Grammostola Rosea wrote: > Why do you make electronic music? You did a study for Jazz piano right? Lot's of reasons. 1) The whole idea behind modlys is something mediative and abstract, soundscapes with a few words here and there. I try to cross a few borders, mixing pop, jazz, electronica, avantgarde, stretching the listeners patience and activating her imagination. I felt that could only be achieved through electronic music. 2) I've been making electronic music even before I started to play real music. There's just something about it. Everything not 100% acoustic was banned at "the bebop factory" and regarded as inferior. I guess modlys is one of my reactions to that and a way to move out of the shadows of my (fantastic) teachers. 3) Playing so much bebop as I do, it's like cleaning my musical soul. I love bebop and consider myself a bebop pianist at heart, but "all these notes" in a pretty pre-defined musical setting means it's so liberating to work with something else, to try to rid the melody of anything unnecessary and to compose and improvise in a style I (at least feel I) create and discover as I go along. 4) Finally, it's very difficult to live from playing jazz, esp bebop. I don't complain, I do have gigs, sometimes enough to start looking like an income, but no enough to keep me busy every day. Instead of sitting with "my hands in my lap" (as a Danish saying goes), I might as well do *something* with the creativity I believe I have inside. I hope that didn't sound too selfcentered, or "I'm interesting and important" or something along those lines. That wasn't the intention. It's just a little complex for me to give an honest answer, which I tried... -- Atte http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk http://virb.com/atte _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
