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  1. We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various
  2. I made this recording then people robbed me and drove off in my car We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various
  3. Please dont delete your older works. I dont know what they sound like but i personally couldnt imagine intentionally deleting even the stupidest old shit that ive made. Storage space is so cheap these days that you can just put all that stuff into a folder of stuff you dont care for and forget about it. Its better than deleting it forever. I just bought myself a 512GB SD card for my music and my entire life's work fits on just 50GB of it. It's worth it to keep even the stuff that you dont like, even if just for sentimental reasons.
  4. Ok i have another little update I have been taking time to work on my projects again apart from my romantic partner. I feel very fulfilled socially; i have a band, a very cool and wonderful girlfriend, and a music scene that is supportive of my work, and despite all this i still feel compelled to work. My original post may have been false. I still feel the urge to put work into composition even when i am happy.
  5. Yeah some of my best pieces are just remixes of previous ones. Actually most of the sounds that ive made in my life are just previous sounds edited to a point that theyre completely unrecognizable. I just do that endlessly and it expands arborescescently.
  6. Thanks for thinking about this post and reminding me of it The piece is finished and it will be included in my next album, an anthology of my favorite stuff that ive made over the past decade. Im still working with people on the visual design for it but one of my friends has a small label and is putting it on cd. Finishing the piece was like how you describe. It was an almost debilitating obsession that held me captive for a month during which i wasnt able to care about anything else. I would listen to it on repeat all day every day and make small tweaks when i had the time, only stopping when i had absolutely no more energy and had to go to sleep. I managed to finish it just before playing at an outdoor noise festival in west virginia. It was an awesome weekend. Ironically, i started a new romance with someone i met at the festival and havent even thought about working on music for the past month and a half because of it. Maybe my original post was true. It might be too late for me.
  7. Does anyone know what this government shutdown thing is about? All the news sites want me to pay so idk how working class people like me are supposed to find out about it
  8. i would say the most important thing is humor
  9. I think ive finally finished the new composition ive been working on for the past month. I thought i would feel good after it was finished but i just feel fucking insane. Ive been obsessively working on it nonstop. I dont want to listen to it or think about it anymore. I keep thinking it's finished and then I find more things that im dissatisfied with and i go back and edit it but i think ive finally refined it to perfection. There is nothing left to do and now i dont know how to relax. The piece wont be out until november 20 so i wont even get any recognition until then. I really didnt want this piece to be this much work but it just had to be this way. There was no easier way with this one. I hate it. Im listening to death in june right now so i dont have to be reminded of electronic sounds.
  10. I dont think ive ever dissed physical gear (since i use mixing board and effect pedals at live shows often) but i do really dislike the way it's fetishized. People seem to think that spending more money on more gear will give them more ability to do more things with sound when really that's just a waste of money and space. To me it feels much easier to make weird sounds with hardware than with software because of the tactile response and the money that you invested to get the thing, but the vast majority of people who use this hardware, i suspect, don't actually know whats going on behind the faceplate. They wouldnt be able to visualize what the devices are doing to the waveforms that are being put into them. So the machines make it feel like they can do more but really it's just because they dont have to learn as much background knowledge than they would need in order to do the same thing on their computer. My hot take is that using tools like max or supercollider force you to learn a thing or two about audio signals and i think learning to use these is a very helpful tool to become an adaptable musician, producer, or sound engineer. Knowing how to process your inputs in order to create a certain effect opens up many more ways to experiment with these processes. That's not to say that physical gear doesn't have its valid applications, it definitely does. Being able to control multiple things at a time with both hands is a massive advantage over just using a mouse. The physical objects are also less distracting than a bunch of stuff cluttered together and compartmentalized on a single screen, and placements of your gear can also be used creatively. Also, and most importantly for me, the chemical properties of analog circuits cant be modelled on a digital system. This is the sole reason why i own gear at all. I cant make a no-input feedback loop on a computer without adding some sort of artificial buffer somewhere in the loop, and it also wouldn't account for the heating and cooling of different circuits which lead to unpredictable results. Things like this are the actual reasons to use physical gear, but just buying things to make up for your lack of ability is a bad habit imo. Personally i dont have the money or the space for more than a few pieces of gear, and travelling to shows frequently means i have to trim down my tools to the bare minimum that i need, so i dont bother with a lot of stuff. Even when i have had synthesizers and semimodular things i realized that i could do more interesting things on my computer but with fewer limitations so i got rid of most of it. I love that i can just work for hours without ever encountering a roadblock. I never find myself running out of cables or not being able to use the same effect multiple times and that allows me to do much more with the time that i have to work. It seems like youre arguing with more people than just me which idk anything about. Im used to being around people who are all about gear so im usually the one with the unpopular opinion about this, so maybe im just not hip to the mainstream conversation. This is just what ive come to think my living and making sounds.
  11. Im confused at florian hecker being included in your selection. I don't think he even uses gear these days, so he hardly seems like a case of gear lust.
  12. I dont see that. Most people who make electronic music own a computer of some form, with a DAW even. I just add max/msp on top of that and that's all i need. No need for continual thousands of dollars spent on modules. I already have everything i need and ive been using the same tools (max+ableton) for the past decade or so. Ive acquired more gear since then but none of it stuck and i always revert to the same two tools. I use max to make the sounds and i use live intro to edit sounds into finished pieces. That's all i need and i dont expect that will ever change. Also, i dont think physical devices = gear lust. As i said, i have friends who make very cool sounds with eurorack modules. It just isnt something i can afford. But buying modules you dont need in order to make music that could easily be made on a computer alone is annoying and irresponsible.
  13. I think the problem is mostly just that people my age dont care about anything. Theyre all lazy and disinterested in everything around them and i cant change them. I dont think anything good will come out of my generation.
  14. Ive been in a very dark place lately. Ive lost a lot of friends over the past year and the ones i still have are becoming almost intolerable to me. I hate how unreliable and selfish people are and it makes me wish i could just be a hermit. Every day i feel a strange mix of hopelessness and anger and i have no outlet because nobody wants to hear what i have to say. Simultaneously i have been more productive and creative over the past month than i was for the past year before that. I have noticed this trend throughout my life. I become much more artistically prolific when i feel absolutely unbearable loneliness and emotional atrophy. For some reason misery motivates me to creativity. This has, in the past, deterred me from making decisions that were likely to result in happiness out of fear that i would lose my compulsion to pursue artistic creation. I have lately been working nonstop at a new composition to commemorate the tenth anniversary of my first album and it has become something of an obsession. I have lost patience for anything that isn't related to the project that I'm working on and I can't bring myself to rest even for a brief moment. It is consuming my life. This isn't an unfamiliar experience to me and I've made some of my best work in similar places. I think it's because at the moment there is nothing else in my life for me to think about, and musical projects are an effective way to remain productive while experiencing emotional distress. I will continue to obsessively edit this one piece every day until i finally make it out of this. Who knows how long that will take.
  15. I stand by my previous statement that music has never made me cry, but this song will always make me feel things.
  16. Tbh ive never heard anything by venetian snares that i liked. I do have some irl friends who do wicked stuff with eurorack modules but venetian snares making breakcore trax with a huge modular wall seems wasteful to me when people with little portable cabinets are doing cooler stuff (and even building the modules themselves).
  17. This is really true though. Ive gotten rid of every piece of gear ive ever acquired except for a few guitar pedals. It always gets frustrating that i cant (easily) change what's inside it and i just go back to my computer and max/msp where i can change everything. I think steven stapleton also commented on the pitfalls of gear lust in an interview where he talks about lemon kittens.
  18. I get the sense that his classical training didn't include much electroacoustic composition.
  19. http://bignoisecandymountain.org/ Idk who here is into noise and camping in the woods but I'll be playing here on 9/2 with my band Slab of Meat. Many of my friends from around the country are also making appearances. Tickets are only up for a few more days I believe so act fast if you want to go. It's $25 for the whole festival but you will be in charge of your own food and survival while there.
  20. This time I just used "tinder" as the prompt
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