MC> Very contemporary for its time.  Kinda like He Said, if you've ever
 MC> heard of that.  I could make a copy of it for you on VHS HiFi tape if
 MC> you have a VHS HiFi VCR.
If I want a copy, I will get it on standard cassettes. I find that
"Sound quality" is usually pointless, and it would be a big trouble to
either copy these on regular cassettes or bring that video player in
the basement where I listen to the music most of the time..
MB>> It isn't rhythmic nor rich in tonality, then why is it interesting?
 MC> I'm just a guy who likes to create original music and/or soundscape art
 MC> recordings, if such a term can be appropriately applied.  Some would
 MC> call it "musique concrete".
Does Portishead, Ruby, Tricky, Bj”rk, etc. fit your definition?.. They
don't have much melody nor rhythm, they concentrate on weird sounds.
 MC> Innovating or innovative?  I try to believe that what I do can be
 MC> called innovative.  Aesthetics is another matter.
Aesthetics depends on the person who's hearing it. There are lots of
people that think that the most beautiful voices in the world are
C‚line Dion, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston. I find that the best voices
I know are Dolores O'Riordon (The Cranberries), Janis Joplin, ABBA,
Alanis Morissette, Bj”rk, Magma (w/ Christian Vander, but I don't know
who's singing in that band), Jan Erik Liljestr”m (Anekdoten), Beth
Gibbons (Portishead), Jon Anderson (Yes), Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)
(but in the 70's only), etc.
 MC> I am not offended by the thought of attempting to record good, melodic
 MC> pop music in the future.  I'm just not there yet right now.
Who's talking about pop? What about Jazz, Prog, Opera, Zeuhl Trip-Hop?
Well, pop music is interesting too, but I'd prefer singing on a
Prog/Zeuhl-style song, rather than on a pop song.
 MC> my tapes from back then (I'm 30 now) and frequently use them as source
 MC> material for completely original and very bizarre samples.  When I was
 MC> making the tapes in the first place, I didn't know about digital
 MC> sampling.  I never dreamed that they'd ever be as useful to me as they
If you don't listen to Portishead, you really should. There are other
bands specialized in weird sounds too.
 MC> I really hate hearing songs on the radio which feature obvious samples
 MC> from other familiar sources.
Like, "Ice Ice Baby" (1990) taken from a 1982 Queen song? Actually,
it's difficult, when hearing the first few seconds of the song, to tell
which of the two is actually playing.
 MC> Unfortunately, for listeners who don't know music from the production
 MC> side of things, this really means nothing.  They have a tendency to
 MC> judge music purely by its aesthetic appeal and my work generally does
 MC> not satisfy in that sense.  I love controlled feedback.
I'm judging things only by their aesthetic appeal, but I have weird
aesthetic, that is. Don't be fooled with most people's definition of
"aesthetic".
 MC> What exactly is a CoCo?  I've heard of them a lot but have never seen
 MC> one.
A 6809E-based TRS-80 microcomputer. These have nothing to do with the
older Z80-based monochrome TRS-80's with integrated monitors and
8-inch/5.25-inch diskettes. CoCo's are "Color Computers". You plug them
on the TV. You use audio cassettes and ROM cartridges for storage. You
have 4k or 16k or 64. You may buy a 5.25" diskette drive separately, as
well as a multi-cartridge selector, TV-scanner, joysticks, mice,
printers, and other common peripherals. When Tandy actually abandoned
the project, CoCo's were 128k-512k RAM with double speed clock. Later,
other vendors offered expansions to 1-2 megs RAM, 3.5" h.d. diskettes,
40 meg hard disks, high speed modems, and such modern comfort. At the
beginning the operating system was the Disk BASIC language. Now it is
OS/9, a kind of unix.
MB>> What does your music editor looks like?..
 MC> I edit all of my music directly on my keyboard right now.  I have
 MC> hardware and software for editing music on my Commodore but no
 MC> instructions to get me started with all of it.
Interesting, but you should try PC's someday. ;)
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