i spent an hour or so yesterday sketching this stuff on illustrator. i'm really getting into that POS and the excellent, free scriptographer plugin that lets me write my own tools. i even flexed my puny javascript skills and created a highly controllable n-sided polygon spray tool for the snow in that picture. MAD SKILLZ!
it would be nice to learn a bit more coding but to be honest i'm already interested in graphics and music and doing game/concept design for living ... and with only 24 hours a day there's only so much one can stretch to.
along with my inevitable escape plan i've also been thinking of other kind of busting out.
what's live music? i've been thinking of doing a solo live set of polyfonken stuff (with some of my ghost monkey bits as bonuses). but it would be just me, a sequencer/sampler and maybe a small synth i could turn the knobs of.
the most boring live shows i've seen have been those featuring lonely guys with their shiny laptops, usually doing some glitchy trickstery. just mousing away, maybe nodding to the overtly complex beat they're currently raping. no seeming correlation between the flegmatic mousing and the attention-deficit music. the audience either drinking their drinks and talking or, if the "music" is loud enough, on the dancefloor looking at the guy, trying to nod to that needlessly glitchy shit.
seriously, for me that stuff is even more boring than listening to finnish academic musicians playing "world" music or their weedless version of dub. of course there's a distinct possibility that it's just me. that the rest of the world is content with laptop live shows.
yeah. maybe it's just me but i wouldn't want to end up being the guy boring his poor audience to premature death with his laptop-sturbation. even if it has knobs and flashing lights, the sequencer/sampler can be seen as a huge laptop. not as shiny and mousey as those guys use but something that could be kept on my lap if the said lap was a bit stronger. and i wouldn't be doing a lot of actual playing, just like those guys aren't. Besides, i only have a single pair of hands.
but it would be nice to play some tunes live. maybe if the music was loud enough? if i would only play house and really distorted and loud amen variations?
