1- How do you ponder about music?

I don't. For me music hits you at an emotional level. I barely write songs, but whenever I've done it, they've come from a place in my heart, which must not be a very good place because I never really like my songs

2- Which styles of music are you interested and want to make a masterpiece in that style or genre and why?

I like guitar-based rock music (from 50s rockabilly to nu metal), but i listen to all kinds of music. Style aside, I like good songs, which once again, hit a nerve in me. I don't get really moved by synthesizers, but that's just because I'm old. Music is related to where you come from, your roots. I was raised in a time where music (with acoustic or electronic instruments) was made with large console sound and tape. It's the sound that touches my soul. As for a masterpiece, I'd just love to write a song that transcends styles and generations. That's the ticket to eternity. Riffs like that in "Smoke on the Water" or melodies like "The Sound of Silence" live on.

3- What does influential music mean to you?

I guess at this point my position should be clear to you. Influential music touches people's hearts to the point that whatever is under the hood (music theory, recording medium and quality, off-key or ungridded grooves) becomes irrelevant because your mind is so filled with emotion that you'll keep it with your life events, happy, depressive or what not.

 

I see you are a man of distinctive taste and refined sensibilities...

when I hit a musical dry spell.. I often turn to the Hoffster for inspiration as well... and not to mention
his world famous cheeseburger eating method... priceless

 

1- How do you ponder about music?

If I want to set a mood for a song, it's usually the same mood. It's usually a happy song but sometimes it's a mildly dark or sad song. Now, the saddest songs I ever made were at times where I was actually walking on cloud 9. The happiest songs I ever wrote were at times where I felt sad. A lot of people are enjoying their lives but they are somewhat asleep to the way our world is - everywhere I go there is someone feeling sad or there's someone fighting. For example, today I went out for a walk on the town while it was just a 45 minute 2.8 mile walk, I saw 3 couples arguing with one another (one said "I hate you" and I did hear the word "divorce" a couple times), 3 people crying for whatever reason, and 2 road rage incidents (guy yelling out the window to another driver). There is a lot of crap going on in this world. But while it isn't all magical fairytales, it isn't all a hellhole either. But the side of it that is a hellhole is never invisible to me. Music reflects the negativity in the world. I turn on the radio and all I hear about is sex, drugs, violence, partying (drinking especially) and crime. Once in a while there will be about something else. Ie: "DJ play that song... the one that makes me go oooooh" lol. It's like they went "Hey we need to write a song about something other than sex, parties, and violence. What should we write about?" *After a sweaty, stress inducing 5 hours of thinking really hard what else to write about* "Oh! There it is! Let's write a song about... a song!" So it makes me think even more about the negativity in this world. It's ok to be aware of it, but it's unhealthy to focus on it. All the violence, political crap, dividing us as a population, lies, fake people, fake news, it all makes you wonder if anything is real anymore. Truth be told, not a whole lot is real but there certainly is realism that remains. It's up to us to find it. It doesn't necessarily come knocking on your door. Personally, I'd rather shed light on the positive aspects of the world. So I try to make it so my music reflects the beauty in the world, because it does exist. If it's cold outside (I don't like the cold, I'm a summer guy), I make tropical house music to bring me a taste of summer. My music is my way of trying to see the beauty in everything. I ponder music as a mental key to the universe. I often find myself angry about something/someone but it helps to unplug and write some music. While I have a lot of criticism for the current era of music, I must not forget about the good artists that do exist. Music is a lot of things to me - I can go on and on some more.

2- Which styles of music are you interested and want to make a masterpiece in that style or genre and why?

Usually chillout styles of music. I always wanted to make music like OceanLab, London Grammar, Tycho (especially Tycho), and Owl City in regards to chillout/electronic music. In terms of rock and real instrumentation, I always dreamed of making music/writing songs like Third Eye Blind, Oasis, and U2. Especially U2. The Edge's guitar tones are incredible and wish I could emulate them better than I do now. Reason being because I love those dreamy yet crispy tones. There's nothing like it.

3- What does influential music mean to you?

I never truly wanna be a "copy" of someone. I feel like in modern pop culture, everyone sounds the same, looks the same, acts the same, and likes the same things. And it's always been that way throughout music. Even the wonder years of the 1980's brought to us a lot of huge artists that all sounded the same until eventually the next trend took over and the cycle repeated once again. So it's hard to tell who inspires who nowadays. But most interestingly, I've seen some pop stars' interviews where they tell you their influence(s) and you'd never guessed it. For example, I once saw Katy Perry had an interview and she stated her influence in music was Alanis Morissette. Then there's artists like me where you can kinda hear the Owl City-influence or hints of Tycho and U2. It's obvious who my influences were.

Contrary to that, musical influence to me usually has nothing to do with other artists. The biggest musical inspirations to me where events in my life. Some where small and simple (but huge and epic to me) and some where magical/powerful moments. There was this one time in late September 2010 when my cat didn't come home one morning (he always came home in the morning). I lived at the beach, so I always did my evening walks along the beach. I'd go up the state park road and make my way to the park, stare at the stars and head home. The moon was bright that night and there was a show of ships with bright lights on the horizon that played a dazzling light show reflecting off the water. I was chilling on the park bench watching (was right down the road from my house) and eventually my cat found me. I cuddled him and then we sat on the bench together and watched the lights over the horizon and eventually I took him home safe and sound. Now what does this have to do with musical inspiration is probably the first question on your mind. Well eventually it inspired an entire 11 song album from me. I called it "Ocean Lights" referring to the ship lights over the horizon as well as the bright 3 quarter moon that night. In 2011, I finally released that album. Only 7 copies were made, but it was the only album I made inspired by one simple event. You always have these stories in your life that inspire you musically. That was, on a rather larger scale, one of them.

 

im very influenced by veteran producers and sound engineers from europe each one has his own style ,I started loving (bohlen-rodriguez team,hindriks-hartmann team,brandes,cretu-gads team,SIB team,
all the way to jean michel jarre ,classical rock from swedish europe band,pop-rock vanilla ninja from estonia,classical rock finland's nightwish, i also hooked to trance style with armin van buuren radioshow ,of course quincy jones and stevie wonders are legends lets not forget that

all above producers were very popular with signature keys and catchy melodic patterns
and they worked so hard to let their music out

i can select michal cretu as the one im very very intrested and influenced by his work
in the 70s 80s 90s and today (hes famous for the producer behind Enigma project)

it will be my dream to come up with 1% with what they done for music industry
its amazing enough to know how he evolved his own sound using couple of old synthesizers (in his first album released in 1979)to a computer based samplers ,
(details on wiki) , each track he made has a unique story ,bass, keys,vocals
i did ID few sounds and keys from enigma albums with him and gad using different snthesizers
from yamaha,viruss access,and resample the sounds again in reverse modes,and filtering,and as gad said in some video on youtube that they just used 10% of those sounds only,and the rest in saved in their own sound libraries,i mean they both worked on creating sounds from few ready samples
thats why cretu is genius when it comes to sound design

i still cant figure out what mood im trying to copy when im opening
my daw with clean sheet because i want my music to sound just like all above

 

1. Do the drums slap? Does the bass caress my chest? Does the melody make me wanna close my eyes and follow it with my head?

2. Boom Bap (not so much anymore); grunge; Negro spirituals; some Nujabes; some Keane (first album only); some disposable Trap beats and Noah "40" Shebib's earlier lo-fi production.

3. Shit that motherfuckers like!

 

Any clue to become a motherfucker? The only way I think can whip up enthusiasm inside us to change our taste.

 

I beg your pardon? Pink Floyd's founding member Richard Wright was born 1943, David Gilmore, sometimes playing the keyboards too, was born 1946! Leads me to the question how old are you???

 

You don't personally have to become a motherfucker--just make music for motherfuckers.

 

If you make some motha-fuckin’ music for some fuckin’ mother-fuckas, the rules of mathematics dictate that you are a fucker.

 

One could be doing it to feed one's brood (arguably trumps artistic integrity), or to distract said fuckers, thereby keeping them from [undesirable] fuckery ("music has charms to soothe the savage ̶m̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶f̶u̶c̶k̶e̶r̶ father."

A & B; A & ~B; therefore ~(A -> B)

 

I love how one minute we were talking about musical inspiration and then next thing you know we were talking about motherfuckers.

I'd say how, but some may find incest references (and The Beverly Hillbillies) a little offensive. So I'll hush on that one.

Funny how conversations unravel nowadays.

 

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i'M OPEN TO THE IDEA.......

Serious though

you have tonal, modal and poly-tonal ( music with pitches)
then you have noise. (music not containing pitches)
I, myself love things in all of the categories

 

I'm 44, but I've never really liked the Floyd. I know that makes me look very unmusical and uneducated, but it doesn't float my boat. There are some beautiful songs, like Comfortably Numb, so cool, but I don't really go beyond that.

 

you must be new here... ummm..

I get it.. but aside from maybe the Stones ( ? ) so much of classic rock has synths or some form
of keys besides basic piano.... but for the heck of it... how about some examples of
the music that moves you ? Oh and up to a point REM avoided synths for the most part as well...

edit: ok I see you mentioned some of that above... that's what I get for skimming responses
Indeed pop/rock from the 50's had no synths in it... ( or very rare if at all )...

 

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So it's not a question of age, kid.

 

still believe in the power of clever(just keep it simple stupid) phrase/melody/chord progression building and the banging bass so in trance

an in memorable moments

 

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Can old people legitimately make music for young people?

 

Are you serious? From Rolling Stones born in the second last century to Armin van Buuren born 1976 the answer is a definitive YES!

 

music brings the different generations together, so the answer is a definitely yepp

don't think Vivaldi is outdated just because he was passed away

love Moroder too

 

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In all fairness, they made their music while they were young.

And spent the rest of their lives performing it.