lo-bat.
by mikrosopht
what are all the different names you use, on the computer and in the real world
Wauter Mannaert, Lo-bat. , Fritz, Harry.
why do each of these names fit you
number one was given to me and suits me fine, a bit hard it seems for the english speaking part of the world. Just try something like 'water'. Lo-bat. comes from 'Low battery' and helps me to not forget my batteries for the gameboy before I play a gig. I dropped the w of low because it's closer to lo-fi that way. Fritz and Harry don't fit me at all, although I have German family... Only the lederhosen are hard to resist.
describe yourself as best you can
Most of the time very enthousiastic about something and even easely obsessed by it. I like the unusual and the unexpected. Pretty social but not exaggerated. I should do more sports. TV is for bored dicks. Somethimes I'm a bored dick. Healthy and fast cooked chinese is just my style, specialy in this combination. People are important, but my computer too (or my gameboys). Don't care about status or looking/beeing fancy. Since I picked up the gameboy I'm suddenly 'hot', wait till they find out I try to make blues on it! Machines are expansions of our body.
where are you (brief history)
Brussels right now and feeling very much ok there. I went to school there for 6 years and I work there now. Before this I lived in a village close to Brussels which was not bad neither, too bad it's a village.
is anyone dependent upon you
Nope
do you depend on anyone
Only emotional ...
please provide a brief history of your creative activities
I started 'drawing' very early and kept doing this. When I was 8, I started with musiclessons which weren't very creative or usefull by that time. I started with classical guitar which was pretty hard and most of the time incredibly boring, I totally sucked at it. This changed when I was about 14 and started playing chords and stuff. First I tried to imitate the Beatles. Soon my guitar rumblings resulted in forming a group called 'insanity'. Soon after we formed this group we bought the instruments necessary to play very loud feedbackpunk which we defined as 'improvisation'.
My guitarcareer died a slow death which was not too bad because I picked up my old love the pencil again and started to study animation movie for 4 years. In the last year I used the gameboycamera for some animations and so I bumped onto Littlesounddj (the musical environment for the gameboy) which I have used ever since. I radicaly went back to music after this discovery and started performing live as soon as I had some loops ready. That was the start of Lo-bat.
do you create more often during day or night
In between is the best time of the day.
what is your favorite season
Summer for sure, standing with your bare feet in nice warm grass is cool.
what is your favorite thing to eat/drink/sleep/dream
I like experimenting with food, specialy with the wok. Just throw everything in there and see what comes out (a good formula for other stuff then cooking too). Belgium beer is the best for sure, same for french wine. My favorite thing to sleep? What do you think? :-) And I like to dream random stories, basically what's dreaming about I guess.
please tell us about your most impressive dream
I don't remember my dreams because I stay too long in bed. But luckily for you I had to get up very early this morning and I remember dreaming about a broken gameboy that had to be fixed. I was in a nice toyshop with some nice guy that could fix it at his attic. What a surprise isn't it ...
what do you think it means
That I'm easely obsessed
are you tired most of the time
Nope, being tired is for wankers who work in the financial tower.
do you like anyone (friend/family/love/hate)
I love my friends, love and family ... they're all important to me.
do you like computers, internet, and technology in general
I repeat: machines are an extension of our body.
do you get music online or at a shop
Online, I put all my music there for free myself so it's like trading.
what is your most common method of transportation
I guess it's tramway after my feet. It suits me fine, always other people there ...
what is the nicest place you've ever been
I care more about the people living there then the place itself but I like traveling in general. More or less all places I've been are special to me in some way.
has anything weird ever happened to you or a friend
I was born the 18th of december 1978 and when I was two I moved to a small street in a normal village. 10 minutes before me another guy in Belgium was born, he moved to the same street two years before me. We're still friends. Life's cool.
have you ever turned into something else
You missed Digimon????
last words
Greets to all my friends who preceded me here on Enooze, and those who'll follow of course ...
Wauter/Lo-bat.
lo-bat. website