Frank Zappa, John Zorn, John Cage, Black Sabbath, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Joe & Mat Maneri, Sun Ra, Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Xenakis, Hendrix, Miles Davis, Ozzy, Megadeth's rust in piece album in particuliar, Ice-T, Curtis Mayfield...
Intelectually: Cornel West, Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Freud, Foucault, and various others... Throw in there William S Burroughs somewhere...
Visually... and from films.. David Lynch, Akira Kurosawa, Stanly Kubrick, Richard Linkleter, Igmar Bergman, Woody Allen, Terry Gilliam, Copela, Lucas, Brother's Quey, Falinie, various animators...
Max Ernst, Klimt, Dali, Basquiet, Andy Warhol, Edvard Munch, Marry Cassate, Degas, Jeff Koons, and others...
and for me the visual effects the musical, as does the intelectual...
Sounds Like
I don't know what I sound like.. Some people say I sound like electronic music on acid, others say I sound like cartoon music, other's say Russian Impressionism (whatever the hell that is, right?) some have said I sound like Philip Glass, some say my work sounds like video game music, other's say it sounds like Pink Elephants. and some think it sounds like a roller coaster.
But basically I'm tyring to invent a new kind of music.. It just happens to be electronic, right? Well.. it's deeper and more complex then that but.. I mean electronic music is in some sense... lets say transendent of many of the issues of non-electronic music.. so I'm out in the ether some place.. trying explore this sort of utopic world.. because the changes that the new technology bring to issues of musical composition are far from understood today.. my electronic music ows more to the classical tradition, I think (People like Cage, Varese, and Xenokis) then it does to the disko / techno / hip hop tradition.. so its like.. has some of what you'd expect from a high brow art form.. perhaps a bit more "art" ish in its aesthetic.. there's a like of cyrbrial challenge it poses... which is a part of its avant guard affinities.. but it doesn't seek to be elietist.. How can you be elietist if Ozzy Osbourne is a chief influince, right?
Basically.. From the start I set out to invent a new kind of music.. I started out playing guitar in like.. 1989, or somewhere around there.. Very into Sabbath and metal.. And darker Harmonies..
Then, in college, I was influinced by Zappa.. was into electronic music as a means of making music that was beyond the technical limitations of humans.. So I wanted to use electronic music to create kind of new 'super metal,' kinda like old school metalica or Megadeth on steriods..
But then what happened is I got into 'the experamentalists.' Which are mostly artists you probably never heard of.. all of whom set out to make radically origonal music..
My music, now.. It's like nothing you've ever heard in you life.. I suppose it's a little bit like.. what Picasso was to painting.. that's what I'm doing with music.. I'm making music that is expressive of multiple view points.. So that there's often more then one way to listen to it.. so that you could listen to it 5 times and hear 5 different compositions.. just based off how you happened to listen to the tracks each time..
It's structurally.. well look.. it's microtonal.. it has a higher tonal fidelity then conventional music.. It's this strange anarchical structure.. That attempts to.. Well its as if all the music you've heard in your life was created by people who's idea of the physical universe was based off a kind of world view of Newton.. And its like my music is talking about quantem mechanics, string theory, chaos thoery, etc.. It's like I'm just operating in a different way, on a different level.. It's like I'm from a whole other planet...
All of this I think makes my music exciting and interesting and worth listening to.. Though I'm not really sure if this really gets to the bottem of it..
In New News I now have a iPod compatable video podcast that you really ought to be subscring to.. If you have iTunes you should do subscribe: here And if you don't.. well then you should check it out here In ether event it's optimized for the video iPod.. And if you don't have one of those you'll at least need Apple's Quicktime plug-in (which you probably already have.. but do u have the latest version?)
Every time I see Hunter I think of you :P It was fun watching "Fear and Loathing" last time I was there, I'm glad you turned me onto such an awesome individual....time to go try and write now, Hug's Lover :D
