Composer and sound artist Nick Norton’s music combines vintage synth grooves, field recordings, acoustic instruments, and studio magic to create tactile sonic experiences. Born in Los Angeles, Nick grew up going to shows in the Ventura County punk scene, playing sax in his school’s jazz band, and spending summers on Catalina Island. He went to college at UC San Diego, where he discovered minimalism, noise rock, and avant garde classical music, and graduate school for composition at King’s College, London, and UC Santa Barbara. Nick was working in live sound when the pandemic hit and shuttered his industry. After moving home he stumbled into an online certificate program in digital audio post production at Santa Monica College. Before long a friend hired him to cut sound for a reality production company, and he started properly building out his studio. Every new piece of gear and every new library of sounds necessitated a new musical experiment. These pieces became his first full length solo album, Music For Sunsets. Nick plays synths in the band Whiler and guitar in The Newports and Honest Iago.