I’m curious how people position their bodies when they are working on music.
Do you stand mostly in one place? Stand but run around a lot?
Sit in one place? Sit on a rolly chair and move all over?
Combination?
Sitting on a couch with something in your lap?
At the park?
Where and how do you position yourselves when you’re working on music, why and what ‘style’ of music do you make?
back in the days when i was a teenager… I was sitting behind a desk and a computer…
The older I got, the more i got into playing hardware… so the desk got bigger and higher… until the point i could stand behind it and jump up and down while jamming.
I got even older, the studio got bigger… so at that time i was dancing between all my gear, running around from machine to machine… Got more old… smaller studio… back to the jumping again… I saw the first grey hair this morning… and the majority of the time. i sit at the kitchentable with a laptop… except when i wanna feel like a kid…
then you find me jumping behind a high-desk with my elektrons on top… partying like it was 1999…
the worst is when the table/desk is relatively low, being hunched over the gear.
2nd worst is with the desk a bit higher, standing upright, but neck bent down to look at displays etc.
need to be more careful… a problem is, being absorbed by tweaking params it’s so easily forgotten for how many minutes (hours?) one has been in a pose like that…
I finally got a flight case/pedal board with all my gear neatly placed inside of it. Just waiting on a small tiny mixer to bring it all together. I don’t seem to have anything in my house that’ll hold at an appropriate height.
When at home I like to take them out of the eit1 and use them 1 at a time on my lap.
I find that this is the most comfortable and I almost get better results in this fashion. Especially for patch design. I do very little production work these days as our live shows are all improv, so I don’t find myself organizing my desk as much these days. If I want everything going, I tend to set up at home, as if in a live setting.
At first glance, I thought you were going down a water slide at an amusement park with your OT. I was like “damn- this guy’s punk rock about his electronics”.
At first glance, I thought you were going down a water slide at an amusement park with your OT. I was like “damn- this guy’s punk rock about his electronics”.[/quote]
Waterslide… I got a good laugh on that one.
Right now my ot is vertical at about eye level at my desk. I’m not sure that’s where it will stay though.
^ here’s my current setup. the standing desk has been good, but the seat i have for it tends to swivel to the left all the time. overall, i prefer standing though. waiting on a small basic mixer to install (velcro) inside before i can start moving it around the house and other places to play. the flight case is pretty huge and unwieldy though.