NMC’s Music and Audio Tech departments are home to many creative people, and Wren Yaske is one of them. She’s a first-year Audio Tech student and a prolific musician. Born in Gaylord, she plays a variety of instruments, but primarily creates in Logic Pro, a music production software.

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Yaske describes her musical style as Digicore EDM, with significant influence from the Jersey club scene. Her biggest influences are Jane Remover and FKA Twig, and while she has no music out herself as of press time, she is working on an EP under the name Wrendigo, with hopes of releasing it in the future.

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Yaske says her time at NMC has been a boon to her creative output. Beyond the classes, she says that NMC offers not just an amazing space to create, but also to collaborate. “You’re surrounded by creative people,” she said. NMC houses a full recording studio in Founders Hall, and Yaske can often be found there, splicing and dicing her beats together in Studio A.

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I was able to sit in on one of her studio sessions recently. She showed me a few of the many, many projects she was working on. She also showed me something someone else had sent her: a moody alt-rock snippet with layered guitars, fuzzy vocals, and an addictive melody. Over the course of a few hours, I watched her take that snippet and turn it into the beginnings of a glitchy, industrial, EDM beat that would have anybody dancing. I watched it happen, and I still don’t know how she did it.

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It started off rough, but Wren reassured me that “Good food has to be cooked and chopped before it can be served and ate.”

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Yeske also DJs on the side, and she is currently prepping for an upcoming dance at East Hall. The dance is happening on Feb. 7, and is only open to East Hall residents. She’s been refining her setlist and speaking with other students to see what they want to hear. “I’m in my bubble, I just listen to what I listen to,” she said, “so it’s hard to know what people like.”

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She takes her role as a DJ seriously and wants everyone to get something special out of it. She wants everyone to have a moment with a song.

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Yeske talked about DJing like it was an almost sacred duty. She described the importance of keeping a balance between playing songs you want to hear and songs the audience wants to hear.

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Yeske is just one of the many talented artists we have here at NMC. There are countless others. The NMC Music Department is a hotbed for incredible creatives, each of them working on what could so easily be the next big thing.