failure and production (or lack thereof)

[taylor deupree <taylor@xxxxxxx>]

> To me, it really doesn't matter whether the person responsible for a piece of
> art spent X minutes/hours/days/months/years on something as long as, as
> someone else also said, you are compelled to listen to the piece several
> times.

i agree.. i've done work that took me 10 minuts.. and stuff that took 
me days. for the most part, i don't let my work take more than a few 
days.. if it's not at a finished state at that time it's usually 
because it's not clicking right.. or just doesn't feel right. when a 
piece sounds great it usually fuels itself to get done more quickly.. 
i don't think many electronic musicians can say they spend MONTHS or 
weeks on tracks.. if so, they're probably just afraid to admit it 
took them 10 minutes!

however... what *is* very important to me is sound design.. the way i 
work is that a lot of my "patches" and sounds are practically songs 
in themselves. i will spend hours and hours tweaking a sound.. 
compiling a whole library of sounds.. which then speeds up the 
composition process.. because it's the sounds, to me, that are most 
important.. so with that in mind, the entire creative process.. from 
sound making/processing, to composition, producing (another 
interesting thought on production coming up) and recording.. rarely 
takes as short as 10 minutes.. .. more like a few hours.

production:

i was thinking about this last night.. i used to do straight up 
techno and ambient works.. this genre, after time, became something 
that got very well produced.. in my studio i have a bunch of pretty 
nice outboard gear.. a big mixer.. decent quality fx boxes and the 
like.. all of which was painstakingly tweaked to get the production 
of a good techno track polished...

today.. i bypass my mixer altogether.. going directly from my 
computer's digital outputs to my dat deck..  i rarely use any reverb 
or effects.. and do all of the EQ'ing and panning on a 
sound-by-sound/sound design basis... track "production" has nearly 
been eliminated...

any thoughts? why is "reverb" a bad word now? these dry, glitchy 
sounds that we all use rarely have any spacial effects added.. and 
the whole traditional art of production seems to have been thrown out 
the window!..


taylor,

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