Composer and Electronic Artist Deru’s Latest Single is All About “Metal // Skin // Cones”

Los Angeles-based composer and producer, Benjamin Wynn, better known to many by his stage name Deru, seems to always be hard at work. The Emmy Award-winning artist has worked on the animated TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender and Kung Fu Panda: Legend of Awesomeness, has worked with institutions such as The Paris Opera Ballet, and presently works with The Echo Society as the Creative Director.

Well, not one to ever cease his pursuit of creative exploration, the electronic/ambient artist is back, today, with a brand new single titled “Metal // Skin // Cones.” The tune is out today and follows his October 2018 release, Torn In Two (Friends of Friends). His latest offering is less drone-heavy than his last release, and explores, according to a recent press release, both “…the harmonics of instruments and interplay between different drum sounds relayed through a typical listeners speaker system.”

“Metal // Skin // Cones” will find itself on an upcoming compilation album courtesy of The Echo Society due out on April 28th.

Speaking of the song, Deru notes, “‘Metal // Skin // Cones’ was written for four percussionists surrounding the audience. Each musician plays a bass drum, snare drum, brake drum and cymbal, and they each have a loudspeaker next to them. The players’ instruments were analyzed for their spectral content so that the sounds coming out of the speakers next to them were derived from the harmonics of the instruments themselves, the goal being a smooth morph between real and imagined. The piece is about texture, aggression, disorientation, and spatial awareness.”

Artwork form “Metal / Skin / Cones” by Deru