With all the questions and gripes about systems and features etc. i have to ask the question “why do we do what we do”?
Have had a shit day and am now at home listening to carbon based lifeforms. Lush stringy goodness.
Its the expression of one mind to another that has intrigued me for my whole life.
“Someone understands me”
Expressed in music.
Nothing simpler.
The invention of the synth changed my life and i couldnt be happier.
Dont need guitars or rock… Phhht.
Just programmed patterns and loads of spacial effects.
Someone out therre knows what im talking about…
Thats the whole point.
I’ve realized that I’d rather spend 8 hours programming synths and forget about the world than spend 1 hour making small talk.
I’m a “guitar player” who rarely touches that instrument any more because the sonic capabilities don’t touch my soul nearly as much as making something unique that I’ve never heard before.
I’ve been in a bit of a rut lately, but even then I know that a few hours making something dope moves me to push through another day, even if nobody else hears it.
Loved synths and electronic sounds since the age of 6. They were stunning and they were the future. How could anyone not be into them?
Moving to England in the late 80’s around the beginning of the acid/rave era
helped turn that love into an obsession. Musically Iv’e never known anything else.
I have been sick of it all over the years from time to time (specially when HW looked like dying in favor of software ) but after a break I never fail to fall back in love with them.
I’ve had at last count around 50 hardware synths over the years. As much as I know I should keep things small and simple to suit my workflow,(or lack of it) I just can’t stop buying them.
I love to make music i dont care if it is with a A4 or a tomato can my fisrt love its the guitar then the sax and then Elektron boxes this days I am playing more sax and Elektron than guitar though .
I make this becouse I cant imagine my world an life experience without the rush that playing an instrument gives me it makes me feel really alive that is the reason I like hardware vs software
and sax and guitar vs Elektron.
OP you’ve touched on the basic reason that I play with synths in the first place.
I used to be a guitar player and I think that the reason I left the instrument is that it stopped getting me “lost”. I play synthesizers to lose myself.
i guess we do what we do just because we like to do it
i’ve never been a pro-musician or managed to live with music (but still trying though) mainly because of real life but thing is, after years, i’m still here enjoying the vibrations and every time i play with an instrument or i switch the synths on or listen to some music or do anything which is music related, well, i feel better and get lost in time and space compared to those days when i used to sit on a chair in an office and i was looking at the clock each half an hour waiting to leave…with music is the opposite: i look at the clock hoping it isn’t time to go to bed
music is music and if you like what you do, keep on doing it!
I do not know where to start, too many thoughts pop up in my mind… might try to answer later… guess I know what you are talking about … cyberhug —> connecting with people sort of does the trick, this is even possible through the web, by online collaborations (tried it, it is awesome) … may write more later …
I play music to get into another world, my body possessed by the groove and my mind lost on bright present.
Only thing to plan is the next move, but it’s not like I need to think of it, it comes, somehow guts find its way to the end of my fingers.
Guitar, singing, Elektron, a single Volca Beats or even a spoon, I can even clap my arms or play a beat with my mouth… I don’t care the vehicle as long as Trance takes care of it.
I can get lost for hours, and when I’m back on Earth I can’t say how long I’ve been in the sky.
I second the sentiments about going to another world and how it’s infinitely more fun than small talk (or anything else…) I also find a purer expression of emotions (not strong emotions as much as -specific- emotions) in music than anywhere else in human expression. Words can get close but music can NAIL IT.
Also on the other world tip, I’ve always felt strong synaesthetic effects from synth music. I find it more natural to create sonic representations of the shapes, colors, textures, and motions in my head that I’m too graphically inept to create visuals of.
To share alternative realities.
To be understood and to understand.
To control and to lose control.
To feel and regain the wonder you lost from when you were a child.
To be true to yourself.
To me music is an infinite world, the unknown. It is a universal language, instinctive and basic that sometimes gives a “headache” and almost always lots of fun, always present in my life been and I think that’s what makes it to remain a child, though very many years ago “I quit” to be.
Can not imagine life without music.
Octatrack goes with me to work every day. Before i owned the OT i had dreams that i would perform live without computer and everyone would see that i don’t have that apple sitting on the stage. Yea it happened. People were looking at me like i am some sort of synth head and so called true performer. Yea! I nailed it. But there was something behind all this. I didn’t get back as much as i got when i made music at home. I love that creative process more that performance. I met the ego of djs and that fake personalities. I relised i don’t need that around me. I don’t need to prove myself to anyone but myself. So i take the octatrack to work everyday and record my noodling in the studio. And i come back home and mix that noodles with some pasta and the song is born. The OT is perfect for creative proccess as for performing live. It is the best thing i ever owned.
) but after a break I never fail to fall back in love with them.
my fisrt love its the guitar then the sax and then Elektron boxes this days I am playing more sax and Elektron than guitar though .
