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VOS MUSIC:
music is an art that is absolute and true
it cannot lie to its audience
it is pure, universal and around us, all the time.
i convey that universal truth with the music and sound that i create.
all my life i've been surrounded by, wrapped up in, and involved with music. as a child, i grew up in a large family and being the youngest of 9, my older brothers and sisters were always listening to the music of the late 70's and early 80's. my mother would listen to an easy listening radio station when she would clean the house and the smell of pledge always brings to mind the sounds of the carpenters, dionne warwick, the 5th dimension, neil diamond and the like. since then i would fall in love with songs i heard on the radio and i would analyze the sounds, the melody, the harmony, memorize every note and lyric.
in school, i pushed my way into music class with no prior experience or knowledge of how to read, let alone write music. my mother's father who i never met was a violin player and i do remember wanting to play the violin in 4th grade but didn't have the money to rent the damn thing. one of my closest friends in 4th grade who still is to this day was the most talented drummer our school had ever seen. she was obsessed with karen carpenter as a child and she and her brother (who has perfect pitch) were gifted in music. i really just wanted to be with her as much as possible so i crashed band class and basically told our music teacher that i'd play any instrument. the cymbals were my first. then eventually i moved onto other auxiliary percussion instruments like the bass drum, the snare, timpani, xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel, tubular bells, vibraphone and so on...
i became obsessed with getting into that world that the other students were in when they played such complex music by reading those pages of unintelligible alien writing.
presently with computer technology at all of our fingertips and ease and fluidity of musical composition software, how could i not dive right back into the never ending world of music and its creation. now i can afford to have thousands of instruments that sound like the real thing. i not only have a violin, i have an entire orchestra. thank you apple.
i enjoy making soundscapes that are different, interesting and unique and evoke some sort of emotion upon listening. if you enjoy it, then i've done what i've set out to do...
all of the music that i've created so far i've done on a 17" Apple PowerBook G4, with 2GB of memory and a 1.33 gHz PowerPC processor, a M-AUDIO Radium64 controller, a micro KORG synthesizer/vocoder, M-AUDIO FireWire recording interface, an M-AUDIO iControl and one SHURE microphone.Presently, I have just upgrade to a MacPro 2x Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz and currently I am working on projects for winter 2009.
currently inspired by the following:
tracey thorn
swing out sister
desi
Hercules And Love Affair
Giorgio Moroder
Squidbillies
YAZ
ebtg
goldfrapp
air
the aluminum group
the carpenters
sergio mendes & brasil '66
miguel migs
lisa shaw
hird
saint etienne
âme
weekend players
bent
skye
the fifth dimension
dionne warwick
rufus wainwright
swan dive
röyksöpp
daft punk
thievery corporation
onetwo
blue six
kraftwerk
design of boston
new music and projects are currently in progress...
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work is licensed under a
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United States License .
