fanboyism

DoorKnobHandle · Sat 25/02/2006 11:29:57

I am constantly influenced by music, movies, life and just about everything that impresses me. Then I express my influences through making music, writing stuff, drawing or creating stuff in AGS. I hope that I can influence others with what I do, just as I was influenced by stuff that others did.

When it comes to music, I usually look up the notes for a song that I thought is great from listening to it. Then I play it on guitar and learn it and I think about the theory behind the second and how it was composed. Sometimes I would even copy a whole sequence and start to modify it (transpose, change the rhythm/time signature) and start to build up new ideas based upon this sequence. And then - BAM! - what used to be a simple idea from a song I liked turned into - to quote Mark Portnoy - "a 12-minute epic".

Ali · Sat 25/02/2006 11:50:51

I find myself subcounsiously influenced. Aftwe watching many episodes of the Mighty Boosh I find a Boosh-like cadence dropping into my normal talkings. I don't really like that though, it's weird.

As for my influences: The Coen Brothers, Terry Gilliam, Bob Dylan.

Basically anyone from around Minnesota, apparently.

ManicMatt · Sat 25/02/2006 11:56:08

Scenes From A Memory Metropolis Part II's album cover looks familiar to me, and the band's logo I've seen before too, perhaps in a magazine or something?

They sound alright yeah! Some sweet guitar riffs going on in there.

EDIT: Some of the synths sound out of date/cheesy? (I'm looking at you "stream of conciousness")

Damien · Sat 25/02/2006 12:43:11

QuoteSome of the synths sound out of date/cheesy?

Could you explain? How does an instrument sound out of date?

Zor, if you like James Blunt, I suggest checking out Jeff Buckley's music.

ManicMatt · Sat 25/02/2006 14:23:29

In the same way i think those midi computer songs sound out of date.

The synth that comes in around one minute into the song, not the very first synth you hear. It sounds like something you'd expect to hear in an old amiga game. But the rest of the music is fine.

Organic instruments never age.

biothlebop · Sat 25/02/2006 16:28:34

My parents have a old Klingmann piano, which does sound aged. It's not the same thing as a detuned instrument, I'd say it has a softer, ambient sound than new pianos. Guess that wasn't exactly what you meant though.
By the way, have you heard the Flecktones? This guy created his own drum machine/guitar/midi thing from the future. That can't sound old, after all it hasn't been invented yet.
http://www.flecktones.com/the_guys/futch.asp

Tuomas · Sat 25/02/2006 17:54:33

I checked the website out, and some of the pictures... Isn't the bassist the same guy as in this video? http://media.putfile.com/thumpoff

ManicMatt · Sat 25/02/2006 18:46:09

I wouldn't know, but at least they are in tune, rather than some of the guitars from the song available in the flecktones website.

But hey! Flecktones don't sound aged, no.

biothlebop · Sat 25/02/2006 21:12:11

We are living in the afterfuture. (Multi-touch screen video)

mpeg
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/multitouchreel.mpg
or
quicktime
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/multitouchreel.mp4

Tuomas · Sun 26/02/2006 11:43:53

That video was kool!

xenogia · Mon 27/02/2006 09:41:54

DKH it's Mike Portnoy not Mark Portnoy ..