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ASK THE ARTIST: @Hypnopad
Hypnopad has consented to participate and take your questions. He starts with a basic overview of his artistic life.
Here’s some highlights in chronological order:
60’s - Learned how to play drums. Was fortunate to have a parent willing to put up with the racket.
70’s - In junior high/high school band I was so bad at reading notation that I was relegated to the triangle and cowbell parts. But when they needed a drum set player I was the guy. Discovered pot and prog/fusion/space music all at about the same time. Things would never be the same. Played in a fusion band (Dregs/Jean Luc Ponty/Genesis/etc) - we played out maybe once. Lots of fun though.
80’s - Discovered electronic drums/midi sequencers/etc. Cofounded a computer based band using an Atari 1040 and a rack of modules and effects. Unfortunately it was terrible top 40 and we played mainly in hotel lounges. I had to have my own computer rig in my hotel room to keep my sanity. I stayed with this compositional workflow (midi drums/keyboard>Atari> modules>cassette/mini disk) until I got a Mac in 2002.
90’s - Played drums in various rock bands - one played for the troops in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm. Eventually stopped playing out due to all the cigarette smoke until the last several years. Continued buying synths/fx/etc including the original Korg Wavedrum which would ending up influencing my present day sound.
00’s - Finally got a Mac and got Ableton Live and Reason when they first came out. Tried a lot of different workflows (sequencing/looping/backing track one man band/mashups) - I learned a lot but none really hit the spot. Attempted electronically busking across the country by bike one summer. Didn’t make it too far due to the weight.
10’s - Got into playing in parades/festivals and remote places using various trailers/strollers/bikes with batteries. Realized the iPad was an incredible musical tool and discovered the AB forum. Lurked for a long time before I started contributing.
Playing one of my earlier (and painful ) rigs at a GLOW festival in the Arizona desert.
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Questions?
Comments
Time spent in Ableton vs IOS in the last month?
Favorite IOS Sequencers?
Favorite FX?
@McD I haven’t even opened up Ableton in quite a while. A lot of my main studio gear is still in storage for safety concerns because of fire threats. So it’s been all iOS lately.
Of course my favorite sequencer is my namesake Mozaic hypno sequence script - made in collaboration with wim. I’m really excited watching the AUv3 piano roll/sequencer battle going on right now between Atom/LK/Midisteps. We all win with this competition.
My favorite effect app used to be Turnado but now there are so many good ones it’s hard to pick one. I like the Eventide stuff as well as the TB fx. The one I’m super excited about right now is the new one from Ice Gear.They also make some of my favorite synths.
Do you have a specific plan ready for a performance event?
Do you view your music like "set pieces" or more like "rigs"?
Or is every piece a Snowflake event?
@McD My performances have varied widely. When I was stationary I definitely had more songs on cue than if I were roaming around. My performances are never the same since they are mostly improvised. Some have been thrown together at the last minute and then never repeated so are kind of like “snowflakes”.
My rigs (mobile/studio/stage) are always constantly changing. They tend to start small then grow larger then shrink and become more condensed as I learn what I like and what works well or not.
Do you put out a tip jar or sell CD's when you perform or is it more of a gift when you play? You have obvious sunk a lot of coin into your rigs (as have most here). Only a handful ever expect to break even
and a few might have careers that paid a few bills.
I usually have a tip jar and sell CDs ( I have two self produced ones) as well as t -shirts. Most venues pay me as well but some of the mobile gigs don’t. I’d still do this if I never got paid. The way I look at it , I play for free - I get paid for all the breaking down/hauling/setup rigamaroll.
One event I used to participate in without getting paid was the All Souls Procession in Tucson. The biggest crowd of the year. A hundred thousand people all dressed up like dead people. Half marching through the city and the other half lining the route. Quite the scene!
Here’s a picture of my bike busking rig. It worked well but the hills were a bitch!
Do you have products available on line? CD Baby? BandCamp? etc.
You should consider a Patreon site to build a community of support.
Nope. I’ve actually been off the financial grid for twenty years now. No bank account at all. So none of that. Maybe one day but it has worked out ok for me so far. I’ve managed to live a lifestyle of low overhead and still enjoy my toys. I actually feel quite lucky.
How can one get off the grid these days?
Do you feel limited in any way?
/new hero found
Good idea... those service fees can kill you. Do you have a PayPal account or Bitcoin wallet?
I would spent summers with my Uncle in Tucson... just me in the backyard playing with his excess
car parts. He was one of the earliest makers of Dune Buggies in the 60's. He let me drive once. It didn't end sell. He also put me in the very rear extension seat of one of his more Mad Max like creations and hit the base of a dune at 30 miles and hour and I could feel the vertibrae in my neck clack like a row of dominoes.
That's the first of many neck events that culminated in a C1-C2 fracture that required a titanium fixture to
insure integrity. Close calls all... good times. Someone up there likes me... for comic relief.
I have xrays around here somewhere of the titanium brace. It gives me a permanent stiff neck. But better than a total break for sure... I'm a lot funnier with complete mobility, I'm sure.
@0tolerance4silence I’ve always had a knack for low overhead living. That and no problem finding under the table work. Well it helps that I think I’ve been a bit successful at manifesting reality for myself most of my life. That and the willingness to throw myself out there and trust in the universe.
Spent over 5 years (not contiguous) touring the country on a bicycle and 15 years living in a converted school bus with a solar powered music studio. I’m now living rent free in a small studio (no plumbing) on a historic ranch in exchange for doing chores.
At times it’s been difficult but it’s been great for my soul. I wouldn’t have it any other way. So to answer your second question- I definitely don’t feel limited.
@McD You spent summers in Tucson with your uncle? What were you being punished for?😂 Most people try to get the hell out of Tucson in the summers.
Nada to those options you mentioned.
My solar powered school bus studio back in the day.
Wow. This explains a lot. You think it was intentional. I just assumed they were shit at parenting.
I appreciated the freedom I was granted but maybe it was abuse to just let a kid roam free. It was hard to find other kids but they had dogs so I had a best friend. We're still in touch (from the other side).
Ken Kesey lives!
"You're either on the bus... or off the bus."
"We're ALL Bozos on this bus." - The Fireside Theater.
The Magic School Bus.
When I was ten my parents shipped me off to New Orleans for the summer to stay with my much older sister. Saw a lot of wild stuff including my first concert- Steppenwolf in a warehouse in the French Quarter.
holy moly techno hippie extreme
@hypnopad great stuff, material for some political campaign,
btw the bike is my choice too, but i use that time to getaway from ios madness
Little envy, tonnes of admiration
I've been thinking in the past few years where to reside and how to pull it off... still stuck at giving up comfort and many material things, but I hope I'll find the courage once I've done my bit towards society.
Thanks for sharing your story
That explains a lot... "Born to be Wild"
Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure
And whatever comes our way
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind
And the feelin' that I'm under
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
Like a true nature's child
We were born, born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die
Born to be wild
Born to be wild
Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure…
(If the shoe fits...)
@0tolerance4silence 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Best of luck on your journey!
@McD That is kinda apropos but I was really into Magic Carpet Ride- especially the middle section.
Magic Carpet Ride
I like to dream, yes, yes
Right between the sound machine
On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Any place it goes is right
Goes far, flies near
To the stars away from here
Well, you don't know what
We can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
Well, you don't know what
We can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away
Last night I hold Aladdin's lamp
So I wished that I could stay
Before the thing could answer me
Well, someone came and took the lamp away
I looked
Around
A lousy candle's all I found
Well, you don't know what
We can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
Well, you don't know what
We can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away
Great to read these stories Hypnopad, very inspiring. I actually spent time in an intentional community in a beautiful secluded valley in the interior of Brazil about 20 years ago, it was mind-blowing and I often dream of getting back to some kind of more hippy lifestyle like this.
What an exciting attitude. Talk about standards!
I love it.
And you must love the VF-1's as much as I do
KP2 and Alesis Air too - mine is the orange synth version.
What's the longest trek you made in the bus? I'm sure it didn't get the best MPG (Miles Per Gallon) so that trip to Yellowstone could cost a pretty penny and then there's all those mid-west cops looking to roust a "free spirit". So, how far did you get from your home town?
Thanks @Gavinski. Glad you got a chance to experience something special outside the norm. I wish everyone could.
I went camping once... a bear opened a slit in the tent and found a forgotten chocolate bar my ex packed. Good times. Did I mention we were asleep in the tent with the bear started trying to locate that smell? Good times. Bears are generally harmless in National Parks as a rule.
I have a Buffalo stand off story for another time.
@rs2000 The only thing I still use from that time would be the Wavedrum and some of the Roland pads. I used to run the Wavedrum through the VF1 to get some fuzzy stuff along with some edgy arps from the ms2000r. It was my industrial period.😉
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