For myself, I have been making electronic music for 15+ yrs now (Aaaah I feel
old!), collecting synths etc. as time went by. I got a bedroom studio set up,
found a way of working that suited me, and made music. Some Time Later: I
found
I was using the same sounds over and over, but also that when I tried to use
different synths/sounds - they didn't sound 'right'.
So I took a break of about a year... Everything felt so fresh when I picked it
up again, it was great! Just recently I've changed my working methods again;
doing what I thought I would never do - creating music solely in my PC.
Basically, everything I've done in the last 6 months or so has been
designed to
be performed; in a lot of cases the music is simply a collection of fragments
until I do a gig, when it becomes a 'track'... Live stuff is all driven from a
sampler playing long loops (up to 10). Each loop is played through it's own
output of the sampler, and I use a mixer to sculpt the loops on the fly; a
couple of effects units complete the live rig, and allow for a little more
improvisational space.
I suppose the live-performance aspect addresses the question of 'when is the
music finished?' - in my case, a lot of the time the track is not
really 'written' until the performance... I know it'll work, it's just how
everything is going to be arranged that needs to be sorted out...!
Something I'm playing with at the moment is asynchronous loops - creating an a
more evolving soundscape, rather than the more danceable stuff I'm currently
doing.
There are three live recordings (edited for length) on my website - see
http://www.namke.com/audio/ [nloop, tript, and f(x)].
cheers,
john..
http://www.namke.com/
out now: 'available from namke communications' 5 track CDr from Fencing
Flatworm Recordings (
http://www.fencingflatworm.cjb.net/)
upcoming gigs: march 24th (Leeds Packhorse) & 29th (York, Junction)
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Quoting echomatrix <lackeya1@umbc.edu>:
> hi all..
>
> i'm curious what my fellow artists are up to, creatively... i'm
> not trying to steal ideas b/c most of everything has already
> been done to an extent and now music (it seems to me, i
> could be wrong) is more about mixing elements in a new way
> or putting your own twist on things...
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