“Dreams are created, never consumed.”
I can’t believe how easy it is getting to make music. Only thing is there’s not enough time in the day to get every single melody sequenced. Ever since 1988 things are getting more and more positive every day. I find myself trying to keep my feet on the ground. I’ve taken to wearing those straps with weights on my ankles. I’m sure I’m transforming into an angel. The light seems so bright now….
At the moment I’m practising the zen of sampling. I’m taking the counting straws approach to production. I’ve realised I have a talent I’m sometimes not utilising – it’s called patience. Strange though, it goes away if I watch MTV for too long. I found the best thing to do is go for a walk, get some space in your head instead of consuming films or internet. It’s nice to meditate on the now. It’s seems like most of media consumed is always folding time in different directions – either showing you the past or future or someone’s perception of. I found these false leaps in time can produce anxiety in the here and now which tends to kill time – precious time needed for creating.
These are all just personal philosophies. I’ve found philosophy. I love it. In my head I have the dream sound. And in the physical prescence I have a block of material I’m chiselling away at slowly. Sometimes just using my hands to smooth the shapes. When I’m finished the model or sound will be my perfect dream. The hardware or software used to fulfill the goal is irrelevant. I don’t want to slag anyone off but some people need to stop fetishizing the method and focus on making their dream into reality. It’s like fumbling around with the condom – why don’t you just stick it on and get stuck in? The important thing is the job at hand. I can imagine in the future people saying “oh yeah I remember in the old days people used to turn the TV over without the remote control so I’m going to show how old school I am and use just the physical knobs. I find it makes the TV look a lot better. I get a better sound from the hi fi when I don’t use the remote to turn the sound up. I get a smoother sound increase when I use the knob instead of the remote control”. I mean I’m not saying this is ludicrous but it seems like there’s a lot of finger twiddling and knob twiddling intellectual banter being thrown about. But it doesn’t seem like there’s been so much progression since the eighties for me. I mean the equipment has moved on leaps and bounds. I mean even memory has it’s own memory.
I remember 15 years ago working on an SSL desk and one of the main reasons why it cost 100 grand was it had total recall. Back in the days we was trying to get away from manual operation of machinery. We wanted everything to be automatic. I was dreaming of the future where I could shape the music with my mind. I can just imagine the conversations in the year 2060, some kid saying “oh that computer music from back in the day – that was the real deal – this new “mind” music just doesn’t seem as real as the stuff written with old school software synths.”
Anyway, there I go, jumping forward into time. Welcome to my blog.
I know, you use Reason. I like it too. It gives you a great opportunity not to stuck in the laptop, like an idiot, but to PLAY (!) music. You can change grooves and loops, compose it. It gives you a great chance to be a musician at your own concert, not being an engineer or a Bill Gates, who just found a laptop for the first time in his life.
By all means, thank you for your music. You DO inspire. Unfortunately, I had no opportunity to see you in MOscow – I was off for my own live show. Hope, you’ll come again to Russia soon.
Sasha from Russia.