Fun? as a compulsive workaholic I have to make special efforts to take in
some non-productive fun. In recent years I've become fascinated by the
Virtual Frontier of internet games, exploring 3D environments with other
software pilots who could be anywhere in the non-virtual world, but see your
electronic character as if you were in a "real" space with them. Breaking
down the barriers of distance and culture , communicating together....then
blasting each other into bloody pieces with your rail gun!
- Martin Franklin: of Tuu and codetrip
Aside from listening to a lot of different music, I'm completely passionate
about collecting movies on DVD. Especially in the weekend our living room
turns into the little private theater for a marathon of viewing movies.
- Vidna Obmana: ambient/electronic artist @ www.vidnaobmana.org
During the summer I take lots of walks, walk down to the beach, into the
city, anywhere.
I spend lots of time on the web with my new 500MHz imac. It's really fast.
I get involved in Chicago Bear football list and newsgroup stuff. It takes
up lots of my time, especially in the fall.
- lk: (audiochrom)
For fun? Talk shit with friends is the first thing that comes to mind. Just
act like kids, get a sugar high on the lollies we used to eat when we were
little, and dream up ludicrous scenarios that leave us all lying on the
floor laughing. I have this complex history of in-jokes with some friends
that in reality probably forms a large part of my relationship with them.
I'm pretty damn into film, but as with listening to music I'm a bit too
much of an analytical freak to find that fun sometimes. I guess dancing
isn't like that. Dancing to soul, funk, disco and similar stuff is
certainly big fun for me. Likewise I've scored a slot DJing a soul show on
a local radio station and doing that with a couple of friends is looking to
be heaps of fun. The ambient purists are going "a soul show??" in disbelief
right about now...
- Michael Upton : (a.k.a. Jet Jaguar)
I exercise. Some fun, right? But I enjoy challenging myself to do better
than the day before. I also like to read- listing what subjects would take
too much space, but anything that's well written and thought provoking
almost always gets my attention! Hiking around our woods, especially this
time of the year, is great fun. Finally, I love to play and write music-
that's why I do what I do- it's fun for me!
- Jeff Pearce: ambient guitarist
I love to travel. Maybe that's why I never live in one place for too long. Its
the spirit calling of the open road and its lure of uncertainty from point of
departure to point of arrival. Traveling across the lush green rolling hills
and pine scented forests of New England or the bone dry heated evening moon of
the southwest is invigorating and sparks my imagination. Its food for my music
and a cleansing for the soul. I also enjoy listening to alot of music and
lately its been atmospheric jazz like Keith Jarret and Eberhard Webers
"Colors of Chloe" as well as John Serries Hidden World.
- Gregory Kyryluk: Alpha Wave Movement/Open Canvas
Long walks (preferably mushroom hunting
- Robert Rich:Soundscape Productions / Amoeba Music
I try not to make a big distinction between work and play.
It's all fun to some degree, except vacuuming and filling out tax forms.
- Sara Ayers: ambient artist
i am an auto enthusiast, specifically a VW enthusiast (really anything
german)...i own a VW Corrado, have put way too much time and $ into it, but i
love to drive it...fast!!
- Greg Malcolm : of Twine
I enjoy researching subjects of interest (currently Qabbalah and astral
projection), corresponding or visiting with friends, and getting
out-of-doors. And carefully selected film/TV viewing figures in sometimes.
- Seofon: member/producer with Ambient Temple
of Imagination and The
Archipelago
family gatherings and being with my kids.
- Dino Pacifici: Music-Language of the Spirit
I really enjoy a lot of different activities... watching movies,
going to a cafe or restaurant, museum visits, bookstore hopping and
CD shopping, walking in the nearby parks, hanging out with my wife
and with friends... these are all regular fun activities... and, of
course, playing/making music!
- M. Bentley: the foundry
Besides composing and playing music I love to bike, hike, swim and travel. I
love watching scifi movies and reading the same.
- Stephanie Santé: midi guitarist
get drunk and watch the world go by, if I get a chance :-/
- Andrew Lagowski: noise programmer
Reading and computer tinkering, as time allows. I'm lucky that one of my
main hobbies, one of my favorite fun activities, is music, which is also my
"business" of sorts. So I can be messing around and "playing," and still
accomplishing something worthwhile. The old cliche about finding an
activity that you truly love and trying to center your life around it,
really is true. I also try to get outside as much as possible -- running,
hiking, and occasionally mountain biking. Oregon is a great place for that
stuff, because even though it rains a bit, there's an amazing variety of
beautiful scenery -- amazing forests, mountains, high desert, and the most
beautiful beautiful beaches in the world. Thinking about it makes me want
to take up kayaking and rock climbing!
- M. Griffin: Hypnos Recordings
read, masturba-te, drink guiness, shop, make feedback noises on guitar, hang
ten and look at buildings, discuss the future of music/technology and
humanity,, heheheh ,,, (not necessarily in this order)
- aspen: www.involve.co.nz
Writing ambient music used to be what I did for fun (i.e. when not working)
but now I do music full time so anything that doesn't involve music really.
I play cricket (a bit like baseball, only better!), drink cups of tea and
go to the pub for a few beers (much the same as any self-respecting
Englishman!)
- Nick Webb: Farfield
Well, making music is quite a lot of fun for me. Otherwise: reading
fiction and theory (at the moment it is the former, in the form of
Ingebord Bachmann's stories), writing, exploring various veins of
music and film, wandering and bicycling around in San Francisco (or
anywhere else I have the good fortune to be travelling), jumping into
swimming pools when the opportunity arises, and collecting noises and
images with microphone and camera. With unhurried conversation, a
warm pot of green tea, and good music, I am already having fun.
- Joshua Maremont: (Thermal, Boxman Studies, The Archipelago)
Fun... umm... wow... the world is full of it, I almost don't know
where to begin. Spend time with the signifigant other, go hiking and
sit on a mountain to watch a sunrise/sunset, walk, smile, write poetry,
create music (of course)...listen to music, go for a drive... spend
time with friends... the list could go on... but I think that will do
for now :)
- Geoff Varosky: musical nature - an ambient project in experimental sound.
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