Re: [microsound] Formative microsound experiences?

[David Powers <cyborgk@xxxxxxxxx>]

I used to stay up late every weekend, listening to ambient music shows
on Public Radio as a kid; some of it was a bit new agey but some of it
was pretty good ... I also loved playing with synthesizers and making
strange sounds and film soundscapes from the age of 11. So I guess
it's pretty natural that later in life I would be interested in making
electronic music (microsound and other genres).

I should mention that I also play acoustic piano (sometimes
professionally), and I find that the physicality of playing acoustic
music nicely balances out all the mousing/typing/staring at screens
that comes with making electronic music. I also love the improvisatory
aspect of playing jazz and think that playing it regularly is very
helpful for my compositional thinking in general.

~David

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:03 AM, g d <rupanama@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dan Friedman wrote:
>
> I'm curious if anybody else has childhood formative 'microsound'
>> experiences that they'd like to share. Anybody got a good story? What
>> would you look back on now and point to as your earliest 'microsonic'
>> experience? What, from your early life, made you interested in doing the
>> sonic work you're doing now?
>
>
> In high school I was in all the band classes offered, as well as the a/v
> crew -- yeah, that kid was me. Learning to cut and edit digital video, and
> then hearing Nine Inch Nail's glitch remixes of The Fragile turned my ears
> to the possibilities of cutting and editing audio. Then I began interning at
> a radio station, and the rest is history in the making so far.
>

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