Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

To bump this thread a bit...

2011/2/8 Matt <somatt@...>
> hi all let's introduce ourselves
> Let's hear as much as u feel comfortable
> First name
> approx age
> Occupation
> Approx Location
> How you got interested in making electronic music
> How u learned to make electronic music
> What kind of electronic music u like to make
> Do u make non electronic music what type etc
> Feel free to include links to ur musics

Hi, I'm Bruno, 34 and counting. Used to work as a professional
musician (as a sideman and/or composer), but got fed up with it and
switched to being a developer (or programmer, if you prefer) - mostly
Perl, for fun and profit, sometimes Scheme/Lisp for fun (take a look
at Impromptu, it rocks). I'm originally from Poland, used to live in
Spain, now based in Amsterdam.

I've got interested in making electronic music, because I've got
interested in making music at all. I was exposed quite early to the
classical music, and then discovered the 70-80 electronic music
(Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Jarre), as well as progressive rock. That
was awesome, sounded completely different, but nonetheless very rich
and imaginative. There was a piano in our house, which I was playing,
mostly without any formal training. Whatever I've heard and liked, I
tried to repeat on the piano - that was my learning process. Later I
got sucked into the world of synthesizers, but still I find the piano
sound as my point of reference, where I like to try out new ideas,
when I get stuck.

In the area of electronic music I like ambient stuff as well as Berlin
school - I really admire early TD and their sick experiments. I try to
redefine the classical sound in terms of electronic stuff, like early
Vangelis did, but this is something difficult. I used to write - and
still do - kinda "symphonic" music (to the extent of the realism of
orchestral sounds in P2K...) and some rock-related stuff. I always
like playing with live people, they interact with you and you can
always get something from this interaction. Nowadays is a bit
difficult, it's so easy to get a bunch of gear and play alone - while
the amount of junk you rely on makes you immobile...

You can find my more or less random crap on jamendo:
http://www.jamendo.com/pl/artist/Bruno_(6)

You can see me having fun with my gear on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/truebrunorc?feature=mhum

I have some scraps on soundcloud, but mostly demos related to my blog:
http://soundcloud.com/brunorc
(and the blog itself: https://brunorc.wordpress.com/)

Saludos,

Bruno