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jothenull
by mikrosopht
So what are all the aliases have you composed under in the past?
Shit I can't remember them all... The only ones I took somewhat seriously were Jothe Null, Daedbolt, and Robot Man.
which was your favorite to work with? or did you have a favorite? I dropped my toast... I picked it up
I'm not totally sure... Each one seemed to serve a distinct purpose for me. Jothe Null was like my drawing board, my R&D department; open-ended, freeform and experimental. The Daedbolt material was much more rigid and premeditated; I disciplined myself a bit. Robot Man is/was just me goofing around. Not a lot of effort goes into Robot Man, but I always had a blast with it. Can i have some toast?
sure! *hands spats a slice* :8']/ so you like making 'tasteless crap rock' now? I could here some of that in robotman tracks but why the turn from technology? to laugh? shit I meant I could hear some rock influences, it was not crap in Robotman. damn me f00lish mouth!
Its afunny story... I sold all of my equipment (hardwares) so I could buy an Apple G4. The mother board went bad on my old PC, and all the software I had used previously to make music isn't available for the Mac platform. I'm up shit's creek, but I guess thats the price of progress. :P I have an acoustic and an electric guitar, some fx units, and a SP-202. I really have no choice but to give up rok and just go for rock. That sounds stupid.
no not stupid but its quite a price to pay for taking a jump in yer compy hardware standardz! do you plan on getting nu gear to make sum more 'rok'? :] what was it that you used to use to write your electrotoonz?
I want to get one of those rackmount vocoders, and set up a simple midi interface on my new machine. I could maybe do some more Robot Man stuff in a more flexible environment. I was using a soft-vocoder in the past, as well as some soft-synths, soft-sequencers, and those Korg Electribe units. I want to do the new stuff with just a vocoder, acoustic guitar, and a Casio keyboard. I think it would sound better that way. Maybe a kazoo as well.
have you sent any of your material to any record labels or are you planning on putting anything out? Youd make a killing wit tracks like Robot Rok Machine and King of Rok... (my 2 fav ;)
Nah, yo! Muthafuckaz be sendin shit out an getting signed an shit. Befo they knowin it, BAM! Muthafuckin label boofed their shit! Fer real... I'm not really anxious to release anything for two reasons. I don't have the time nor the balls to promote my music. And, I don't make music to make money. I do it to make myself happy. I'm content with just putting my stuff on the Net for free. Oh, and fuck the RIAA while we're at it ;)
hahahahahahahahah I hear you on why you write, to make yourself feel better, but the way to make that happen more often is to have someone backing your creative effort with $ (since this is the case for you and me ;)... not all labels are evil :] With the experince you have and the variety of work you're able to put out Im sure you could get signed to an outstanding label... and yeah the RIAA can suk eet. So you sound fairly content with your status as an artist right now eh? what are you up to professionally
Uh, jeez... I work for the IT dept. @ my school. It's the kind of place where all the dumb people are at the top of the ladder, and the smart and talented ones are at the bottom taking all the balogna. You know what they say: "the shit floats to the top", hehe. I'm hoping to become a journalist... manufacture some dissent. Maybe overthrow a government one day. Go to outer space and just live off the land. Hmm, Dunkin Donuts is hiring... :)
the make an evil coolada dont they?
Shit yeah, boss!
whats your favorite flavor?
Unflavored for me, thanks. Yep. I'm just an old windbag!
how old are you and how long have you been composing? how did it start?
I'm 20 years old now. I started messing around with digital music when I was about 12 or 13. I discovered the MS Pocket Recorder program on my family's old Win 3.1 machine. I started hammering out these horribly crude Skinny Puppy remixes that I would do on it. I began recording source material my house, making loops, fucking stuff up, and compiling these cacaphonic noisescape. Thats pretty much it. I went on with it from there. source material *around * my house
now you like to write noize as well, with crayon drawings to complement them? or were those seperate interests?
I draw with crayons in my dreams, where I also have gay sex with my coworkers(?). I do live noise periodically, but not too much with the computer. Playing with knobs in real time, hearing the sound change as you fiddle, is still more fun than sitting in front of an audio editor. There is a move now towards software that hadles real time "tweakage" (ie: Reaktor), but its just not quite there yet. I don't make any of that pussy noise either!
is pussy noise like a quief or what?
Yeah, or them cornyass feedback whines that go nowhere: Kling klang - ffffeee - kling - ffffeee - klung - ffffeeoooooooouuuuuuuu. Thats bullshit, yo. Real noise is like: bzzzeeooouuwaaaaaacrcrcrcrcrcrczoooommmmb beeeeoowwwwwwfbfffbfbfbfbfbfbeeeefbfbfbfbfbfee eeefbfbfbfbfbfbguuuuiiioooobbbzzzzzazazazazaz ploomijmkdhjdskfhfsdlkjasldf... * Real raw.
noizecore! hehe nice! or not nice, it can be quite unsettling which is an interesting effect I personally enjoy listening to the white noise on my computer ya know? turn the master volume way up and listen to the documents minimize and maximize and shtuff.. really kewl and fun fun
That is pretty def. I had a fucked up sound card at one time that amplified those signals.
wut card is that? sounds kewlio! have you ever used any system sounds on tunes?
The card was a SB64 Gold that had been manhandled too many times. As for the system sounds, I felt dirty whenever I considered it. I did use some sounds in a scratch tape I made for a harsh-noise performance.
what kind of gigs have you played?
Mostly local ones... high schools and coffehouses. There is not much of a scene here (Union County, NJ) for experimental music so a lot of my stuff is kinda ill received. But I guess when people come expecting folk and alternative, and you give them harsh-noise, theres bound to be some friction ha ha :)
yeah I could see that happening hahaha but it Is great you have the balls to do it! where do you see you and your music in 10 years?
There's a lot of experimental musicians around here, like good 'ole Pro(xy), but no one has a live setup. No one knows we exist. Oh well. In ten years I will be wishing I had a vocoder and a groovebox but aw I can't afford them or I should save the money and I will be reading lots of books and doing nothing with all that I've learned. It'll be just like today, except I'll have a spaceship.
well shit. heh so you mention my homeslice Pro(xy)chop, who all do you hear doing their experimental part in music today?
Around my area or in the general "big leagues"?
everywhere you wish to tell of ;]
Experimetnors, There are so many out there. I want to kiss them.
Bruce Haack was quite good, But he died some years ago. I love his music.
kewl Ill have to look him up and embed a link ;] I have to go walk my mouse now. One last questione: what should the enooze readers remember from all of this? Is there any redeaming quality to this, a moral to the story?
Hmmm... Eat yer greens? Robot love is a dangerous game. Stay away from robots.
thanks so much for the interview! keep on the gigarok ;8']/
werd to your diode! thanks for intrviwing me. i go run around now :)