Title: Konrad Birgisson
Age: 17
Hometown: Brooklyn
Now lives: With his relatives in a transformed loft in the Williamsburg community of Brooklyn.
Declare to fame: Mr. Birgisson is a superior college university student and underground tunes producer who, beneath the alias Child Krono, has served produce two buzzworthy hip-hop tracks: “Louis Luggage” by Kanye West (an unreleased track focused to Virgil Abloh), and “Dead Wrong” by EST Gee and Upcoming. His 11th-quality classmates at the Grace Church Faculty in Greenwich Village are unaware of his extracurricular exercise — right until now, possibly. “I’m not a person who really likes to be a loudmouth,” he stated. “But, yeah, I likely should point out what I do to my jazz instructor at the very least.”
Large crack: Mr. Birgisson grew up in a artistic household. His mother, Elisabet Davidsdóttir, is a model turned photographer, and his stepfather, Michael Nevin, owns the Journal Gallery in TriBeCa. He uncovered how to engage in keyboard and use the recording application Logic Professional X at a youthful age, and uploaded his first novice defeat to YouTube when he was 7.
In 2020, when he was a significant faculty freshman, he compiled a aspiration record of musical collaborators and messaged them on social media. 4 months afterwards, Bryan Simmons, an Atlanta producer who goes by the identify TM88, used 1 of his melody loops on “Dead Wrong” by EST Gee. “Once you have that very first breakthrough placement, a large amount of people will commence to want to get the job done with you,” Mr. Birgisson said.
Most recent challenge: Very last calendar year, through Instagram, Mr. Birgisson messaged the producer JW Lucas, who appreciated his audio and asked for melodies for a probable Kanye West keep track of. That’s the last factor Mr. Birgisson read right until February, when he tuned into Mr. West’s “Donda 2” listening party. “About an hour into the livestream, I started off hearing my melody being played out loud,” Mr. Birgisson claimed. “It was unquestionably a person of the most astounding experiences I’ve ever experienced.”
Upcoming detail: Concerning homework and lessons, Mr. Birgisson is operating on “melodies, background drums and synth sounds” for Da Child, Toosii and Tyla Yaweh. He has powerful views about the point out of mainstream audio. “I would really like to go outside the house of the box and increase an experimental part to hip-hop simply because I imagine hip-hop is so generic these days,” he said.
All that jazz: Although his aim has been on hip-hop and R&B, he wants to develop his seem to contain pop and jazz rhythms he has picked up as the drummer in his school’s jazz band. “Obviously, hip-hop is impressed by jazz,” he stated. “So I really do not seriously sense any need to restrict myself to a single genre.”
