Nobody is interested in my opinion, so I must try to keep it to myself as much as possible (apart from this list).
Very few people are interested in purchasing my music. The ratio of Bandcamp listens to purchases, for example, is 100:1
Restricting equipment/software = more creative ideas.
More equipment/software = pain.
Joy comes from total immersion in the creative process, regardless of the outcome.
Joy is much harder to experience when producing sounds on machines or software with pre-programmed boundaries. No, that does not mean I will be selling my car and buying Eurorack gear. And yes, I will continue to use such machines and software when Mr Hyde returns.
Spending hours working on how one drum sound or sequence fits in with the others is exhausting and a waste of energy. Also, nobody cares.
Nobody on this entire planet needs another set of Amen breaks, 303, 808 or 909 sounds, however they’re packaged.
The cube filter from the EMU Morpheus should have been sold as a separate box 25 years ago.
Laptop music, however good to listen to, does not make interesting live entertainment to watch – why do you think Autechre turn the lights out?!
I’m not doing anything for a reaction: if you like it, that’s great and I am truly grateful. If you don’t – I don’t care anymore.
People you thought were good friends can disappear, sometimes without a word, overnight. Don’t think you know anyone – it’s dangerous and will only lead to sadness.
Don’t try to recreate the sound you had 30+ years ago because that’s what people want now. It’s too exhausting and is not the real you.
Social and mass media exist to generate anxiety, spread lies and encourage turmoil. Avoid at all costs. Do not let propaganda determine your path in life.
People in positions of power will do anything to keep themselves there.
In the year 2525, beat data is assembled from numerous long-extinct computer systems, to entertain the last surviving digital nomads.
Physical media is long gone, having been replaced by subcutaneous brain interfaces that receive airborne entertainment transmissions.
However, even these are prone to malfunction as the human hosts are naturally organic and leak when under stress. This leads to momentary audio glitches, often perceived as part of the entertainment programmes but actually indicative of the oncoming demise of the host transmission/reception infrastructure.
I will continue to use AI generated images and text as foundations for my projects. Can they be considered ‘ready-mades’ by the art world? How did the art world react to the Dadaists’ ready-mades? Who cares? I believe part of the artistic process is in knowing what prompts to use to get the results you’re after. The same as programming a synth sound or manipulating a sample. The image or text are generated by the synthetic organism, based on my selection of certain criteria (the prompt) and I go ahead and manipulate them further to produce the desired effect. Or trash them and start again.
Still waiting for Apple Music, iTunes etc. to be added but here are the streaming versions of ‘Secrets of Numbers’ https://ditto.fm/secrets-of-numbers – play loud and entertain your friends and neighbours 😉
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