quiet hands, quiet kiss on the mouth

Wowser, I still don't know if electronica is a wise route to take, musically or financially, but my eyes are certainly opening up to what's out there. In my ignorance I always figured there was a "right" way to go about making glitchy music - as a big fan of going about things the "wrong" way i was quite relieved to find that everyone has a different approach.

Found another useful device:



(i implore you to click and gaze upon its colourful apparel)

Won't go too deep into what it does except to say it's every quirky noise you've ever heard on a glitchy record, neatly packaged so that even a Kooks-loving monkey could pass themselves off as the new Squarepusher, simply by hitting the 'Random' buttons.

I very quickly got the result i was after but therein lies my conflict - it was all too easy. What next? A modelling amp? Autotune?

So, making things hard on myself - I think I need to investigate circuit bending. I'm pretty inspired by this crazy mutha - 6955 - a Tokyo-based Canadian with a penchant for modding audio equipment and vintage computer consoles (go to the site and check out the Famicon/Nintendo control pad pedalboard!!).

However, I don't want to make 8-bit soundscapes - it's just nice to think outside of 2 guitars, 1 bass and some drums for a change. And it's good to suddenly have avenues outside of "embellishing everything with chiming guitars".

In a neat, internet coincidence-a-thon, I ended up on the 'i am robot and proud' last.fm page through one of my online neighbours, he is a Toronto-based indie-electronic artist, and hosts the 6955 site on his website - they probably msn each other about schematics.

Could just be yet another case of perceptual set for me though.