Comments on: I will be a live musician

By: Shona

Shona — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:07:55 +0000

You need backing Furbies. Dressed like The Supremes. Or summat…..

By: Darryl

Darryl — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:07:01 +0000

You should listen to the new Eno/Byrne track for some inspiration. Thank Dog its great:
Strange Overtones

By: Seb

Seb — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:30:09 +0000

“Bleep Jay Pete” doesn’t trip off the tongue terribly well. How about “Bleep Ashton”?

By: susi

susi — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:43:49 +0000

Hey Pete, stealing the thunder of us *real* musician?! Let us know when you’re playing and I’ll endeavour to come check it out so you’ll have a few ‘groupies’.

BTW: did you know the Google ad on this page says ‘rock hard erections 2.0′. I guess you’re frequent mentions of web 2.0 may trigger this??

By: catnip

catnip — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:24:39 +0000

Re beats, be careful you don’t drown out your original sounds with bog-standard beats.

While watching Fuck Buttons at Supersonic, as soon as they added the 4×4 beats, it kind of felt like I was just listening to a DJ play a hard house track in a club rather than experiencing live music.

Listening to the very start your test track 3 again, I’m not sure you need any extra beats, the rhythmical squeaky bleeps at the start make pretty good beats in themselves and coz they vary a little each time, it doesn’t sound too manufactured. Could you sample those and loop? or even find a way of ‘playing’ the squeaky beats live (either by hand or with some sort of construction)?

Consider broken beats too rather than constant 4×4, which does just end up sounding like hard house.

Anyway, just a thought, what do I know, I’ve never made any music (although I’d love to!). I’m sure it’ll be cool whatever you decide to do, looking forward to it.

Oh and I think I was one of those who joked about doing interpretive dance. If you want to experiment with the covering people in mirrors thing, I’d be glad to help, even if you don’t do it in the live show. My reason for starting tap classes was so I could tap along to drum and bass (although i never really got good enough for that!)