Atte Andre Jensen wrote: > 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... > > Good answer, thanks and I wish you all the best with it! \r _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
