[LAU] Some thoughts on making electronic music

[Atte André Jensen]

Ken Restivo wrote:
> Some words of wisdom from a local electronic musician:
> 
> http://www.generalfuzz.net/blog/?p=486

Some good thoughts.

Personally I found it a good idea to:

1) Record to vocals (maybe only cue vocals) as soon in the process as 
possible (obviously doesn't apply to instrumental music).

2) Try to make a full length arrangement of the song/track pretty soon 
in the process. No matter how nice or long a loop is, the more times I 
hear it, the harder is is for me to hear how it can connect to music 
comming before and after it.

Both of these makes it easier for me to get ideas that actually supports 
the track and not just random bursts of "what about this sound".

Another thing: I sometimes set time aside for maintaining my sample 
library or cooking up new presets for my synths. This for me is an 
important part of the creative process, but somehow it distracts from 
the composition if I have go too much into right brain activities like 
this while trying to be creative with melody and lyrics and moods and 
stuff...

> Of course, there's another problem replacing it: the potential
> distraction of endlessly tweaking the system instead of making music
> on it.

That's been touched quite a lot here recently, hasn't it? I for one will 
rather record audio than compile svn repos or tweak kernel configs to 
get that golden feature. Still I patch a kernel now and then :-)

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Atte

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