Exploring your creative mind

[lowpass]

I've got to ask, do you consider yourself 'legendary?'

Not at all, the name derived as a piss take for people who're arrogant about their music saying its epic and mind blowing, etc,etc,etc...By the time I was ready to change it I got releases so

I've got to ask, do you consider that therapy?

Eh?

Anyway, good answer. I know it's off topic I just wondered because it seemed pretty obnoxious if it wasn't a piss-take. I hope that doesn't sound like a dig.

As for my music, it's pretty much all written when I'm in a bit of a sad state, which makes it pretty embarrassing to show anyone.

Lol it was a play on words with what you said and your name,

I asked it in the same way you did but made you the subject instead.

Also I saw the way you asked the question almost reminds me of the way therapists ask their clients questions e.g "you seem down about what has happened, do you consider yourself responsible?" which again comes back to the therapy part.

Nothing personal against you mate just my poor attempt at humor

[therapist]

For some reason I read your posts like this, I thought it was a very different joke.

I've got to ask, do you consider yourself therapy?

Also I saw the way you asked the question almost reminds me of the way the rapists ask their clients questions e.g "you seem down about what has happened, do you consider yourself responsible?" which again comes back to the the rapy part.

[gravity]

i try and paint pictures with my music - i take influence from various stuff, often films, books, drugs, nature, random ideas i think up, whatever really. sometimes i just see something that fascinates me and i try and encapsulate it using music.

electronic music for me is unlike live music or a performance, which is often more about immediate expression, and more like drawing a picture with sound. i like to try and create a scene with sound that reflects the idea it is based on. now often this scene changes somewhat throughout the creative process, but then thats the nature of the beast... you experiment and react to those results, so in a way it takes on a life of its own. i try to create quite dense soundscapes, i like music that you can get lost in, as i find that its most evocative, and makes you more likely to conjure up mental images.

on the other hand i still appreciate the dance aspect of electronic music - i try to incorporate rhythms that make you want to move. basically i suppose i am attempting to combine more home/walkman listening elements with more dancefloor based stuff. i probably lean more to the former.. but i feel i am slowly getting better at achieving what i am trying to do.

[legend4ry]

For some reason I read your posts like this, I thought it was a very different joke.

I've got to ask, do you consider yourself therapy?

Also I saw the way you asked the question almost reminds me of the way the rapists ask their clients questions e.g "you seem down about what has happened, do you consider yourself responsible?" which again comes back to the the rapy part.

It actually took me two weeks of you posting to work out its not "the rapist"

[therapist]

It actually took me two weeks of you posting to work out its not "the rapist"

Yeah I probably shouldn't go round taking the piss out of other people's user-names.

Gravity I like your description of what you do, and that track in your sig does it all justice.

[gravity]

It actually took me two weeks of you posting to work out its not "the rapist"

Yeah I probably shouldn't go round taking the piss out of other people's user-names.

Gravity I like your description of what you do, and that track in your sig does it all justice.

thank you man!

[egoless]

Beat maker is a person that make music for someone else... So a rapper caled Rap (lol) takes a beat from person called Beatmaker... the result is Rap - Name of the tune ... Not Beatmaker - name of the tune (feat. Rap) .

I don't like when someone refers to my music as beats... It is not a beat because it will not serve as a template for some vocalist... I prefer call it a song... tune... whatever...

Producer is too wide term... it can mean anything...

Artist is also too wide term...

so...

in the end i just don't care...

[legend4ry]

Beat maker is a person that make music for someone else... So a rapper caled Rap (lol) takes a beat from person called Beatmaker... the result is Rap - Name of the tune ... Not Beatmaker - name of the tune (feat. Rap) .

I don't like when someone refers to my music as beats... It is not a beat because it will not serve as a template for some vocalist... I prefer call it a song... tune... whatever...

Producer is too wide term... it can mean anything...

Artist is also too wide term...

so...

in the end i just don't care...

Well coming from grime, the term beatmarker isn't so foreign to me.

[nowaysj]

My whole life I've been seeking stillness. My internal dialog is relentless and always has been so. I cannot stand to hear myself thinking. I've found release from this in many forms, most of them damaging to my body. When I was a child I would spin around. When I got older I'd drink. I love playing sports. One of my favorite sports is raquetteball. This game has the ability to bring me into a zen like state of consciousness where my mind is focused solely on the cubical space, my opponent's position, my position and the ball's vector. I have a physical injury, so now I play Modern Warfare 2 incessantly. I love the extreme focus that game brings. I can focus on my iron sight to the exclusion of all else.

Music I like, and music I attempt to make are the same way. When I make music, I'm always looking for a beat that is strong, relentless and repetitive enough to transport me to a place where all else disappears. This is why I don't like writing songs. Actual song construction pulls me out of that grooved out beat state. I just like making beats.

[Sharmaji]

Beat maker is a person that make music for someone else... So a rapper caled Rap (lol) takes a beat from person called Beatmaker... the result is Rap - Name of the tune ... Not Beatmaker - name of the tune (feat. Rap) .

Eric B & Rakim

[Original Face]

"So, how do you feel about your music?"
The good tunes have presence. The bad tunes don't.

Other than music what inspires you?
Recently, I glanced out of the window, saw a flock of birds circling, and thought 'I want to make music like that'.

"Do you sometimes struggle to be creative because of technical aspects of producing electronic music?"
Yes, although I enjoy the challenge, too.

"What have you always wanted to try, when making music but never have?"
I'd like to work with Arve Henriksen or Nils Petter Molvaer (both play trumpet).

[egoless]

Beat maker is a person that make music for someone else... So a rapper caled Rap (lol) takes a beat from person called Beatmaker... the result is Rap - Name of the tune ... Not Beatmaker - name of the tune (feat. Rap) .

Eric B & Rakim

true man... there are sure more examples that deny what I said up there... but I think the majority of this rap work is made with beats from people calling themselves beatmakers...

[BLAHBLAHJAH]

"As some famous writer said, words simplify and taint the occasion of which they pitfully try to describe or replicate. When it came to times of being left with a computer and a program as wonderful as ableton live, these are the tracks that emerged. They crudely represent mental states at the selected times; the process of learning how to make and produce music has, in a subtle way, become a part of this process of repression/expression. In search mainly of a bigger sound to enhance life at its peaks and troughs. I hope the vibes touch in some ways, possibly even help people to gain insight into their own mental states, even in cases as shallow as the smooth recovery from a dingy ketamine hole. Raspik!"

That's the bio I boshed out one night and kept. Serves as a nice ambiguous summary!

[ZanderJay]

I think that into the world of music, or if we talk about the beat maker. This is how we believe that they loved the beat by it making of their own. It was the practices as a beat maker to have more rhythm to make it compatible for the beat.

[Siderealdb]

So, how do you feel about your music?
Well, in an emotional context I feel I could always articulate my music a bit more. I feel that whether you intentionally try to convey some emotion, or not, doesn't matter in the end because you will. It's more of a subconscious desire, even if your trying to replicate some other artist your doing that because your on a similar emotional level. Some of the greatest examples of emotion being conveyed in music is the blues genre. Typically the guitar solos would express to me a desire of longing, desperation, and sadness. I think I can safely say that many people on here would agree with the fact that not many blues artists led great lives, and their guitars expressed it more than any lyric possibly could.
Similarly my life has been quite tragic so far, and I've just learned to use my music as a coping mechanism for whatever emotional state I'm in. Sometimes I won't even fire up the daw and write a new song, I'll just listen to something else I've written 30 times in a row because it captures my own personality and emotional state so well that I don't need anything else. Of course there are many other artists out there that are better than me, but when I write a tune it has the feeling that it's wired perfectly into my brain in a way that not even the greatest musician could predict. That's why I feel there is no greater satisfaction than knowing that I don't have to flip through every song in an ipod to find a song that will ease my soul.

What inspires you? Life, Love, lack of love, and sometimes law enforcement

Do you sometimes struggle to be creative because of technical aspects of producing electronic music?
No the problem comes from an idea coming and leaving before I can accurately express it. I should probably just record myself beat boxing or humming a bassline when the idea comes I guess.

What have you always wanted to try, when making music but never have?
Having a full orchestra at my disposal. I've got some things to learn and money to raise before that's a reality though.

[narcissus]

how do i feel about my music? one might as well ask how i feel about breathing, or blinking. just as i breathe, i create music. just as i leave footprints in the sand, i leave behind my melodies as i travel ever onward along this world.. my music and my life are interchangeable/indistinguishable ... if somebody looks at it and finds pleasure, or at least momentary peace, then i'm doing my job here well.

[symmetricalsounds]

yeah similar to narcissus, there's a quote in science of sleep that's taking a piss out of a character saying something like

"i'm not an artist i don't have to leave bits of myself everywhere"

before i made music i dreamt about making music. the aim was always to be able to make the music that i could put my words too and now that i can i find it's nice not having to record any words at all. i've always had a need to be creative, writing poetry then peforming it and spitting on hiphop tracks and dnb nights, then just getting so deep into slam styles and touring that for a while. i then got really into object manipulation which i felt was a physical artistry. i finally got round to properly learning production and now just outputting what i feel.

suppose it all just feels right.

[deadly_habit]

i can talk production and technique all day, but when it comes down to it i have to be in a certain mood to actually work on a tune and finish it. to me if i don't have some emotion behind it i tend not to work on songs or come up with anything worthwhile besides maybe some simple foundation work for a track.

[slothrop]

This topic always reminds me of an Alasdair Gray quote from Lanark:

"Then think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively. What is Glasgow to most of us? A house, the place we work, a football park or a golf course, some pubs and connecting streets. That's all. No, I'm wrong, there's also the cinema and library. And when our imagination needs exercise we use these to visit London, Paris, Rome under the Caesars, the American West at the turn of the century, anywhere but here and now. Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music-hall song and a few bad novels. That's all we've given to the world outside. It's all we've given to ourselves."

...

After a moment McAlpin said, "So you paint to give Glasgow a more imaginative life."

"No. That's my excuse. I paint because I feel cheap and purposeless when I don't."

[paravrais]

Thread necro!

Have to say it's good to know that I'm not the only one that reads Therapists name as the rapist on the regular. For some reason it just looks like it should be that way :\