WoRN808

I used to make music with found objects, toy instruments and crap with a 4-track portastudio years ago. Put music on the back burner for decades. When the craving to make music got so strong, at age 47 and having limited space, a copy of Computer Music Mag found me in a bookstore and so I gave it a go and loved it. The learning curve for me is huge, esp. since I also spend a great deal of time painting as well as my full-time chef job. Also none of my friends know anything about making music so I'm working in a vacuum. It's slow going, but I keep plugging at it. It's something I have to do, if anyone likes it great, but if not, sorry about their luck.

Took piano lessons growing up but never practiced. Played trombone in high school and college and haven't touched one since. I love toy instruments of all sorts, also screwing-up guitars and playing them in a completely intuitive manner of my own instead of the conventional way which requires practice.

Renoise mostly and then Ableton Live sometime and tons of free VST plugins.

Crappy off-the-shelf at Best Buy HP Pavillion laptop low-end model. I work for shitty wages as a chef for a non-profit and make the same f'n money now that I did in 1985. To the hundreds who tell me I should get an Mac, if you give me the money, I'll buy one tomorrow.

Kraftwerk Tour de France, Cabaret Voltaire (Nag Nag and Do the Mussolini), a bunch of random Kool Keith/Dr Doom/Mr Nogatco et. al. stuff, various Sun Ra (everything looks and feels lush when Sun Ra tunes are playing), Pauline Oliveros, Chief Doctor Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, Minilogue. I can't think what else right now. I really don't listen to music much only in my car during my 10 minute commute to work.

Eno/Hassell - Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics, I don't know. I'm not one to sit around arguing "these people are better than this" I'm f'n tired of all these music conversations. I like directly experiencing sound. I approach things like a child and don't analyze too much.

Considering we've thousands of years of music history behind us, I always think of this as an absurd question. But to take a stab at it, Eno, Jon Hassel, Kraftwerk, John Cage, Flipper, Robert Fripp, Barry Andrews (XTC), and a ton of other stuff. I think it was the various people who worked with Bjork on her albums that really gave me the strong desire to start paying attention to what sounds people were making electronically more recently.

I'm all over the board. I do some dance mixing stuff when I play with Ableton Live, but usually I'm all over the place. I move between pop, new age, abstract sound compositions (sound paintings), minimalism, grandoiseism and a ton of other stuff.

I am a potager (a soup chef). But have given notice and don't ever want to cook again, I've done it for most of my life and am sick of it.