Finlay Shakespeare is a Bristol-based electronic musician, producer, audio engineer & synth builder.
Born and raised in Gloucester, England, Finlay Shakespeare grew up listening to his parents’ record collection, with Jean-Michel Jarre making a huge impression on the youngster.
His interest in synthesizers was born and after learning to play himself, he started to explore the insides of the machines as well and by his teen’s he was building his own D.I.Y. synths, selling circuit-bent instruments, eventually expanding into eurorack synth modules. Shakespeare later started to make synth parts on a professional basis, creating the company Future Sound Systems and working with the likes of Throbbing Gristle’s Chris Carter to develop a line of Gristelizer components for the modular scene.
Shakespeare’s sound as it is today began to develop in 2017 with the audio diary project ‘Housediet’, which costed of modular synth improvisations improvising accompanied by vocals inspired by international political and social issues. This led to the creation of the album Domestic Economy (2019, Editions Mego), which featured artwork from Nik Void and was mastered by Russell Haswell.
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