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"Gotta Be Me"What makes your music different than anyone elses? |
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Since all my music is done entirely on the electric guitar, that would be
the obvious answer. However, getting past the instrument that it's played
on, my music best represents me as a person- just like everyone else's
does. Part of what contributes to my music is what I expose myself to
musically- if all I did was sit around listening to only ambient music, or,
God forbid, only MY own music, the compositions would get pretty
isolationary pretty quick. Whenever I need to get inspired pretty quick,
I'll listen to either the music of Hildegard von Bingen or Miles Davis. - Jeff Pearce: ambient guitarist
Hm? I think that it integrates electronics into an 'ethereal/gothic'
setting in a way that isn't intrusive, but rather enhances the mood. Most
people who use keyboards want it to be obvious, and get into all the new
fangled equipment or retro analog stuff . . . I think the songs and moods
are more important, than the gadgetry.
The minimal music that I did in the 70's and early 80's was unique in the way
it used silence as an architectural space. There were no melodies. I tried
to minimize the harmonic aspect by using only one chord in my works. (I only
used one chord for about 10 years.) I just used blocks of sound and silence.
It's more architecture than music. Maybe it's related to the "furniture
music" concept of Satie - in concept but not in style. Maybe it's REAL
ambient in that aspect... real minimal too.
Different ? Mmmm, I think I'm sober enough to say that my music definitely
belongs to an existing genre. However, I do think within this style I
succeed in sending out the music with my signature and the persistence of
using these specific techniques of looping surely contributes to achieve
this personality. I also worked a long time with specific settings for
creating the sounds but since my latest album 'Crossing the trail' I'm
gently moving away from this standard application.
Nevertheless I'm sure one way or another those elements will never
disappear, they just became a part of my life.
Without being snide, just the fact that I gave it form makes it uniquely
mine. I regard myself as a conduit for greater energies, the creative
spark coming from...where? So in allowing it to pass through me I lend
it a form which is going to be irreversably influenced by my life
experiences and who I am, both the skills I have and those I don't have.
That's the main thing. Probably some of the concepts I work with are
different from what other musicians work with, but I think it is in
allowing the creative process to be personal and reflect oneself that
each artist's work becomes unique.
To be critical to anyone elses and reflect noise in private life.
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