Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been...
I should probably give some sort of explanation -- a raison d'etre, if you will -- for this Journal. You may be viewing this through my website (in which case you could have some rough idea about what's going on here), or alternately through some internal Livejournal link. If the latter, you're now even more thoroughly befuddled...
Breathe deeply, don't panic.
Here's the real: M3ch is the pseudonym I use for my music "project". This journal is here to document & promote the progress of M3ch.
See? Pretty simple after all, eh...?
Some basics, then. I'm going to attempt to keep this focused. However, I would imagine you're going to get quite a bit of rambling occasionally, as M3ch=music and M3ch=me tend to blur into each other. I think of this as a feature, rather than a bug. Otherwise, I may bore you to tears with gear talk and other technical data. You'll probably see me post progress reports, general musings, and even the occasional rant if this goes the way I want it to.
In regard to M3ch, you'll be getting to know more and more as I trickle it out (not to mention posting tracks). I've been playing music for years now, and it's gradually gotten to the point where I can put down some of the noises in my head without having to rely on others to help realize them, unless I so desire.
Technology really is a great enabler that way (okay, so I'm a g33k). And given that sort of bent at the outset, you could safely say that M3ch is Electronica. What sort of Electronica you'd care to pigeonhole it into after that (be it IDM, EBM, Techno, Ambient, etc...), I'm not really certain yet. It should be fun finding out, though.
On an endnote for the evening, I should probably explain the page title: g0 p0p! This was inspired by the Tones on Tail album of similar name, and, while equally tongue-in-cheek, it's as much a kick in the pants to myself as a statement on my project. If you haven't already figured it out, I've got a tendency to overthink things. I can produce music as pseudo-intellectual and academic as the best of 'em, and if I'm not paying attention I could very well disappear up my own arse, producing something that's entirely inaccessible.
I chose that statement for a Journal title just so it would give me an occasional reminder that music is for the listener as well as the composer. I want the stuff I produce to push boundaries between the experimental and mainstream, but I can't lose sight that the finished product has to mean as much to the audience as it does to me.
Pop music, in its best and most ideal form, evokes a perfect reaction. Clever yet not condescending, it speaks to the listener while never speaking down to them. It causes them to feel something new, which they can then take away with the music -- a melody, a rhythm, an infectious hook that just won't get out of your head. One strolls down the street, lost and humming softly...
Not a bad thing to which one might aspire, IMNSHO.
Breathe deeply, don't panic.
Here's the real: M3ch is the pseudonym I use for my music "project". This journal is here to document & promote the progress of M3ch.
See? Pretty simple after all, eh...?
Some basics, then. I'm going to attempt to keep this focused. However, I would imagine you're going to get quite a bit of rambling occasionally, as M3ch=music and M3ch=me tend to blur into each other. I think of this as a feature, rather than a bug. Otherwise, I may bore you to tears with gear talk and other technical data. You'll probably see me post progress reports, general musings, and even the occasional rant if this goes the way I want it to.
In regard to M3ch, you'll be getting to know more and more as I trickle it out (not to mention posting tracks). I've been playing music for years now, and it's gradually gotten to the point where I can put down some of the noises in my head without having to rely on others to help realize them, unless I so desire.
Technology really is a great enabler that way (okay, so I'm a g33k). And given that sort of bent at the outset, you could safely say that M3ch is Electronica. What sort of Electronica you'd care to pigeonhole it into after that (be it IDM, EBM, Techno, Ambient, etc...), I'm not really certain yet. It should be fun finding out, though.
On an endnote for the evening, I should probably explain the page title: g0 p0p! This was inspired by the Tones on Tail album of similar name, and, while equally tongue-in-cheek, it's as much a kick in the pants to myself as a statement on my project. If you haven't already figured it out, I've got a tendency to overthink things. I can produce music as pseudo-intellectual and academic as the best of 'em, and if I'm not paying attention I could very well disappear up my own arse, producing something that's entirely inaccessible.
I chose that statement for a Journal title just so it would give me an occasional reminder that music is for the listener as well as the composer. I want the stuff I produce to push boundaries between the experimental and mainstream, but I can't lose sight that the finished product has to mean as much to the audience as it does to me.
Pop music, in its best and most ideal form, evokes a perfect reaction. Clever yet not condescending, it speaks to the listener while never speaking down to them. It causes them to feel something new, which they can then take away with the music -- a melody, a rhythm, an infectious hook that just won't get out of your head. One strolls down the street, lost and humming softly...
Not a bad thing to which one might aspire, IMNSHO.