quoted 5 lines I think this guff about Mr James "making his own instruments" is a bit of>I think this guff about Mr James "making his own instruments" is a bit of
>a laff really. There are lots of other capable musicians doing exactly
>that. On this IDM list, there's Todd Sines, Rob Williams, and muself who
>do exactly this sort of thing, but we don't brag about it to the Press
>(unless some journos happen to be reading IDM....damn! :^P )
i don't make my own instruments because i have barely scratched the
surface of some of my equipment. ever try programming a Wavestation?
that thing has SO much complexity, i don't even want to begin to talk
about it. besides, i still make interesting new sounds with some old
gear that is quite limited. and if that gets dull, you can always
take your amazing sound that you made on a synth and sample it and use
the sampler's guts to twist it. if that's still too boring, there's
always Turbosynth - a program for the Mac that can take arbitrary
sound files and perform incredibly weird manipulations on them.
given that we have so much raw sound material and so many ways to fold
spindle and mutilate it, building new boxes seems like a waste of
time.
/jon