Leafcutter John interview [Listen 24'15"] Picking Up Sound and Spreading the Idea S02 Ep04 (part 3 of 3)
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Picking up Sound and Spreading the Idea with Leafcutter John S02 Ep04 (part 2 of 3)
Interview Date: February 9, 2012 @1pm EDT
Special Guest: Leafcutter John is an
artist, an electronics hobbyist, and a musician who is always thinking up new ways of exploring sound. He has brought out a list of incredible albums like “Microcontact” [Planet-Mu] ,“The Housebound Spirit” [Planet-Mu], “The Forest And The Sea” [Staubgold], and "Tunis" [Tsuku Boshi] as well as worked with the jazz band Polar Bear (with Seb Rochford) on their album “Peepers” [Leaf Label]. He has a website where he describes some fascinating projects that he has worked on like “Making your own Acoustic Guitar,” “Soundtrap 2,” “M-Log Controller,” “Growing your own Contact Mic,” “How to make Laser Microphones, “ “Light Controlled Music,” and much more. Check him out HERE.
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Article On A Long Thin Wire
Guitar, drums, bass, keys, maybe a DJ 
scratching a disc if you're hip. You're hip, right? That's what you need to make music, ya? Forget the laptop, you tool. Without these things you'd be reduced to a cappella, yes? Well, there's a lot more to the world that can be used to produce a work of music, or sound art, or whatever you want to call it, and a lot of it is really brilliant.
Sound can come from many things. Often, the knee-jerk reaction is to dismiss sound art as ridiculous; it gets a lot of flak, and there will always be opponents to anything new, but one thing we're hoping to do here on this site is to introduce listeners to new forms of music; we do this for the love of music. Try it, you might like it. All you need to do is open up your mind and ears and accept music from another approach.
Leafcutter John interview [Listen 35'55"] Filling Up Space and Doing What I’m Told S02 Ep04 (part 2 of 3)
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Filling Up Space and Doing What I'm Told
Interview Date: February 9, 2012 @1pm EDT
Special Guest: Leafcutter John is an artist, an electronics tinkerer and a musician who is always thinking up new ways of exploring sound. He has brought out a list of incredible albums like “Microcontact” [Planet-Mu] ,“The Housebound Spirit” [Planet-Mu], “The Forest And The Sea” [Staubgold], and Tunis [Tsuku Boshi] as well as worked with the jazz band Polar Bear (with Seb Rochford) on their album “Peepers” [Leaf Label]. He has a website where he describes some fascinating projects that he has worked on like “Making your own Acoustic Guitar,” “Soundtrap 2,” “M-Log Controller,” “Growing your own Contact Mic,” “How to make Laser Microphones, “ “Light Controlled Music,” and much more. Check him out HERE.
ATTENTION: We are having a draw to win a 
Colorado Record Crate. Just hit the "like" button at the top of this page to enter. We will be picking one winner once a week for two more weeks (Next deadline is Monday April 9 @ 1 pm). You must be 18 years old and answer a skill test question to win. Tell your friends!!!!
Embracing the Experimental
There are scores of books on experimental music, and many of them are very pointedly academic and obfuscate the concepts to the point that you simply must be an academic, or a dedicated and passionate fan of experimental music already to get through the convoluted and highfaluting verbiage. That's not our point here with this article (except when using the word obfuscate as a case-in-point). I won't even get into the debate about whether avant-garde and experimental music are the same or not; I could, but I want this article to be something different than that.
Experimental music may do themselves a disservice by catering to themselves in nerdy-elitism; but honestly, they probably want it that way. And really, if you can't get past the point of thinking that this type of music is mostly just screeching sounds and random percussion and it really isn't for you, then so be it. You're a lost cause. But if there's something there that intrigues you at all, then this type of music can really take you down a whole new avenue of musical appreciation, and obviously, a type that you can't get elsewhere.
Leafcutter John interview [Listen 29:30 min] Landing My Spaceship with Leafcutter John S02 Ep04 (part 1 of 3)
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Interview Date: February 9, 2012 @1pm EDT
Special Guest: Leafcutter John is an 
artist, an electronics tinkerer and a musician who is always thinking up new ways of exploring sound. He has brought out a list of incredible albums like “Microcontact” [Planet-Mu] ,“The Housebound Spirit” [Planet-Mu], “The Forest And The Sea” [Staubgold], and Tunis [Tsuku Boshi] as well as worked with the jazz band Polar Bear (with Seb Rochford) on their album “Peepers” [Leaf Label]. He has a website where he describes some fascinating projects that he has worked on like “Making your own Acoustic Guitar,” “Soundtrap 2,” “M-Log controller,” “Growing your own Contact Mic,” “How to make Laser Microphones, “ “Light Controlled Music,” and much more.
ATTENTION: We are having a draw to win a Colorado Record Crate. Just hit the "like" button at the top of this page to enter. We will be picking one winner once a week for the next three weeks (first deadline is Monday April 2 @ 1 pm). You must be 18 years old and answer a skill test question to win. Tell your friends!!!!
Are you a Painter, or a Musician?
Musicians, painters, actors, social activists - the line blurs sometimes, and sometimes it is forced upon us. It's forced upon us to accept that success in one area necessarily means ability in another. Sadly, it seems that one of the first steps towards building your musical aspirations is to launch your modelling career. I think the industry is losing sight of something.