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name: Mike Terminal
age: 19
sex: Male
ideal romantic evening: Laptop lit dinner complete with ultra suave 70's style Terminal11 love blast tracker file.
(legal) hobbies: Running around with my MiniDisk in hopes of catching that one moment where sound capture is crucial. Like the sound of hip hop kids hanging out on the street near Jack in the Box freestyling in a way that will never make sense and/or sound good.
favourite g'n'r
song: Ouch. That question hurts.
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yr music is entirely excitable and quick to switch modes and gears, which seems to stay in step with our modern worlds lack of attention, do you set out to end up with tracks that morph as frequently as they do?
My lack of attention span contributes to this 24/7. I have a problem with things repeating more than 3 times.
what influence does straight up noise have on your approach to composing?
Straight up noise has been a giant factor in my past. Before i knew how to sequence my thoughts into tracks, noise was all i had to work with. Primarily before i got a computer. Ive got old tapes of my noise sessions that are located somewhere within the depths of my room.
what/who has had the biggest influence on yr output?
The biggest influence on my output is life. The fact that i can use recorded bits from experiences ive had in and mix it in to the point where i am the only one that understands what all the combined layers are. I dont see them all as just sampled sounds but more or less, pieces of my life.
how many times have you thrown up in the past 24 hours? the past 48 hours?
Lets not talk about the past. I plan to throw up 5 times in the next week.
who are phthalo how did you hook up with them?
Phthalo is the record label. Phthalocyanine is the artist. I sent my first demo out after reading the description of Phthalo in his own words. After he recieved the demo, he told to me to send more. That was Speed Modified. Check out Phthalocyanines 25 tracks fer 1 track on Planet-Mu. That cd invades my personal space. I feel completely violated after listening to his music and i love it.
how long have you been composing?
Ive been experimenting since 1998 but would consider my first "decent" track to be in October of 2000. Everything from 1999 on has been training for me to make what i do now.
in terms of people watching how would you rate yourself:
a: a potatoe, b: a cucumber, c: a watermelon, or d: all of the above
B) cucumber. straight up.
what type of music, if any, would you be making if computers were never invented?
Ive got no musical experience, so id probably do what ive been doing since junior high. That would be gathering all the compulsive thrift store electronics that i dont use, putting them in the middle of my room along with anything else not so useful and beating the shit out of them with tv static blazing and the record player cranking out Barry White.
do you play live sets? if not do you plan to? how different would yr live material be compared to the stuff on yr cd?
I haven't played a live set yet but i plan to in the near future. Ive mainly got no clue how to organize one. I know people use reaktor for live sets and i got a demo of it once. Its like playing connect the dots with thousands of things that wont produce sound for me. I just like hooking buttons and switches together that have no sound source to them. I figure if i do live sets, ill just make a new album every time i go on tour and play the unheard trax there as well as old ones. Ill sell that album as a tour exclusive. Something like that. If you have any suggestions feel free to email me with explicit instructions on how to hook midi machines up to my toaster so i can heat up pop tarts while performing.
if you could re-score any film ever made with yr music what film would you chose and why?
Gummo. Self explanatory. If you've seen Gummo, you would understand why i'd give anything to work with Harmony Korine.
what does yr studio set up include? what hard/soft ware do you recommend?
Soft:
Modplug Tracker w/ VST
Sound Forge
Audio Mulch
Hard:
Mc-303
Korg Electribe sampler
Sp-202
Electrix - Filter Queen, Multi-fx, Vocoder
Turntable
Reccomendations- Audio Mulch! Toss yr own VST plugins in and this thing will bust splatterfuck noise all over the walls. Mod Plug is my main source for everything. Without modplug i would still be destroying random objects in my room then questioning why later.
where were you when you first heard the new kids on the block had split up?
Sitting in my room performing the daily ritual of praying to whatever god would make the new kids on the block split up.
as computers help producers chop music into smaller and smaller bits, what do you see as a possible backlash of this (of microcomposing / super processing)?
The only backlash i could see coming of it would be the possibility of artists using damaging frequencies. I came to the realization of that when i had to take a month rest from making music w/ headphones on because everytime i covered my ears i felt like my head was gonna explode. Not that i have a problem with exploding heads, by all means, pain should be just as much a part as pleasure in music. That, and all the new music will sound like rabid fuckfrenzied crickets.
in yr opinion, will yr music most likely catch on with poets , murders, poetic murders or poetic murderers of murderous poets who murder poetry?
As long as the poet, poetic murderer, or murderer of murderous poets who murder poetry had a.d.d. and talked too fast to comprehend.
how long will it take for pop chart music to be affected by what you do?
If my grandchildrens grandchildren followed in my footsteps they would probably be shit out of luck as well.
in the unlikely scenario that you are asked to assassinate the leader of a small latin american military dictatorship, what would your initial response most likely be?
Do i get fries with that?
what sort of audience are you hoping to reach?
Anybody that will listen and consider what they hear to be music.
hot dogs are made of mostly crap but taste good, why?
Because we all have a secret infatuation with things that taste terrible. Point in case. Whenever something tastes bad we usually offer some to another person. They will taste it and agree.
with the amount of processing that goes into yr tracks, how do you know when to stop?
Mainly i know when to stop when the track has lost its rush. When the momentum of the track has reached the fullest and starts to wind down, if i don't feel i can come back with a stronger momentum, i usually end it.
a boulder sized rock has just destroyed the earths oxygen supply, who do you blame?
The bastards.
are you too modest to admitt yr music is art?
Well. I would consider this music to be my purest form of expression. Out of any outlets i have, my music is most affected by mood, location, lighting, daily experiences, etc. This to me, is a form of art.
who are yr favourite uk trance djs?
rrrrr. (dj rrrrr?)
at what point should a listener to yr music give up if they dont "get it"?
They should give up quickly. The musics not getting any easier on the ears as time goes by, so if its hard to comprehend now, the future will be complete unfiltered hell for this person. But, in the case that someone is persistent enough to want to get it, then by all means, listen away.
in their heyday, van halen were pretty cool, in yr opinion who are/is their electronic music equivilant?
DRX of Bodenstandig 2000. For obvious reasons.
what does the term "structure" mean to a composer such as yrself?
Consistancy. When my track is consistent and follows a beat more than just letting all hell loose and hearing the sounds destroy each other. My new stuff has more structure. Chock full of breakbeat and such.
what mainstream artist would you be most interested in remixing?
Fiona Apple. Id like to work her vocals over.
did you ever skip school just to look cool to older kids?
I had a full moustache when i was 5, so i was always placed in the "older kids" catagory.
who should buy yr records?
Roy Orbison. But he's dead. Well. He should look down and realize that someone has made a tribute to him. Rest in Peace Roy. I dont think he would have minded me snatching vocal samples.
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