Hi everyone

[Juho L]

Originally Posted by DanielS

Hi,

Io.

(though I cannot listen to jazz for more than 5 minutes)

Jazz is great, but I don't like traditional acoustic jazz. Try out fusion jazz like Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, etc (avoid 80's productions, total horror). I think you might find music you like from there.

Classical music I cannot listen to for more than 10 minutes, though I really enjoy practicing/playing it (is that strange?). Favorites are Chopin and Debussy. I don't consider myself as a piano player.

Somehow I've never found the big composers' pieces enjoyable except few exceptions. On piano section my favourite is Liszt and Satie. On orchestra section Dvorak is very good. Sometimes I don't lsiten to classical at all and sometimes I don't seem to listen to anything else. I have those waves. Hoho.

Is this introduction too long?

Not at all.

The music I make(made) could be considered ambient (I don't enjoy making trance tracks myself). Currently, I have made a setup that is ideal for live playing, and at a touch of a button the setup is DAW ready as well (thanks to Edirol UM880, highly recommended). Since I have ended up to be the only serious listener of my music (people do prefer easy listening), I devote my time experimenting and having fun rather to compose full songs.

Yay! Having fun and being silly from time to time is a good thing. Dissapointingly few do that. Most people think fooling around is just waste of time and efforts that could be used to do serious music, but I don't believe in that due most of my best tracks are based on totally absurd idea. Some tracks start as an silly idea and end up to a half-serious well working track. And in addition to that by fooling around you'll end up making music and using techniques you wouldn't encounter doing the same stuff you always do. That way you learn new tricks that can be used in your serious tracks.

Maybe we should put up a "pro silliness" campaing and help people to learn. Hoho.

I'm done for now.

Greetings,
DanielS

I think that was longest introduction in the history of this forum. ?hih. Welcome to our jolly clique.