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help! i have to have a project in for music class tomorrow and i need info on aphex twin. i have all his music and a bio from own interest but i need to mark examples of strange instruments, methods etc. please help or join me in a chat! |
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prepared piano self built synthesizers ... what do you want to know? |
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basically the best songs which demonstrate his use of his methods and what he used. like the bass on ageispolis |
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"Nearly sixty years later Richard James was in a BBC studio taking part in a Radio 3 programme called 'Mixing It'. His music was being played along with the usual fabulous eclectic mix that this programme offers every Sunday night. One of Cage's prepared piano pieces was played and Mr Aphex's ears were drawn to the extraordinary sounds. He enquired about the prepared piano and how it was all done. Many other techno artists would have probably prepared a piano and sampled some of the sounds, but not Richard James, he knew this simply wouldn't work and that any results of this process would be crass. He bought a grand piano that can be played by computer. It's called a 'Diskclavier' and it's made by Yamaha. It's exactly like a straightforward grand piano but the keys can be controlled by a computer via MIDI – the musical instrument digital interface. Richard James cannot read conventional musical notation and he cannot play a keyboard so, in order to make the piano and prepared piano pieces that appear on 'Drukqs' he prepared his Diskclavier according to the principles established by John Cage and programmed the playing using a computer. The results are there for all to hear. It's a real piano on Drukqs, not a sampler or a synthesizer. Richard James has brought the sound of the forties into the 21st century." you can read the full article at www.warprecords.com (just click "artist"---->Aphex Twin) |
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www.aphextwin.nu has all the answers |
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Mmmmm i know that when he uses his sequencer he has pre loaded and ready patches waiting to be droped into his sequencer as it is running so he can improvise alot when at gigs. He must have hundreds of quality loops on his harddrive that he can pick at random and drop into the track.This gives his breakbeat style , ,very |
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ok, i've decided to do my fifteen minute presentation on the prepared piano tracks of drukqs and then just throw in some xtal or something to keep the classes attention |
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nah. go for Ventolin (Wheeze Mix) |
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Nannou is a good one. love it. beautiful |
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which tracks on drukqs have the most altered piano noises? |
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yeah that thing that that bloke wrote is bollocks though -" richard james can't play the piano" how did he do all his tracks - they all require a lvel of competent piano playing ! |
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try here - the source - john cage http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/cage/ but henry cowell did it before him in the early 1900's http://www.schirmer.com/composers/cowell_bio.html that'll impress the teachers |
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he programmed every note on his computer with a mouse. |
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do you really think he can program complex, interacting piano melodies on a computer without knowing how it works with a real piano, hum? |
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yes |
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of coz. that's beaty part of it. :) |
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I heard he used to practice clasical piano when he was younger. |
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I heard he used to practice clasical piano when he was younger. |
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I heard he used to practice clasical piano when he was younger. |
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sorry guys its the new computer being silly. |
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sorry guys its the new computer being silly. |
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what is sure is that he fucked around on his parent's piano at an early age go figure 20 years later that he cant play it ! |
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hihi |
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show them the pic in the mathematic song from windowlicker =) |
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i really don't know. maybe he can play it, but prefers using software because it's easier. |
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i think more like that =) |
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btw, quoth, don't beleive he was building his own synth... maybe tweak existing hardware, but comon bulding a synth is another story |
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maybe the piano plays him??? the presentation went down really well. the teacher started asking where he could find out about aphex twin and stuff. there was a bit of an awkward silence haveway through, so i just said, 'oh yeah, he lives in a bank and he drives a tank' |
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Good good. Hopefully at least someone will discover the joys of IDM through yuor presentation. |
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