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Eisnein, I'll post some soon. I haven't played out yet. Spent 8 hrs a day since August working on new material, and optimizing my knowledge of Logic and Live. Actually, I was singing and playing guitar a promising group that just fizzled out. I'm glad. I have been making leaps and bounds through Rewiring my tracks through Logic and I may be ready to play out soon.

I resisted music through computers for a long time. Having studied Graphic Design and grown up around them I wanted to learn how to make beats with a kit, and find ways of doing things physically (because I have always been a visual thinker) first. Growing up in NYC during NASA, and what not, I heared a lot of great beats, and a lot of generic ones. I tried new disciplines to find my soul through beats. There came a point where I was collecting delay processors, tablas, etc, and looking at second hand engineering texts/ and annoying robotics buddies from CMU for ways to run different ways of organizing live audio from unconventional sources. It was quite an uphill battle, but also quite a learning process.

I soon found myself at a roadblock, where I was spending more money and not getting closer to organization, so I picked up a second full time job
doing research work (advanced Fluorescent Microscopy, Cell-staining, the works.) I had no time to make music, but the checks kept coming in, and the ideas never stopped. I must say, after reading x amount of science fiction, and then staring at cells (that you split) growing/dying undermultiple wavelengths, 8 hours a day, it was hard not to find a link between production of quantifiable organic changes, and the NEED for some seriously organic electronic music to go along with it.

So eventually I bought some equipment, and my audio card came with Live. Needless to say I lost both of my jobs. I have been living the dream. Getting unemployment from both gigs and applying a newly acquired level of scientific analysis to expressing myself through electronic music. It has been less than a year that I have been working on a computer but I am getting really close (imo) to dropping some serious tracks. Rant Rant Rant.

Spending time on this forum especially has given me so much incredible insight, help and has expedited the process of writing music on a cpu, for me. I really look foward to sharing the stuff I have been making. Sorry for ranting on your thread Kabuki. I just wanted to explain why I don't have anything to share, without an explanation.

wow dude, wow.

cell staining? wow.

yeah i pulled a unemployed thing after school- wrote my first disc, sometimes it is easier to work on your own, not to cut out working with other people, but its certainly easier when you only need one person to show up for practice!

well, i am looking forward to hearing this stuff. let me know when you post it up.

ttyl

conny wrote:A bump, don't let me ruin the nice thread, but:

ishimaru's sig:

Every situation(1) should be confronted with its opposite(2) to come to a better situation(3).

1 Thesis
2 Antithesis
3 Synthesis

- Hegel

makes me nervous. Like it but it feels like it's gonna be an infinite, recursive loop. The "every" would include the opposite and the result until every second shakes to pieces...

// C

that's life,aint it?...an infinite loop....at least that's what i see...

this sig. is gonna make me go BUY my first hardcopy book since i got Visual C++ 5.0 at my 16...

ok, here goes.....

in the early 80s, in L.A., I was a couple of years into playing with a single band (called Planet 10, which finally disbanded in the later 80s... ironically, there is another UK band goes by that name now, people probably in diapers when we were doing it! )..... anyway, we were doing well, blah blah blah...

I decided to do a few sideline projects, just for kicks.... pulled together people from various bands we gigged alongside in the L.A. scene at the time (RHCP, Los Lobos, Untouchables, Fishbone, et al) and did some "after hours" jams under names like "The Gumps", "A Nation of Kings", and the like..... another called "Babushka", which was very synth-centric.... (for historical reference, we did probably most of these late-night sessions at a now-defunct two-tone club called "The On Klub" in L.A.'s Silverlake area...)

Eventually I left Planet 10, but came up with an idea for a new collaborative effort. The focus of it was to explore the merging of ethnic/organic/acoustic music with the bourgeoning electronic/synthesized/sequenced music styles of the day (hey, sounds right familiar these days!).... Looking for a good descriptive name for that effort, I came up with "Tribalogic"..... (concatenates Tribal + Logic)

Kicked it off with a few people, Fish (drummer for Fishbone), Paula (bass player for the reworked Go Go's), and others who shall remain unnamed....

Kept it alive off and on over some years, with various players coming and going. Exactly as intended, and great fun..... we learned so much from those explorations.

Much later expanded my own "handle", based on the idea that if I'm 'doing' "tribalogic", I'm 'being' "tribalogical".....? Make sense? At all? Maybe??

In truth, nothing so terribly "intellectual" as all that... I just kind of like that it has a nice 'ring' to it.....

And it describes pretty well how I go about making music these days, as a sort of "philosophy" all on its own.....

So there you have it........ sorry for the long-winded posting....!

peace,
tribalogical

as in husker du...from my younger years...though Bob Mould is using Reason these days!?!

not nearly as cool: http://www.huskers.com