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...of your music is planned out, and how much is an experiment in sound? a lot of my early stuff is litterally just me trying to make cool sounds and mix them in some kind of cohesive format. as i'm getting more and more experienced my "experimentation" can sometimes falter by the wayside how do you work musically? do you go from a set of ideas and restraints (dark, beat driven, etc etc etc) or do you just go with the flow? and how do you keep yourself working in that kind of workflow? |
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I know what I want to make, then I make it. |
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I want to concentrate on short, catch,y nicely structured tracks that last about four minutes. No noodling or excess riffage, just the ESSENTIAL. |
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If I find a track going badly, I order a cake designed to look like my laptop running FLOOPS and then wait until indigestion inspires me. |
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nothing is planned, but I do occasionally get, like, the idea that I'll try and make, for instance, a happy sad song using nothing but recordings of my voice.. that doesn't mean I know what the song will turn out like, though. |
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are you generally pleased with the results that you get from working in a freeform kind of way, or do you find yourself going back and continually tweaking things? |
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i cant plan anything, i can't structure my self or objectively write a piece. but i'm not trying to be experimental, i just do it when i'm in the mood. i'll make short scribbles and sketches, often never go back to them. if i'm making a full track, i usually get the bulk of it done in one mammoth session. |
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lol |
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i usually end up with a lot of unfinished stuff, but i always end up for example starting a track, and then leaving it for a few months before coming back to it and adding to it makes it difficult to pin down creative "eras" |
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it's not like it everr has to be finished. |
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dont you find going back to a track after a period, you lose most of the momentum? |
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sometimes....but then again there's many times when i'm making a track and i get stuff for ideas on how to expand it, or continue it and then a few months later i'll have another bash at it and end up finishing the track. i feel it gives me a different perspective i don't think it's good to spend days and days on end working on the same track...i feel that would breed staleness |
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You do all that and then you think "Hang on, what would Enigma do.... ?" |
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It depends, sometimes a whole track emerges from noodlings, but usually I have a sound in my head, or I compose the main drum beat and/or synthline on note paper and just work variations around it on the gear/PC. I've gotten a lot better at getting the melody/rhythm in my head down in the past couple of years. I can also do most synth sounds that I hear in my head, aside from the really long drawn out morphing ones that switch between pad and rhythmic ones. |
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every track is a different experiment in sound and time. for electronic musicians i think it is imperative you take full advantage of every possible sound wave, effect the sound in every possible way and combine those sounds with other chaotic experiments you've done... no track i finish is ever "finished"... i suppose they are finished when i finally get to experiment on stage in front of avid listeners. |
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well, when I get a finished track, I'm usually pleased, but as with all artists, there are lots and lots of silly half finished tracks and three second loops that never go anywhere... |
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I almost never 'noodle' because frankly I don't really enjoy the music making process that much. I usually only make stuff when I have some sort of new idea or am really inspired by something.. sort of a means to an end. That's why the concept of 'music-making forums' is utterly uninteresting to me because it's focusing on elements of the process I don't feel is as important. For others, it's almost exclusively important, like people who read Guitar World or something. Nothing wrong with that, it's just not my perspective. Anyway, sometimes new and/or better stuff than I planned comes out in the process, but more often than not it all ends up falling far short of expectations. |
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i have an idea in my head about what i want to hear and then i go and try to sculpt it |
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Most of it is just noodling and coming up with something good from that. |
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used to smoke a shit load of cones, mix two or three samples together, hit the global delay, and go from there |
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cones? |
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i just fuck around, and eventually a decent song comes out of that. i dont think i have ever properly planned a song before making it. |
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joints and/or blunts |
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the Rosales order? |
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