24 Feb
2006
24 Feb
'06
12:26 a.m.
Hi James! Thanks for participating! You're really making me think here,
and that's a good thing.
Here we go.
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).
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? 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