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Incorporating Everyday Life?
« on: March 16, 2016, 01:26:56 pm »
A lot of people have different lifestyles, jobs, ways of living, and workflow. What I want to know, How would you say the culture, people, society, and your environment around you affect your music? This could be from what you make being very popular in your social groups, or being raised in a very nature loving community influencing you to play a lot of acoustic guitar in your songs. Maybe you would wake up every morning and go to your job, where you work as a steel mill operator, constantly hearing the grind of steel being formed, loud obnoxious demanding sounds make you think of the rhythm for a heavy, attention songs, like dubstep. Or you walk out only to see thousands of people crowded together in a big city with little room, everyone is yelling at someone and every driver has their hands ready at the wheel to honk at the next a-hole to walk in front of them, driving you into a fast-paced rhythm track, like drum and bass.
So to reiterate my question:
How would you say the culture, people, society, and your environment around you affect your music, whether it be adverse, or positive, obvious, or subtle.

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Re: Incorporating Everyday Life?
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2016, 12:28:39 am »
yeah everything around you effects you

there is a lot of noise in this world, so try and filter out that noise, there is also good influence, so get around that too

what you watch, who you speak to, what goes on your head, what you are exposed to etc

so i try to look at a lot of things to challenge my thinking, magazines, newspapers

i try look at some more housey, electro, dubstep stuff, sometimes, just to see how it is made even if I'm a trance producer



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Re: Incorporating Everyday Life?
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2016, 07:14:50 am »
My dad is a DJ and as a result, I've been exposed to electronic music since I was literally a baby. I'm talking old school ATB, Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, Above & Beyond. (I was born 1997)

My older sister brought modern rock & metal to the family when I was 7 years old. When I was a child she would sometimes play the electric guitar (badly) and I always thought that there was nothing cooler than that.

My middle school offered a guitar class so when I was 12 I finally had the balls to pick it up. The music teacher at school introduced the class to Steve Vai which led to an obsession with the instrument and music in general.

The information age combined with growing up on a computer made it easy for me to find berklee pdfs and teach myself music theory when I was a teenager.

This could literally last forever. Basically if it weren't for my family, computers, and my middle school music teacher exposing me to steve vai, I wouldn't be here. I don't know how the hell I ended up as a producer but I'm glad I did. I can now experience listening to music in ways in which I never thought possible.

A young 14 year old me with a really bad haircut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eMbftWV75w