I used to think that I should watch
TV I used to think that it was good for
me the recording part of music has
gotten much cheaper people can record on
their
laptops uh they can edit and compose on
their laptops um and the quality is fine
the means of production have been handed
to the the creators which is kind of
wonderful but it means that there's a
lot being created
and not all of it is good
I the the software that allows us to
record on laptops tends to encourage us
to record in certain ways it tends to
make the songs very regular
repeatable uh the tempos are usually
very strict and steady which at some
point in the past was an ideal but it's
not an a absolutely steady tempo is
maybe not a not the best thing in the
world so in some ways the computers and
the
technology push us in a certain
direction and we have to know creatively
when to resist that when to
resist uh the things that the computer
makes too easy depending on what kind of
music it is I'll start off with maybe a
guitar or something first to get um to
get a
framework starting without the computer
allows me a certain kind of Freedom I'm
not restricted by what the computer
tries to get me to
do I know I like behold I love this
giant big Soul big lips that's me and I
am this everybody gets a touch
the everybody's in the passing Lane
adoration makes it touch Dark Shadows
we to be honest I don't think the
quality of recordings is the most
important
thing
uh this music that I heard when I was
very young I heard it on a a horrible
sounding little
radio and but it completely moved me it
completely changed the way I thought
about music and other things I try and
when obviously when I'm recording uh or
capturing a piece of music I try and get
the sound to be as good as possible but
I realized that
that somewhere down the line people
might be listening on their phone with
their headphones they might even be
listening just holding the phone in
their hand maybe they'll be listening on
their computer speakers that's very
likely you know the speakers that are
maybe this big so I realize that it's
there it's there if people want it but
if they don't want it or can't afford it
or don't need it I hope that this the
song or the Music
Works in whatever format
how am I not your
brother how
are when I see people listening to music
on their phones maybe without even a
headphone with just holding the phone up
it makes me wonder okay what kind of
music works really
well like that a global pop music is
that the the kind of music sounds best
like this or is it some other kind of
music that
sounds uh best like maybe a solo uh a
solo violin or something very very
simple if one were to compose music that
would sound good when you just hold up a
phone what would it be I don't
know better the we inside of me
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