Hi James! Thanks for participating! You're really making me think here, and that's a good thing. Here we go. >>The reaction I want from people is: "MAAAAAAN that's so cool why can't >>the sucker produce as fast as I can listen? MORE MORE MORE!!!!" > > > That's an interesting position. Are you looking at making music > commercially, or do you see acceptance as one of the qualities of > music that you'd like to be able to quantify and add as much of as you > want? It's a cross-section of a lot of things. I want to be a successful musician and I want a broad fan-base. I also want to make music that is useful, that energizes. I want to give people their money's worth, EVEN THOUGH I WON'T BE CHARGING. To do that, I have to make the music from my audience's perspective (even when my future audience doesn't even know I exist yet). > Personally, I make what I enjoy making. It still surprises me that > what I try to do is quite different from what I listen to normally. I was their with a band I had too but I quit. I feel strongly that my music is a means to connect, and to connect, I have to adapt. > If it ever occurred that what I created was something that the masses > wanted to consume, it would be a completely accidental confluence. :) Yeah it's a lot of hard work to make something consumable, and I haven't seen myself do a lot of work by accident recently ;) LOL > That's not to say that I see myself as above all that. As the list > knows, I like my feedback as much as anyone else. I'm not sure I'd be > happy if people loved my stuff because I'd tried to make it lovable > before I made it mine. Well, I hope hope hope that I am succeding in making stuff that gets me loved because it is loving... Actually, bottom line is I want the music to be as loving to as many people as it can and hopefully spread a lot of happiness. Whether I express myself is actually secondary, but I think it's hard to avoid if I am to create a truly genuine product. Carlo
