New Members! Please Introduce Yourself!

[Jeff Harrington]

We've been getting a lot of new members and some of them don't speak Swedish! Weird.

Please tell us a little bit about yourself. We're a friendly group - we don't bite - and we may even love your music! Or then again, given the current state of new music today... who knows! But whatever, tell us about yourselves please... I see a lot of names I've known for years and now we have pics and tuneage so... let's put it all together.

One request, we'd prefer it if you didn't upload too many MP3's. It's better for us if you just add links to your MP3's. (It's at the bottom of the Add Song Page). If we go over our allotted 10 GB, somebody is going to have to start paying $$ and I think I know how that person will be. Thanks!

[William Robinson]

I'm William Robinson. I'm a self-taught guitar player, and used to play in bands, but now work at a wind-chime factory.
I have a BFA in fine arts (visual), and took 3 music theory classes and some piano.
I've been listening to "new" music ever since the days of vinyl, where I found most of my records in cut-out bins. Stockhausen on DG, all the Nonesuch/Turnabout/Vox electronic stuff.
I finally have a computer set-up (Apple G5/Logic), and the internet is opening up the vistas.
I'm still studying theory: Hanson: Harmonic Materials of Modern Music, Rahn: Basic Post-Tonal Theory, and Forte.
It's just a matter of finding time to create.

[Jeff Harrington]

Work in a wind chime factory! Wild! Do you guys have a testing room full of hundreds of wind chimes? Record it! Welcome aboard... ;-)

William Robinson said:

I'm William Robinson. I'm a self-taught guitar player, and used to play in bands, but now work at a wind-chime factory.
I have a BFA in fine arts (visual), and took 3 music theory classes and some piano.
I've been listening to "new" music ever since the days of vinyl, where I found most of my records in cut-out bins. Stockhausen on DG, all the Nonesuch/Turnabout/Vox electronic stuff.
I finally have a computer set-up (Apple G5/Logic), and the internet is opening up the vistas.
I'm still studying theory: Hanson: Harmonic Materials of Modern Music, Rahn: Basic Post-Tonal Theory, and Forte.
It's just a matter of finding time to create.

[Steve Layton]

Sounds like we haunted the same cut-out and budget bins. My best friend was all DG, EMI, RCA Red Label; I was all Everest, Vox, Turnabout, Candide, Nonesuch... But that meant I had a much better collection of newer & obscure composers. And I spent a LOT of time taping every unusual thing from the university library's collection, too.

You don't need time to write anymore! You've got the computer; just start some algorithm and come back a few days later & see what you've got... That's how all of us do it nowadays! (ha ha)

My own bio is here, and easy enough to read. The only difference is that I've gone from the North to the South since then. Less breakfast scones, more breakfast tacos...

Steve

William Robinson said:

I'm William Robinson. I'm a self-taught guitar player, and used to play in bands, but now work at a wind-chime factory.
I have a BFA in fine arts (visual), and took 3 music theory classes and some piano.
I've been listening to "new" music ever since the days of vinyl, where I found most of my records in cut-out bins. Stockhausen on DG, all the Nonesuch/Turnabout/Vox electronic stuff.
I finally have a computer set-up (Apple G5/Logic), and the internet is opening up the vistas.
I'm still studying theory: Hanson: Harmonic Materials of Modern Music, Rahn: Basic Post-Tonal Theory, and Forte.
It's just a matter of finding time to create.

[Steve Moshier]

Jeff:

I'm 'In.' Whatever the costs!! This site is: FANTASTIC!

-Steve (Sharky)

[Johnny & Faith]

I'm Johnny, producer of space music & abstract ambient stuff under the name LoveCraft's Adjectives, and bug music under the name Token Wonder. I met Jeff back in the Acid Bach Mp3.com days and we bump into each other online now and again. I like this place. CHEERS!

[Jeff Harrington]

You guys should definitely check out LoveCraft's Adjectives. Some of the more interesting electronic music I've heard these parts. Welcome aboard Johnny...

Johnny & Faith said:

I'm Johnny, producer of space music & abstract ambient stuff under the name LoveCraft's Adjectives, and bug music under the name Token Wonder. I met Jeff back in the Acid Bach Mp3.com days and we bump into each other online now and again. I like this place. CHEERS!

[Jeff Harrington]

Haha... Steve, I think we've already figured YOU out. Just don't leave a mess when you're done trashing the place with your weird L.A. attitudes!!!

Steve Moshier said:

Jeff:

I'm 'In.' Whatever the costs!! This site is: FANTASTIC!

-Steve (Sharky)

[Caleb Deupree]

Hi, I'm Caleb Deupree, a pianist and retired software engineer, originally from Cincinnati, but currently residing in Tucson, Arizona. I learned about new music from the same vinyl bins as everyone else in this thread, although I didn't see the Wergo label mentioned specifically in the list above. I started piano very young and played a lot of Cage and Feldman in my younger days, but quit piano for several years during my career. I picked it up again about eight years ago, retired two years ago, and relocated to a better climate. I still play piano, but also have a well-equipped Mac (Digital Performer and Native Instruments), and a blog where I write about new music, electronic and acoustic, especially drone works. So far my compositional efforts have produced several works-in-progress, but I have one completed electroacoustic work, Cathedral, made primarily from samples of my piano. An excerpt of this piece was included earlier this year on the Webbed Hand netlabel's String Ambient compilation.

Nice to be here, looks like a fun site.

[john gzowski]

I'm John Gzowski. I'm a guitar player who has branched out into new music, improv, microtonal and world musics. No degrees, though lots of continued studying. I do quite a bit of functional music, but also sound installations and things that fill in the cracks. I was also co-artistic director of the music gallery here in Toronto for a couple of years, but prefer the free lance lifestyle. really. I'm new here, and not being a member of facebook or myspace, don't know how much I'll get into this, but I'm looking forward to seeing what it can be.

[Jeff Harrington]

Welcome aboard Caleb and John! Looks like we have enough microtonalists here now to start a group!

[Caitlin Rowley]

Hi all! I'm an Australian composer now living in London and juggling intermittent day-job work as a web interface developer with composition, musicological and web projects. You can hear a few samples (mostly computer-generated, I fear, but there are a few live examples too) at my website, minim-media.com.

I studied in Sydney with Peter Sculthorpe, and most recently have been working on pieces for voices and solo piano, and I've just embarked on a large-scale piece based on Dante's Inferno. Stylistically, I lean towards the post-minimalist/minimalist/neo-tonal end of the spectrum and I feel very close to French music of the early 20th century in particular. I wrote my Honours thesis on Erik Satie, and maintain (in the loosest sense of the word) a website devoted to my research into Satie's music. Hoping to find the time soon to start investigating different tuning systems - Kyle Gann's Custer and Sitting Bull was an absolute revelation!

[Charles Turner]

I'm Charles Turner, composer from Massachusetts. I guess I'm a bit of a magpie stylistically; I write chamber music, opera and musical theater, electronic music, church music (I'm music director at my church), and I play shakuhachi and electric bass. I play in an improvisation group and sometimes perform in small choral ensembles which do Josquin and others like him. I also sing in the Cantata Singers of Boston, though not as often as I would like to. I also write libretti and am working on a novel. I'm a software engineer, too.