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

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

I am matt I am a computer and environmental studies student at sonoma state university and I am from sf bay area california. I got interested in making music because I heard awesome techno house hip hop gangster rap and dubstep and other electronic musics and didn't know how to make it. I took a class at City College of San Francisco on electronic music production and now I have learned about analog synths, midi, and daws.
Having worked on the computers for most of my life and being easily distracted I like hardware stuff better than software.
I like to make electronic musics with a slower hip hop tempo usually 70-100bpm breaks or 120-140bpm half step. I like to use melodies and layers, and arpeggiators and also lfos for kind of space gangster feel. Maybe I succeed sometimes.
I have been making electronic music for just over 1 year. I played guitar for like 5-6 years but really never practiced it sat in the corner but when I discovered sequencers and arps I really started having fun.
I like playing live.
My music is at soundcloud.com/somatt
Thanks for listening
Have a great day!

Sorry wrong link lol soundcloud.com/sabotage

On Feb 8, 2011 2:07 AM, "Matt" <somatt@...> wrote:

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

I am matt I am a computer and environmental studies student at sonoma state university and I am from sf bay area california. I got interested in making music because I heard awesome techno house hip hop gangster rap and dubstep and other electronic musics and didn't know how to make it. I took a class at City College of San Francisco on electronic music production and now I have learned about analog synths, midi, and daws.
Having worked on the computers for most of my life and being easily distracted I like hardware stuff better than software.
I like to make electronic musics with a slower hip hop tempo usually 70-100bpm breaks or 120-140bpm half step. I like to use melodies and layers, and arpeggiators and also lfos for kind of space gangster feel. Maybe I succeed sometimes.
I have been making electronic music for just over 1 year. I played guitar for like 5-6 years but really never practiced it sat in the corner but when I discovered sequencers and arps I really started having fun.
I like playing live.
My music is at soundcloud.com/somatt
Thanks for listening
Have a great day!

----- Original Message -----
>hi all let's introduce ourselves
>Let's hear as much as u feel comfortable
      Why not, these things are fun!
>First name
      My name is josh
>approx age
      33-ish
>Occupation
      Day job: office monkey
>Approx Location
      Pittsburgh, PA
>How you got interested in making electronic music
      Tangerine Dream's score to the movie "Legend".  New Order.  Erasure.  Aube.  Coil.  Suicide.  Eat Static.  Cabaret Voltaire's "The Conversation".  A thousand other records I love, grew up with and can't stop listening to!
>How u learned to make electronic music
      Trial and error, reading books on sound design and music theory.  I've played guitar since 95, and bought my first real synth in 2001.
>What kind of electronic music u like to make
      My main project these days is film scores.  You can hear my work for the past couple years at http://www.reverbnation.com/joshloughrey
      I've also done traditional Celtic music as electronica.  There are some old recordings up at http://www.myspace.com/goodneighbors, but the recordings are pretty primitive and old.  I haven't touched that project in a while.
      For a while, I did vocal based darkwave/synthpop/trip-hop/misc. under the name Narse.  You can hear some old recordings at http://www.myspace.com/narse  The other vocalist became ill and wasn't able to sing for a long time, just as the plan was for me to sing less (if at all) and her to sing more.  I also wanted to change the name because most people weren't getting the reference (a dragon from the Record of Lodoss War cartoon).  Anyway, it sort of imploded, and I'm not sure if we'll do more with that project again (she's working back up to things now).
      My oldest running project is a noise/ambient/extreme music/misc project under the name Pancreatic Aardvarks.  You can hear some at http://myspace.com/pancreaticaardvarks and eventually at http://www.reverbnation.com/pancreaticaardvarks  I've listed all my old albums for sale there, but don't have much in the way of playable songs, and have done exactly 0 promotion of it, but it's a project I always return to.  Be it screaming power noise, hypnotic guitars, or extended electronic ambient (I've done two live performances of over three hours of composed music), anything that doesn't fit elsewhere can always fit here.  The idea is once I start getting regular jobs with my film scores, I won't have to work a day job and can spend evenings doing this, and other music for fun again.
>Do u make non electronic music what type etc
      I used to do traditional folk music, Celtic and American under the name of Gallows Tree.  I played guitar (6 and 12), dulcimer, mandolin, fiddle, sang, etc.  I play bass on and off with friends' bands around town.  For many years, I was an avid busker (street musician), singing and playing guitar.  I taught myself Celtic fiddle so I could play on the street.  Saved my tips to buy synth gear, which I found rather funny!

josh

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