on, Bryan Simmons, an Atlanta producer who goes by the title TM88, utilized a person of his melody loops on “Dead Wrong” by EST Gee. “Once you have that to start with breakthrough placement, a great deal of men and women will begin to want to function with you,” Mr. Birgisson explained.
Most up-to-date challenge: Very last year, via Instagram, Mr. Birgisson messaged the producer JW Lucas, who appreciated his sound and requested for melodies for a probable Kanye West track. That is the past detail Mr. Birgisson listened to till February, when he tuned into Mr. West’s “Donda 2” listening get together. “About an hour into the livestream, I started off listening to my melody staying played out loud,” Mr. Birgisson said. “It was certainly just one of the most awesome ordeals I have at any time had.”
Upcoming issue: In between homework and classes, Mr. Birgisson is doing the job on “melodies, qualifications drums and synth sounds” for Da Toddler, Toosii and Tyla Yaweh. He has potent views about the state of mainstream songs. “I would definitely like to go outside the house of the box and increase an experimental element to hip-hop due to the fact I consider hip-hop is so generic these days,” he explained.
All that jazz: Even though his emphasis has been on hip-hop and R&B, he desires to extend his audio to incorporate pop and jazz rhythms he has picked up as the drummer in his school’s jazz band. “Obviously, hip-hop is encouraged by jazz,” he claimed. “So I don’t really sense any need to have to limit myself to one particular genre.”
