A Short History Of You?

[crazed one]

Not much to tell....

Good shit xoxos!

not much to tell, and what there is isn't going to do anyone any good.

seriously, the root of my 'musicality' is being born to an civilised (welsh) mother and my father, if you caught that story.

music captured my imagination hehe as a child, witnessing how important it was to people, eventually that awareness developed into a desire to change the mileu, since i am unable to find one that permits my self an habitat where i can live w/ out being pumped up the ass by asshole shitheads of the universe.

but that's a given :p and i reckon i express my awareness thereof frequently..

the technical story isn't any more exciting. during my institutional education, i sang when i was little (moved to u.s. in '80 at age of 10 for your notes) played contrabass w/o enthusiasm and dubbed speech between tape cassettes with little more :p

went to college for architecture, for the same reason i played bass.. when i was young i did what i thought i was supposed to most of the time. i'd taken drafting as an elective and didn't need to think about it to accomplish assignments.

my mother's father managed the lloyd's in rhymney, so they could afford to send me to the local uni. that lasted about 5 minutes, my free ride disappeared, and i've been culturally disaffected ever since.

the first year after flunking college i spent at arcosanti, since the tuition then was $400, and now i'm pretty much guaranteed a home and a job should i need it. i wouldn't bother now.. tuition's doubled at least, and paolo can only live so long.

i played a rack of $20 fx pedals (feeding a 2nd hand hondo strat thru them) w/ band 'bread horse..' we were in the kitchen and performed bibliomancy w/ 'the joy of cooking.' nice band name (well orig. 'birthday bread horse' but is to much..) i was and am a shite instrumentalist.. i can 'play,' but overall lack the physical presence and desire to be an instrumentalist.

'story' there is our only off-arcology gig, i was in the foundry and a shovel fight broke out, someone sliced one of my fingers to the bone that morning, i played the show in the evening. didn't affect my sound..

moved to seattle to battle culture, decided to come back to tucson to use my roots. spent a while in the 'art scene' (tucson's ~ "cultured") started "Fractal Chaos Collective.." eg. an "F.C.C." label that anyone could put on their flyers. had an i.d. card that said "i am elton taft" that got me discount movie tickets once :p

music was like.. and we did some shows.. a dozen non-musicians w/ array of objects, maybe just spinning a frank sinatra record around et c. just before i left the arcology i had enuff to buy a tascam424 (cassette 4-track) so i was popular.

g/f hooked me up with a deal on a used mirage.. "holy shit!" used that, the 4-track, a qx21 sequencer and a boss se-50 for ~6 years.. i 'dropped out' and spent all my time with that setup..

in my late 20s i started getting credit offers.

after a couple of years of accepting every credit offer i could attract, i had my lurvely h/w collection. perhaps it should be understood that communiction vs. survival.. my "you people are stupid and need immediate assistance" instinct totally beat te shit out of my survival instinct.

so had the synths, couple fx boxes, kawai q80 sequencer and a fostex dmt-8 until someone upgraded to cubase and sent me their copy of logic4 for free

then everything changed with vst. everybody and their grandmother is making tracks so the strategic importance of having gear was nullified. that's why i got behind se.. democratisation of the contemporary methods of communication. different mileu, same agenda. imo still moving towards the next stage.. a 'diverse forum of voices' instead of the authoritative, centralised idols. cecentralise authority!!! disempower the megastructures!

i have a memory of being 18, and observing that memes presented musically seemed huge.. eg. diana ross really feels love. how can real life compete with all the glamour of contrivancy? songs on albums were like special runes when you're a powerless consumer robot.. you have special songs for this, songs for that.. and you keep them all in a special collection that must contain the finest editions.. :p

*yawn*

seriously, you could have guessed all of that and saved yourself a minute. seeing culture change is my only interest. i'm no fun at parties, i'm lousy conversation (but can fake it for a bit if it serves) resentment is the totality of my being, which is why my name means "hymn of destruction" in sanskrit. i'm an embodied universal genius of destruction and i'm here because humanity was too stupid to prevent me coming.

so party on dudes.

pictorial v:
http://home.earthlink.net/~plattermatic ... useum.html

[Equilibrium]

Went to Jazz gigs with my dad as a kid. age 11 spent my birthday money on Living Through Chemistry - Fat Boy Slim and Entroducing - DJ Shadow. That was it for me it was all about beats.

Took up drums at age 12 and practiced my arse off. Then moved house and learned piano from a guy who actually was a big member here, (he had about 1000 posts I think and was called the Jpeg Master or something like that) learned loads from him and am going to study under him again.

Bought a soundcard and some software and tried to make some breaks that sounded more hip hop than funk if that makes sense. Sped them up to DnB speed and got a wicked sound.

[donkey tugger]

Took up drums at age 12 and practiced my arse off. Then moved house and learned piano from a guy who actually was a big member here, (he had about 1000 posts I think and was called the Jpeg Master or something like that) learned loads from him and am going to study under him again.

DeWaverley?, aka, the Gifmeister? Tell the twat to get his arse back on k-v-r.

[clueless]

not much to tell, and what there is isn't going to do anyone any good.

seriously, the root of my 'musicality' is being born to an civilised (welsh) mother and my father, if you caught that story.

music captured my imagination hehe as a child, witnessing how important it was to people, eventually that awareness developed into a desire to change the mileu, since i am unable to find one that permits my self an habitat where i can live w/ out being pumped up the ass by asshole shitheads of the universe.

but that's a given :p and i reckon i express my awareness thereof frequently..

the technical story isn't any more exciting. during my institutional education, i sang when i was little (moved to u.s. in '80 at age of 10 for your notes) played contrabass w/o enthusiasm and dubbed speech between tape cassettes with little more :p

went to college for architecture, for the same reason i played bass.. when i was young i did what i thought i was supposed to most of the time. i'd taken drafting as an elective and didn't need to think about it to accomplish assignments.

my mother's father managed the lloyd's in rhymney, so they could afford to send me to the local uni. that lasted about 5 minutes, my free ride disappeared, and i've been culturally disaffected ever since.

the first year after flunking college i spent at arcosanti, since the tuition then was $400, and now i'm pretty much guaranteed a home and a job should i need it. i wouldn't bother now.. tuition's doubled at least, and paolo can only live so long.

i played a rack of $20 fx pedals (feeding a 2nd hand hondo strat thru them) w/ band 'bread horse..' we were in the kitchen and performed bibliomancy w/ 'the joy of cooking.' nice band name (well orig. 'birthday bread horse' but is to much..) i was and am a shite instrumentalist.. i can 'play,' but overall lack the physical presence and desire to be an instrumentalist.

'story' there is our only off-arcology gig, i was in the foundry and a shovel fight broke out, someone sliced one of my fingers to the bone that morning, i played the show in the evening. didn't affect my sound..

moved to seattle to battle culture, decided to come back to tucson to use my roots. spent a while in the 'art scene' (tucson's ~ "cultured") started "Fractal Chaos Collective.." eg. an "F.C.C." label that anyone could put on their flyers. had an i.d. card that said "i am elton taft" that got me discount movie tickets once :p

music was like.. and we did some shows.. a dozen non-musicians w/ array of objects, maybe just spinning a frank sinatra record around et c. just before i left the arcology i had enuff to buy a tascam424 (cassette 4-track) so i was popular.

g/f hooked me up with a deal on a used mirage.. "holy shit!" used that, the 4-track, a qx21 sequencer and a boss se-50 for ~6 years.. i 'dropped out' and spent all my time with that setup..

in my late 20s i started getting credit offers.

after a couple of years of accepting every credit offer i could attract, i had my lurvely h/w collection. perhaps it should be understood that communiction vs. survival.. my "you people are stupid and need immediate assistance" instinct totally beat te shit out of my survival instinct.

so had the synths, couple fx boxes, kawai q80 sequencer and a fostex dmt-8 until someone upgraded to cubase and sent me their copy of logic4 for free

then everything changed with vst. everybody and their grandmother is making tracks so the strategic importance of having gear was nullified. that's why i got behind se.. democratisation of the contemporary methods of communication. different mileu, same agenda. imo still moving towards the next stage.. a 'diverse forum of voices' instead of the authoritative, centralised idols. cecentralise authority!!! disempower the megastructures!

i have a memory of being 18, and observing that memes presented musically seemed huge.. eg. diana ross really feels love. how can real life compete with all the glamour of contrivancy? songs on albums were like special runes when you're a powerless consumer robot.. you have special songs for this, songs for that.. and you keep them all in a special collection that must contain the finest editions.. :p

*yawn*

seriously, you could have guessed all of that and saved yourself a minute. seeing culture change is my only interest. i'm no fun at parties, i'm lousy conversation (but can fake it for a bit if it serves) resentment is the totality of my being, which is why my name means "hymn of destruction" in sanskrit. i'm an embodied universal genius of destruction and i'm here because humanity was too stupid to prevent me coming.

so party on dudes.

pictorial v:
http://home.earthlink.net/~plattermatic ... useum.html

thought so

[bluedad]

Took up drums at age 12 and practiced my arse off. Then moved house and learned piano from a guy who actually was a big member here, (he had about 1000 posts I think and was called the Jpeg Master or something like that) learned loads from him and am going to study under him again.

DeWaverley?, aka, the Gifmeister? Tell the twat to get his arse back on k-v-r.

indeed!

[Wopelka]

what a nice thread

bump deserved.

i'll fill in the form asap.

[cptgone]

1969 - i was born as a real 69er, product of the 60s

1980s: took guitar classes for 1 year, had to do 2 years of classical musical education too (and hated that part of it)

1987: bought a 2nd hand guitar and formed The Chicken Fist f**kers.
check my site if you wanna hear us.

1992: band split up. started reading about soft studio's and synths, couldn't afford anything though

1995: finally left my girlfriend, so I finally had some money
got my first PC and Cubase Lite.
PC soundcards for synthesis and effects.

2001: my first VSTi: Halion!

eversince that I've bought far too many VSTi's and I've had far too little time to mess with them. but it's still great fun!

[putte]

born in 1974 as a boy of rather wealthy parents i lived a normal western-kiddie life, with lots of sports. (tennis, handball, squash, football).
it seemed as if sports "was the thing for our son", so my dad hyped me in it.

as we´re not a musical family at all my parents though tried (i think all the mum´s and dad´s did that here with their kids) to put me into a music-school, for 2 times a week. i had to play the "glockenspiel", but at the 2nd or 3rd time i went there i started crying all the time. i hated doing that music, it was horrible to me. so my parents took me out again and thought "okay, we tried it with music as well. but he´s into sports as it seems" ..

what i always did though was to hum and to sing, wherever i was. Then, i was about 8 or 9, i heard my first breakbeat in the radio. it wasnt really a hitsong i heard there, therefor i cant remember it .. *sigh* (i´d love to remember it).
And this moment was very special to me, as it lit the fire.

from that on i tried to simulate drums with my mouth, and played "virtual drumkits" with my fingers imagining that each finger would represent a sound .. (sure, drummachines were already invenented, but i didnt know).

so the music inside me started to breathe ..

i practiced the years to do my human beatbox thingie, and got into rap music in the late 80´s, early 90´s.
Still being the sportskid my life completely changed when i was 16. i read one of these books about "hey! What are the REAL values in life? Arent we all just way too superficial? Change you life, man!" and stuff .. shortly after reading it i started smoking weed .. .. and started writing. and yes, my first band started, with me as singer. no more sports, just music, thoughts and the joints.

as i could only sing back then i got myself an acoustic gitar and tried to learn playing it via some pictures about how to place the fingers for getting chords.
with 17 my band quit, and i thought its all over now. but fortunately a new band formed in my school, and i could go on singing.

at that time, i was 18 (12 years ago), i got into a rap band as they wanted me to do the human beatbox on stage. i said yes, and then my crash course with music industry started. we had a deal with virgin records for 2 years. released 3 single´s .. and all of them flopped big time ..
they had an EPS16+ sampler from ensoniq, and forced me to work with it.
(in the beginning i really said: f**k of with that synthetic shit .. ihhih)

but one night with this sampler changed everything! i just realized that i could simulate a whole band just on my own: beats, bass, melodies etc. ..

after 5 years i quit the band (23 then), and started making my solo music with a 10mb ensoniq asr-10 and atari st with cubase and creator. that was when i did my seepferdchen-album, which got me some respect and also some jobs for commercials.

in 2000 i was asked if i´d do a score for a shortfilm, and by that my current job started, making music for films. from year to year this got better, and now i am really happy as it pays my life and still let me do my own stuff. (my 2 bands and my solo-stuff).

puhh .. long story, i hope it wasnt too long ..

putte

[CypherOne]

nah that's a cool story putte, if only mine was anywhere near as interesting.

[jens]

What was the name of that rap-band, Putte?

[putte]

What was the name of that rap-band, Putte?

super sonnig ..

[jens]

you're lucky today - I don't know them or at least can't remember them so your credibility is safe for now

[declassified]

My story is sort of different to the others here...

I was born in 1987 and i wasn't involved in music at all until an age of nine. When i was nine, i was into pop music of the cheaper kind which is normally heard by 16-year-olds. I also began taking piano lessons and learned heaps of baroque/classic stuff like Mozart,Bach,Chopin,Tschaikowski,etc.
The rest of my family is not musically ambitioned at all, but they sad i was good. So there was practically no reason to change.
By the way, i planned several kinds of computer games on paper, most of them were released by others later ("Republic - The Revolution", for example).

When i was 14, i was hit by the blues. It had a deep influence on me. I couldn't play Bach without the swingy blues groove anymore. My teacher went mad, though.
Abandoned piano lessons, stopped learning, played the same blues stuff again and again.
The perfect talented piano children was made a dirty, rebellious geezer. But i felt good making music for the first time!
Started listenening to blues and later on to jazz. Found new jazz-oriented teacher. I listened to the same music i made.
Finally, on my 17th birthday (january 2004), i got a cheap $15 mic and recorded four long piano improvisations.
I started to use my computer for music and i have been producing until now, which was for about eight months.

Tell me if you like it

[xoxos]

i'll fill in the form asap.

there is a land not far from the ears of sound the eyes of sight can't see..

trees, anyone?

[Wopelka]

i'll fill in the form asap.

there is a land not far from the ears of sound the eyes of sight can't see..

trees, anyone?

i don't get what you mean, but i like this sentence very much. sig. hope you don't mind.