{"id":8547,"date":"2020-04-06T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:07:03","slug":"i-love-to-make-things-on-my-own-niko-gulam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=8547","title":{"rendered":"“I love to make things on my own!”- Niko Gulam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Exclusive interview with Niko Gulam -Editor & DJ<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Niko Gulam, born in Split, Croatia, 1991., started his film career in 2005, as video editor of the short videos made from the footage of multiplayer FPS games. Except for video and animation, he was also showing interest in making electronic music trough different audio software. After a few years of video and sound editing, while learning Adobe After Effects as a hobby, he graduates from high school and enrolls in Arts Academy of the University of Split. Since 2012, during the 3 years of studying Film & Video, he was participating in a lot of student projects as a sound editor and the field recordist. For his college assignments, except the sound, a lot of projects involved different animation techniques, like stop animation combined with 3D and Adobe After Effects skills.
After getting a bachelor’s degree in the Academy of Split in 2016, he decides to move in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, where he was working on a few television shows as a drone camera operator and a sound recording engineer. As he fancied the job and had the sense for sound production, after a year of work, in 2017, he got in the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb, for a master’s degree in sound design. At the beginning of 2020, he graduated in the field of spatial acoustics, while his artistic part of the graduate thesis was the sound design for the animation “Zdravotvorci” – “The Healthmakers”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: What is your music background? Do\nyou write your own songs?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have\nstarted to make electronic music at the age of 13. At the time I was making\ndrum’n’bass but just after I got into it, the drum’n’bass scene (especially\ntechnoid subgenre which I preferred) at the time kind of died, and so I gave up\non making it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a\nlong time, I wasn’t making any music as I was busy with sound design for movies\nand college. Just a few attempts from time to time, trying to find myself in\ndifferent genres like rap, metal, dub, and deep house…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the\nlast 4 years I’ve started my psytrance DJ career as “Atomic Hive”,\nand in the last few months, after I graduated, I’ve finally come back to music\nproduction, but this time of psytrance, now hopefully for serious, as I finally\nfound the genre that i enjoy to make and to play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is\nmy Sound cloud profile \nhttps:\/\/soundcloud.com\/470mic , except two DJ mixes, there is one old\ndeep house track of mine which i like, the sound of it and the way it came out,\nso there it is, actually completed track that I can show you. (I decided to\nkeep metal for myself) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: How important is image?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\nthink of reputation (I hope I got this right) I think it’s somewhat important.\nI mean, it’s one of the intangible assets and it’s important for the\nfreelancers like me. Based on the image we get the job each other day, the\ndecision of the offerer is sometimes based only upon someone’s else\nrecommendation (maybe people who already have a good reputation) and not the\nreal facts like portfolio, unfortunately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But for\nsome other people who have a permanent job, or maybe don’t need a job, I guess\nfor them it’s about an individual’s preference. I mean, it makes me feel good\nif people have a good opinion about me, and I feel good if I do the job right,\nbut someone else may not care about either of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam:What image do you think your music\nconveys?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the\nsound for the animation that I graduated with, I decided to make the soundtrack\nof a combination of all recorded samples of foley and voices that have been\nused in that animation. I have made a simple beat and put those samples in\nrhythm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think\nthat one particularly sends the message that we should not ever lose our sense\nof humor, or to forget to have fun while working, as that is our most creative\nstate of mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam:Describe your style. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love\nsci-fi, futurism, and technology, I also love nature and naturalism.I respect\nholiness, admire light and the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Often\ntrying to combine the opposite – digital, binary, hi-tech sounds, with the\nsound of the forest. Ambient sounds carried by the fast beat, distorted sound\ngrinded by the slow beat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dark\natmospheres that arise from hell, while angelic choirs descend from heaven,\nfighting to prevail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I\nguess my style is antonymic, a bit hardcore, sometimes epic, but it may not\nbe… I’m versatile after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam:What are you currently working on?\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, as a sound designer, I am working on two short movie projects from Croatia. Other than that, I’m always trying to find or to record good samples that you never know when you’re going to need it. I’m also working on my psytrance track and the video editing for my aerial recording showreel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NY Glam: What inspired this project and\nwho did you work with? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ndirector of one short movie was inspired by the person who is getting stuck in\nbetween smoking weed all day, and the inability to move from the dead center\nwhile the unemployment problem in Croatia persist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 NY\nGlam:How do you define success?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one\nwho creates, who makes progress, who can do what he loves and his job is not causing\nany harm to others while the product of the job is to help others, who lives by\nthe rules of nature, who speaks the truth from the heart and encourages others\nto do all of above, succeeds in life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam:Can you share with us any of your\nmemorable performances?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I always\nlove to remember the first projection of my feature-length music documentary\ncalled Sinj City, which is about rock scene and situation in my hometown called\nSinj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: Which instruments do you play if\nany?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\noccasionally play an electronic keyboard on which I load different sounds with\nvirtual instruments (VST). There is no rule in choosing the sound. One day you\ncan find me play violin on it, some other days I’m making weird alien noises\nwith it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes\nI’m making beats on my Korg padKontrol MIDI, so you can say I’m playing drums?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be\nhonest, I’m not a connoisseur of notes, I don’t have any music education, apart\nfrom experience from my attempts and my hearing. I can’t say I’m playing any\ninstrument for real, but somehow, I always had a sense of making a fair sound\nfrom various instruments, even at the first try. I like weird and unusual\ninstruments especially. I do however prefer wind instrument over the string\nones, so I play “shitty flute”…but also a bass guitar, sometimes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: What other hobbies do you have?\nAre there any causes that you support? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love\nto make things on my own. Anything I need or I want will first try to avoid\nspending money on it by looking is it possible to make it with my own two\nhands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except\nfor motorcycles and any other possible vehicles, some extreme sports and\nwalking my dog near rivers or in the mountains, most of my hobbies are on the\nPC. I still love FPS games when I manage to spare some extra time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DJ-ing,\nhanging out, making parties and festivals by the two collectives that I’m in.\nHowever, music and sound editing is my favorite hobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can say that I have that luck, that my favorite hobby is my job, for then I can say I’m successful in life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: What are your long-term career\ngoals?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would\nlike to keep developing in the career that i have chosen on the college, and\nthat is sound. l would love to do some sound recording for the bigger\nproductions outside Croatia. Also, would love to do sound design on more\nquality projects, especially sci-fi movies or anything similar, something where\nI could unleash my creativity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam:What’s next? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To do my best in not trying to control the future so much, allowing fate to do its work, and allowing myself to concentrate more on the present while maintaining productivity in these dark moments of our lives that we wish not to speak of, as too much has been spoken every day.


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