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Upcoming Q1 2026
Sharing Experience Through Sound
Skitter is an experimental pop artist creating music that aims to go beyond words. With a sound that’s introspective, innovative, immersive, and most importantly catchy, Skitter’s work—like the upcoming album Sunken Churches—dives into non-representational ideas, illuminating experience through sound. You'll experience feelings you've never felt before. Based in Reston, VA, Skitter’s journey began at a young age with piano. Throughout the years, involvement in trumpet within a concert band and jazz band, guitar, music theory and composition, and learning the history of electronic music have contributed to forming the unique voice that is Skitter.
When not exploring sound, Skitter can be found hiking, reading, listening to music, indulging in tea, or working on technical projects. Follow the journey on socials or dive into the latest tracks here.
A Look Into the Music Production Process
Every song starts with an idea. Inspiration generally comes from experimentation with tools, ideas, or concepts from art and other music. Songs such as Submerged came to me while waking up in the morning; A frequent mileu for ideas. As ideas arrive throughout the day, I either drop everything and start writing, take notes on the concept, or make a voice recording on my phone sketching out the idea. I tend to get around to working on most of those concepts! As far as voice recordings go, I'm sitting on a few hundred I haven't translated yet.
Everything lands in my composition journals—13-30 minute playgrounds packed with song sketches, sound design, and wild experiments. All nascent writing starts here, and if an idea becomes defined or infectious enough for me to want to turn it into a full song, it earns its own project file. From there, the iterative writing process starts and the project gets added to a list tracking all my projects and their state.
Some of the common synths used throughout my writing process are XFer Serum 2, Synplant 2, Quanta 2, Stage-73 V2, and UVI Grand Piano Model D. Workflow enhancers that save me time are XO, CableGuys Shaperbox, Snapback, and Kickstart. Other plugins I couldn't go without are Delay TAPE-201, MTurboReverb, and Newfangled Saturate. All the rest gets pretty song-dependent, but everything listed here is usually found in my tracks! You’ll hear their fingerprints all over Sunken Churches.