About me
Actually...I don't really want the whole world to read about my personal life, so I'll just tell you a tad about my musical background...
My first musical memories; We had a nice old piano at home when I was young, and it used to be great fun to bash the keys and get yelled at. After that i moved on to bashing the keys of my Grandmother's electric organ, often with the help of my older sister; we'd take turns between crawling/jumping on the pedals, hitting keys and trying different instrument combinations. My biggest fascination was the snare roll button.
I received piano and singing lessons as I grew up, but always had much greater interest in electronica, and eventually started learning from and exchanging jam sessions with an old friend. I started by utilising a hacky method of controlling an old wave-form editor, adding sample layers to my friend's work live while he was jamming. This idea took off for a short while, but at times was a little too hard to control, so i started to work on a basis of recording small things and piecing them together on an individual waveform scale. Again, this was not ideal, but this time because it was quite slow. From here I briefly used a few "brand name" music audio applications, but found most of them thoroughly flawed my purposes. I have become at home in a mod-tracker, but I would not say I am a "k0r3 tracker", for lack of better words (in joke, anyone?). Whilst I've found a balance in renoise between highly technical programming and simple jamming it has only been sufficient, still not quite perfect. Recently I've added a vintage Yamaha CS-30 analogue monosynth to the pile and managed to connect it up to Renoise via a nifty midi to CV converter. It has proven very useful thusfar, but I'm still in the teething stages of using outboard gear.
I am working towards the playing of the type of music on this site live so the whole process is always evolving, I couldn't state a single approach for making a song that I prefer; some of the content is even extracted from old jam sessions... can you pick it?
I could list pages of influences, but you get influenced by everything you are ever exposed to, whether you like it or not - so it would be biased to list only the things I noted a positive influence from. Lets just say I've heard a fair bit of music from most of the genres known to mankind and leave it at that.
Oh, and I dig Beethoven.
My first musical memories; We had a nice old piano at home when I was young, and it used to be great fun to bash the keys and get yelled at. After that i moved on to bashing the keys of my Grandmother's electric organ, often with the help of my older sister; we'd take turns between crawling/jumping on the pedals, hitting keys and trying different instrument combinations. My biggest fascination was the snare roll button.
I received piano and singing lessons as I grew up, but always had much greater interest in electronica, and eventually started learning from and exchanging jam sessions with an old friend. I started by utilising a hacky method of controlling an old wave-form editor, adding sample layers to my friend's work live while he was jamming. This idea took off for a short while, but at times was a little too hard to control, so i started to work on a basis of recording small things and piecing them together on an individual waveform scale. Again, this was not ideal, but this time because it was quite slow. From here I briefly used a few "brand name" music audio applications, but found most of them thoroughly flawed my purposes. I have become at home in a mod-tracker, but I would not say I am a "k0r3 tracker", for lack of better words (in joke, anyone?). Whilst I've found a balance in renoise between highly technical programming and simple jamming it has only been sufficient, still not quite perfect. Recently I've added a vintage Yamaha CS-30 analogue monosynth to the pile and managed to connect it up to Renoise via a nifty midi to CV converter. It has proven very useful thusfar, but I'm still in the teething stages of using outboard gear.
I am working towards the playing of the type of music on this site live so the whole process is always evolving, I couldn't state a single approach for making a song that I prefer; some of the content is even extracted from old jam sessions... can you pick it?
I could list pages of influences, but you get influenced by everything you are ever exposed to, whether you like it or not - so it would be biased to list only the things I noted a positive influence from. Lets just say I've heard a fair bit of music from most of the genres known to mankind and leave it at that.
Oh, and I dig Beethoven.