From thatcat Sent Thu, May 21st 1998, 00:42
From thatcat Sent Thu, May 21st 1998, 00:42
On 05/19/98 23:15:37 you wrote: >It really depends on the composer. Step time isn't any more tedious than >playing live if you're experienced (I find that older people have more >trouble with step-time because they didn't grow up w/ computers). when i first started making music, i step-entered everything because i couldn't play keyboards. i found it fairly tedious, and very difficult to do anything rhythmically interesting...i.e., at least on my sequencer (which i realize is probably partially responsible for my dislike of step programming) you either have to enter straight 8th (or 16th or 32nd or whatever) notes...which i find rhythmically boring...or keep going back and forth changing the note values every couple of notes...sucks all the fun out of writing, for me. also, step recording seems to require you to know more of what you're writing before you step record it...i.e. you have to decide on a rhythm, and then is that an eighth note then a dotted quarter or two eighths and a rest or...? it's just not the way i think. i guess it was silly to assume that no one thinks like that. but it does sound to me like most ae tracks are too intricate to be completely programmed, unless they spend weeks and weeks on each tra! ck. but again i could be wrong.. .i know they don't have day jobs! as for age influencing like/dislike of step recording, i've had a computer of some sort or other since i was 9 or 10...? >I used to own a recording studio in partnership with Chris Brann of Wamdue >Productions, and we were in several bands together. Chris is an incredible >keyboard player, far more skilled than I'll ever be. However, when >composing Chris would step EVERYTHING into his sequencer. I asked him why. >He said that it was faster - he could capture what he felt the first time. >His sense of timing was such that he knew how many 1/384ths of a measure to >put between notes. Unfuckingbelievable. Chris started using a sequencer >when he was 12, so it was as natural as playing a keyboard to him. very odd indeed. >I don't think you can use your own experience to predict how Autechre use >their equipment. My guess would be that they do some things in unorthodox ways. i wasn't just using my experience, but the experience of everyone i've ever met who was an electronic musician. obviously i still shouldn't have made generalizations from that, though. "a dream is worth a thousand pictures, the mouths of lampreys a thousand more..."