[LAU] Music made with linux - "det nu"

[Grammostola Rosea]

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!

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