Otago Critic Magazine Interview

Critic Magazine : May 2021

Local Produce: Sam Charlesworth: A Bedroom Is All You Need
Sam Charlesworth is a fresher studying Studio Production, Marine Science, and Te Reo Māori here at Otago. With just “a few mics and an interface,” he has recorded a huge amount of music and has recently started playing gigs around Dunedin.

Sam records all of his songs without using a studio, opting to record in his Selwyn college bedroom. “I’m doing studio production here to try to get studio quality music in my bedroom and save a shit ton of money. You don’t have to pay for an engineer and a producer and all that shit,” he says.  

Although he has been playing the guitar since he was three, Sam hasn’t had any formal musical training. “I kind of taught myself just from fiddling around and trying to figure out how to make different chords. I had a piano lesson when I was like three or something.  I think it gives you a unique approach to music, you can write stuff that people who are more theory based don’t think of because you’re just writing what sounds good to you,” he explains