audience you can ONLY witness something completely unique, a totally unrepeatable performance. Isn't that the absolute best expression of what live music should be? Let a record be a record. I have no interest in seeing someone who pretends to play live by DJing their tracks, or muting some elements in and out while adding the odd hand-played element or effect send. It's just not interesting. Instead let's take risks and give an audience an experience they can only witness because they were there. So I'm trying to build a rig that operates somewhere inbetween Surgeon and Steevio’s techniques, and play some shows built for dancing. I'll do a video explanation and demo if I can manage to pull it off ...
To round off is there anything you'd like to mention or shout out?
Ironically, I want to make a hypocritical reminder - that the gear doesn’t matter. Really.
Zoe of Transistor Sounds Labs pointed something significant out to me recently - You might think Selected Ambient Works 1 was made with incredible gear, with an actual 808 and so forth, but it’s quite clear if you do a little detective work that it almost certainly wasn’t posh gear at all, quite the opposite. “Selected Ambient Works 85-92 and Surfing on Sine Waves are mostly if not entirely digital sounds. Even the 808s are samples on an R8.” (Link to more on that) Probably an R8, FZ1, probably an Atari, Quadraverb and a DX100 - certainly you could do it with that. From these shitty, cheap, DIGITAL bits of kit, comes organic music some of us can’t possibly conceive of how it could be made by human hand. You likely already have everything you need to do amazing work RIGHT NOW, you just need to sit down and do it. Just make music every day. Don’t be precious about it - quantity is far more important than quality because nobody ever sits down and says “Today I will write my masterpiece”. It’s a statistical battle, so tip the odds in your favour by writing more music at all costs. One day you’ll write shit, but the next day you’ll probably write something wicked. Just write. If it gives you goosebumps, it's good. Don’t stop.
Cheers to Mylar Melodies for the interview he's a darling and a Yorkshireman hiding out in London (I've got a soft spot for him). Be sure to check out his YouTube channel HERE and his Patreon page HERE. Go support him, he's doing good stuff.