Top down vs bottom up. Decklyn's mad psychedelic rant

[rekordah]

Someone brought up the concept of top down vs bottom up at school in a presentation on nano technology.

what school did u go to mate?!

big ups

[decklyn]

I'm all graduated off now.

My official title is "International Supply Chain Co-ordinator"
Sounds fancy, but with all the unpaid overtime I put in my hourly wage is at about mcdonald's level.

[thesis]

Interesting topic..

I try to allow my process to evolve. Lately I've been trying to do more melodic work, so I'll start with the melody, then add percussion to fit (rather than vice versa, how I normally work)

I also make a conscious effort to do things differently, as often as possible. Even if its taking the laptop and sitting in a different room.

Generally I think its a good idea to let a track naturally evolve.. rather than try to force a certain sound or idea. You may end up with something unexpected, but its also more likely to be original, and doing things this way really helps to develop your own style.

There was a quote I heard by a scientist (could have been Einstein actually).. it went something like, you can't expect to get a different result if you use the same method. Very good philosophy I think...

[tempest]

you can't expect to get a different result if you use the same method. Very good philosophy I think...

Indeed, that makes me keen to get into the lab and start doing things differently

[daft cunt]

I'm all graduated off now.

My official title is "International Supply Chain Co-ordinator"
Sounds fancy, but with all the unpaid overtime I put in my hourly wage is at about mcdonald's level.

Logistics, uh? How did you end up learning that?
Anyway, I'm going to pass the truck driving license - if I get the governement to pay it - so hit me up if you have some transport to do, I heard you can make crazy money in Canada if you don't mind working 6 days a week.
By the way congrats for your diploma.

[tempest]

how the hell do you find time to produce (or make midi controllers from xbox controllers) when you're working a full-time job... i seriously find it hard to make time for music around work and the girlfriend.. even tho its what i most want to do...

i need a holiday

[decklyn]

I just traded an RC car for a dual core processor, motherboard, and ddr2 ram and it took me 5 days to get the innards in my puter and get it up and running so trust me, it's VERY hard to find time to make music working 10 hours a day 6 days a week while being married.

Fortuanately my wife is in advertising, which is a very social, so I get alot of nights alone to write beats while she is out drinking free booze at exclusive parties.

I'm actually flying to new jersey on sunday so no beats for a week! fucking work laptop won't let me write choons iether.

[blk plague]

interesting theories and ideas there, decklyn. I find, that i tend to not have a specific idea in mind when i start a track. I start with drums, and get them where i like them, and then i let the track make itself, based on what i think should go where... at the risk of sounding premadonna, the track comes to me as im working on it.

(it doesnt, by any means, mean that all my tracks are "good"!)

same here. sometimes though, i'll spend weeks or months working on something just to wake up or come home one day and scrap the whole thing. that is something i am never afraid of. i fi have to start over, then so be it. i know some producers outside of dubstep who are scared shitless by that idea. just because you spent a year on the thing doesnt make it good. thats my two cents.

[thesis]

sometimes though, i'll spend weeks or months working on something just to wake up or come home one day and scrap the whole thing.

Word... its important to do that sometimes!!!

In design college, our lecturer got the students to make a detailed and complicated drawing.... then he made us tear it up, and put it in the bin. The lesson was, don't be too attached to your work....

[decklyn]

sometimes though, i'll spend weeks or months working on something just to wake up or come home one day and scrap the whole thing.

Word... its important to do that sometimes!!!

In design college, our lecturer got the students to make a detailed and complicated drawing.... then he made us tear it up, and put it in the bin. The lesson was, don't be too attached to your work....

Classic! I believe it is the Vajrayana budhists who hand dye individual grains of sand, and build beautiful images out of those grains called Mandala's. Then they put them outside and let the wind blow them away.
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