This is just a soundcloud link that has almost everything I've worked on and published. You can find me on all platforms, but I primarily make electronic music in the techno/house/hip-hop realm. I chose this track mainly because I feel it most accurately represents what I work on creatively, and I feel it could be utilized in collaboration with various art forms.
This is a video of two killer instrumentalists JD Beck and DOMi which I highly recommend that you check them out. They are supposedly coming out with a project in 2020. I really and mostly intrigued with the visual artist in the background painting to the music. It'd be neat to somehow create a dialogue with another visual artist as a performer, and or a dancer. Might be fun to have the artist influence the music or vice versa.
I love the rich use of texture in your music. It adds and immediacy and a tangibility that I think would strengthen the meaning and emotional impact of protest music. As we experience the world multimodally, I also think the integration of multiple senses into art is a compelling way to convey deeper emotion.
ReplyDeleteI love your song you linked; I feel like I'm melting through lots of different ideas before the verse arises out above the rest. And I love that painting is incorporated into performance in your second video! The two disciplines feel so detached from one another at least in an exhibition sense, I'd love to see how we could push that in a shorter time frame.
ReplyDeleteAll your songs have so many different feelings and colors; I love how much bass you use! I've also been thinking about a similar vision of experimenting with how dance or visual art or even film can be influenced by sound, or visa versa, in a real time conversation.
ReplyDeleteSteve your track is masterful. The footwork tempo, the dense textures, the vocal processing; It is all just so groovy and sucks the listener right in. I think people have to dance to that style of music that you make. It begs some visceral, heart pumping dance choreography. DJ Beck and Domi are just plain prodigies. It's so calculated yet so feelsy and danceable. Would love to see you blend those two ideas of electronic footwork with some live drums.
ReplyDeleteI love They Take IV. It was a real privilege laying bass down on it - thank you for letting me! I'm really interested in this style of electronic music, but am pretty illiterate in the ins and outs of it. I love and hate JD Beck & DOMi - as in they're absolutely ridiculous musicians and I hate them for it. The grooves are immense. I really liked the painting behind it too. It's a very interesting way to augment a musical performance, I think. I'd be interested in painting behind something!
ReplyDeleteThey Take IV from your soundcloud was really cool to listen too. If I were to offer up a descriptor, I might call it relentless. The way you chose to have the motion between chords be non-discrete in the first section had a very striking effect to me, as if the sound was coming in waves or being threaded by a needle.
ReplyDeleteI also chose to upload an example which included visual art as a component of a performance, so I am glad to see someone else had that idea too. I think your idea about having dance or visual art and music influence each other is something that would be excellent to explore in the context of this class!
I'm also intrigued by the painter in the background of DJ Beck and Domi. I think there's something interesting happening between the randomness of their connection to one another. This is a dialogue in and of itself that I think prompts more reflection/questioning than a clear relationship between the musicians and painter would. In following along this randomness train of thought, the bubbling energy in They Take IV would be fun to contrast with someone doing something pretty mundane. Like maybe peeling and eating an orange. Ha
ReplyDeleteIt's really cool how you manipulate your voice in your music - working with formant shifting and overdubbing and layering. It also sounds super clean and its got a lot of dynamic variance in terms of the sound design, its really engaging to listen to!
ReplyDeleteThe production and evolution of your track is so unique and skillfully constructed- can't get enough of it!
ReplyDeleteWow, I have never heard of JD Beck and Domi, and will now have to check them out beyond this video. Their instrumental ability is incredible and I love the idea of live music being inspired by another form of live artistic creation.
I really love the evolution of your track and how voice seems to fit into the textures of your work rather than glossing over the top of it. And I love the idea of creating art behind a performance, definitely interested in exploring that as a physical artist or performer!
ReplyDeleteThe gradual revelation of the voice/text in your piece is fantastic. There is so much loving, painstaking, attention to detail here.
ReplyDeleteI looove the energy of your piece and the first one that they played in the video. I'm just now realizing that I have a serious lack of high energy/fast music in my life.
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