My musical influences and so much more | 5,000 Subscriber Q&A
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- Recently we've hit 5,000 subscribers on my channel and I thought I'd mark the milestone with a Q&A video. In this video I answer your questions! If you ever wondered what my musical influences are or how I prioritize between all my different interests, this video is for you. And yes I even answer some personal questions.
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Channels and musicians I mentioned:
Melanchoholics melanchoholics.bandcamp.com/
Hainbach / @hainbach
Jogging House / @jogginghouse
Moritz Klein / @moritzklein0
Molten Music Tech / @moltenmusictech
Modular in a week / kristian blåsol
0:00 Intro
0:41 My approaches to music, photography and painting.
3:00 How I ended up in San Sebastián
4:50 Finding the time and energy for creativity
7:28 How to support me on bandcamp
8:11 Any photo vids coming up?
9:59 Have my interests changed?
11:49 How much music theory I use
14:23 My musical and sonic influences
18:10 A walkthrough of my modules and how I use them?
18:39 Subscriber awards?
19:13 SciFi I'm reading/watching atm
20:29 Psychedelic substances?
20.37 Am I a religious/spiritual person?
21:43 Making videos about synth electronics DIY
23:08 Outro
24:52 Bloopers
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My own, which I make under the name Polarcoaster.
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Oh, and let me know if it's getting too eerie 🙃
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Those rain sounds could probably work as a layer in one of your ambient tracks...
I definitely used some of them in my tracks but it was actually a dark wave track from ages ago. Maybe I should try something ambient with it too!
Congrats on the Subs, keep going, I find the content very interesting - thank you.
Thank you Lance! I’m glad you enjoy what I do 😀
Nice to see some Jogging House appreciation, I've been on a Siel Records trip recently, especially The Lifted Index and KMRU, masterful stuff.
Jogging House is so good! I’ve had Chants and be spinning every day recently. Just got a couple more Hainbach Seil releases the other day and I will check out The Lifted Index and KMRU next time I order something! Really nice releases on Seil for sure!
good taste in music love Jogging house and Hainbach
They’re both great, I enjoy their music a lot!
I really loved this! With my thanks!😊
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Roy! 😀
Hey Lilly, just subbed today after watching some of your box builds, now going through your back catalogue xD We have very similar interests and tastes, looking forward to watching more!
Thank you for subscribing, much appreciated 😀 new videos are in the works now, finally!
Congrats to 5000 subs
Love your channel
Aw, thank you Danilo! ☺️
"I can't stand the rain, against my window" ... congrats!
Thank you so much! 😀 and you made it to the end 🙌
Blade Runner simply is a masterpiece. Hans Zimmer's Dune is a masterpiece as well, just like the soundtrack to the old version of Dune, made by Toto.
Maybe all those SF story writers are wrong and we will be living on a green planet in some decades? (Yeah, I know ...)
More of theose photos from the past next time? ^^
Ich hätte nie gedacht, dass du mal ein Punk warst. So kann man sich irren. Übrigens ist deine "ruhige Art" sehr ansprechend.
Right on, congrats 🤘🏽. Happy for you! 5:18 , oh I know this all too well! 😂
Thank you so much! Totally missed your comment somehow. Sorry about that!
Congrats to 5000 subs 🥰
Thank you so much! ☺️
Thank you for the shoutout!
Oh, but of course! I enjoy your music so much!
Hi Lilly, The Q n A questioners asked the BIGGEST question I wanted to ask you: "How do you manage and prioritize so many various types of creative projects". Great to hear your answers! Looks like you're well on your way to 10K subs already!
Dealing with all those creative projects is like herding cats 😅 Somehow stuff gets done, but never as fast as I would like and some things always have to wait. I always get there in the end though! Glad you enjoyed the video! And yeah, over 6K already, amazing how fast that went! I’m almost a bit glad that it slowed down a bit again, because I have things planned for 10K subs that aren’t quite ready yet 😅
I'd be up in the ceiling there putting in sound proofing pads!!! That was loud!!! Really good video, Lilly!! It'll be great to see more of your videos, especially the photography ones when you get around to doing them. I should get back out with my cameras and get some more pics. I've had a roll of Ultramax in my Minolta Hi-Matic for the last month and haven't gone out to shoot it!! In that time, I've gotten two lenses for my 5Xi (Minolta), a 100--300mm zoom and a 50 mm f1.7, which turned up today. So, I'll have to get around to using them. One good thing with the hiatus, though, is my film stocks are slowly creeping back up. Oh, and congrats on 5000!!! Now for 10K, then 20K...😊
And that was with at least some sound dampening! Usually I find it quite relaxing, but in a storm it's hard to hear yourself talk under the roof! I'm looking forward to having the darkroom sorted out as well so that I can get out and explore a bit with my camera as well. I haven't really used the opportunity to look around much yet, because I don't want to end up with tons of rolls to develop. And new lenses sound nice! That's always cool! I have a new lens as well but it's for filming only and a duplicate of a lens I had already but that had the wrong mount for my speed booster!
Thank you for the Congratulations! Appreciated! 10K isn't far off now, I believe. Just a matter of time!
Great video Lilly, really enjoyed the questions and your answers. Thanks for answering my question and I think now that I understand some of the scope of music theory (akin to having looked at the table of contents of a book) I realise I need to learn it, but your overall philosophy on this resonates with me for sure. Thanks again for sharing and congrats again on the 5k... now 6.2k and climbing :)
Thank you again! I think learning theory is definitely worthwhile, it helps to know the rules so that you can break them in creative ways. You don’t need all of it though. Most of contemporary music only uses a fraction of that massive book and does just fine with that 😀 Scale modes and chord modes on modern sequencers make these things a lot easier too. Sometimes it feels like playing the game on easy mode though and they don’t really prepare you for the tough cases. I recently wrote a track where I accidentally changed from one key into another key that was really far away - sequencer lost the key setting halfway through writing it and I ended up with two sections that just would not fit together and I didn’t get why. It kept falling apart, took me ages to figure it out, but when I got it to work I was quite proud of myself. Without theory I never would have managed to fix that one because I wouldn’t even have understood what the problem was. And I certainly would have ended up with a much less interesting track if my sequencer hadn’t tricked me. I kept the key change in the end. If I remember correctly I just snuck another change between those two sections to soften the blow. For situations like those theory is invaluable!
@@LillySchwartz Ha, yes using the scale modes on sequencers (like my MPC One) definitely feels like 'easy mode' or after typing in a cheat code. But it has unlocked some of the basics for me; before I could hear what worked together, but now I am starting to understand how they do and that means far less trial and error!
I did a similar thing once where I had two parts of a track in different keys (I think) but it wasn't worth salvaging and so I gave up. If it was better then for sure it might be a good exercise and your solution sounds great!
I usually see my ideas through to the end, even if it doesn’t quite work. There is this phase in the middle of writing a track when it all sounds meh. Especially when it’s not mixed properly. I’d delete every trick if I didn’t push through the meh phase.
YOU ARE F***ing AWESOME!!!!
😀 thanks James!
This was excellent. I love your taste in music.
Congratulations on 5k. Onward and upward.
Greetings from South Africa.
Edit: Echo and the Bunnymen fan
Thanks Shane! Echo and the Bunnymen are awesome. I kinda re-kindled my love for their stuff recently, been listening to them a lot, that’s why they sit in the white thing, it’s right next to the record player for easy access!
@@LillySchwartz you're very talented. Keep being creative. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and music.
Thank you so much!
Congratulations Bayonetta!!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳
love this q&a great to know that you had punk, goth, and post-punk roots and love ambient.
I’m glad you enjoyed it! I definitely love ambient, most of the music I write falls into that genre. I went from post-punk and goth + SciFi soundtracks straight into dark ambient with my tastes and that’s where I stayed a long time. I still fall back into making it too and the next Polarcoaster album will be dark ambient again! I do enjoy the lighter side of it too though. There are a lot more artists I could have mentioned, The Caretaker for example, Bohren & der Club of Gore, Lustmord or the ambient classics, Brian Eno etc, but then I can talk about music for hours and most people just roll their eyes at me when I get going 😂 I thought I better keep it snappy since I’m far more obsessed with music than most people 😅
Absolutely love Bohren. Found your channel because I just got the Mamiya Super 23. I also make music with a lot of randomization, and my channel has a lot of my polymetric ambient music on it. Cool channel
Glückwunsch zu 6,2K Subscribers und Danke für die Antwort, kann ich sehr gut nachvollziehen... 😉😁🥳🥳🙌🙌 Hab Dich eh abonniert und freu mich einfach, wenn's neuen Content gibt... 😉👍
Hah, vielen Dank! Kommt auf jeden Fall! Wir haben gerade auch beschlossen mal Platz für den Jobo zu machen und dann wird’s schon wieder mit den Fotografie Videos!
Thank you for answering my question. Sorry if it was a bit boring (and out of date...).
And that rain storm... bad for recording a video perhaps but great background for music.
Not boring, definitely not! I actually love that I get to hear the rain up here, very relaxing. Just in a storm it tends to drown out everything else 😅
i was curious why i was recommended your channel then i saw the tattoo... huge neubauten fan.. i could never bring myself to tattoos or marking my body but if i did it would be the 1/2 Mensch logo or a sleeve of giger patterns..
Now that would be wild if the YT algorithm could be so specific! I mean, I only mention them once in the video and there is one comment where they are mentioned too I believe. It wouldn’t surprise me though if the recommendation was really motivated by that.
I only have one tattoo so I can relate to your hesitation. I walked around with the idea for 6 years before I went through with it and there is a story to go with it, a series of coincidences while I was pondering the tattoo that finally convinced me to do it. I used to live in Brighton and one day I cross the street listening to Nick Cave and I think to myself, that guy over there looks like Nick Cave with a moustache! I checked online later and yes, he lived there 😂 A few nights later I watched Wings of Desire for the first time. Colour me surprised when Nick Cave appears in there. And who’s there on stage too playing guitar? Blixa. And that kind of thing kept happening until I said, alright alright, I get the tattoo! When the universe is shouting at you very loudly, it’s better to listen! I mean, the Neubauten totally changed the way I think about music, it makes so much sense to have the 1/2 Mensch logo reminding me every day that everything can be music, even power tools. I have pondered other tattoos over the years but it’s the only one that stuck.
@@LillySchwartz maybe "they" are trying to hook us up? :P
it might be also i was looking for eurorack newbie info.. idk.... anyway keep the vids coming..
I love Joy Division music
Me too! Their music has been such a big part of my life for a very long time!
Listen to Zheanna Erose music. She`s so cool!
Hi Lilly . I advice you to make ASMR . really your voice very soft fluffy . Many 1000's follower will get.
😂 most of my videos could be tagged “accidental ASMR” 😅
I like the tattoo.
If it's raining its
I think you clicked send too early 😅
The recorder, you look like you played something in the classical style, you give off flautist vibes, bach variation, I don't know.
Yeah well, I was never any good at the classical stuff and it didn’t really speak to me either. If I had learned a more useful instrument perhaps …
@@LillySchwartz ok
Pls what's the music on 09:14?
That's my track Polarcoaster - Who killed Captain Kirk? Not out yet, but it will be fairly soon. If you want to hear more of the track already you can check out my video Risk Group photography. The little clip at 9:14 is from that video.
Why have you decided not to use streaming sites for your work, or are you planning to and just haven't released on them yet? Personally, I thought I should be the change I wish to see and not support these rather avaricious streaming platforms through my use, but after a while of indecisiveness, I thought that it's less about the streams for me and more about how many people I can connect with through music, so I got a distributor to be published on all of the main streaming platforms. However I still feel like I compromised some principle about music publishing in the digital age I had, even if it wasn't the most thought out and most likely too idealized.
Streaming just doesn’t make any financial sense. I calculated that I’d need 75,000 streams to match 30 sales on bandcamp. That alone pretty much says everything. Since I mainly make experimental music, my stuff simply doesn’t have the mass appeal that would get me those kind of numbers. Recently someone I know who makes similarly experimental music showed me their earnings on Spotify for half a year and it was literally 1$. Minus fees! And of course I wouldn’t particularly enjoy being short changed like that either. It’s a business model that I find pretty toxic for the music industry and everyone earns except the musicians. Because of that I don’t use Spotify at all and on UA-cam it makes much more sense to make video content. People use Spotify as a promotional tool because they can target playlists etc, but for albums it doesn’t make any sense, which is why so many people have practically stopped making albums and only release singles on there. Since I already do the UA-cam thing I get plenty of eyes on my music and in the end streaming availability only discourages people from buying on bandcamp. I will probably do some single releases on Spotify at some point but the album is unlikely to go on there anytime soon. Maybe if my audience grows it could make sense at some point, but right now it would be counterproductive. I don’t listen through streaming either, I just use UA-cam to find new music and whenever I find something I like, I buy the vinyl or on bandcamp. How were your experiences with streaming for you? Does it work for what you do?
@@LillySchwartz Thank you kindly for the response. As you've completed an album, that makes compete sense. Plus, having a business model like Spotify's where the more people listen to music the less the company makes via increased royalty obligations means they'll probably just get even worse with artist payment.
I've submitted my first single to a distributor a few days ago and am waiting for them to process it, so unfortunately I have little to report thus far. My genre is perhaps even more niche than yours (drum and bass) so I have zero finacial gain expectations, just the desire to share, hence the decision to stream.
I really admire your position on streaming, and your diligence with videos to share with us your music and process.
Oh d’n’b is niche these days? It was huge when I first started listening to it. I’ve just watched a long video on music promotion and it was quite the depressing picture I got from algorithmic music promotion. I will try it with singles though, just to see whether that actually works. Albums really don’t make sense on Spotify.
I’m glad you find the videos engaging. They take a lot of time to make but I have a lot of fun making them, so that’s alright.
I still have video and film waiting to get worked on from 2019 🤣
Hah! I know that feeling 😂 2020 for me, but well, close enough! I’ll get to it eventually! Husband said yesterday he’ll make space for the jobo so that I can work, so it won’t be too long perhaps? By the way, I hope I didn’t mangle your name too much, my pronunciation definitely needs work 😅
Sounded good to me ... maybe need more of a Soviet accent.
Yay! I was worried. My Russian is woefully neglected at this point. Too much other stuff to do 🙃 my mum speaks with a southern accent of course because she grew up in Ukraine. All I can manage is reading with a dictionary sadly. It’s not nothing, but it’s less than I’d like. But well, I’ll get there at some point, hopefully.
Want to read try read more its very difficult for me. But guess better than nothing. Maybe I'll start with a few children books.
I have all my dad’s old SciFi books, but they’re a tad too complicated for me as well. I read the first book of David Eddings Belgariad Saga in the Russian translation a few years ago and that was quite fun. A little tedious perhaps with the dictionary, but I struggled through it in the end. My dad learned by reading all that SciFi stuff with a dictionary! He just wanted to read the stories and could only get them in Russian.
Einstürzende Neubauten ❤
Hah, totally spoilered it, didn't I? 😂 👏 🖤
@@LillySchwartz yes, but I got me interested.
@@effiksmusic perfect, then the picture worked exactly as intended! There are loads more influences too. This one doesn't even need much explanation, it's like an undercurrent that runs through everything.
Yeah... yeah... that comment about the music being AWFUL... I've got some of those too. :)
Ah, we’re all stricken by those I think 🤔 Taste in music is highly subjective, so I really don’t care whether people don’t like it. Bound to happen! If they don’t enjoy it then they don’t have to watch my channel. As simple as that 🤷♀️
Hiiiii lizzzzzzzzzzzy
only when I'm playing with a fuzzzzzzzz pedal 😂
Neuromancer...never read it but, I heard thats where the term "cyber sex" came from, excuse that ...I saw it in a museum. I have one of those Korg Volcas, I think thats what its called, I bought it and never used it, its somewhere in the box. What about stockhausen, do you like his music?
I’m surprised your comment made it past the YT word filter 😂
And I just got a Volca Modular myself and already used it for some new music. Fun little synth. I do enjoy Stockhausen although I don’t listen to it very frequently.
@@LillySchwartz oh ok
Cool tattoo, cool band. I like your channel because of the guitar you build and other diy- stuff. I have also diy stuff on my chsnnel. But am more far away from 1000 than you to 100.000 depend on the growing .
I'm glad you like my channel! I really enjoy the DIY stuff, that's what I really love doing and I'm glad it resonates. I just compared our growth curves on Social blade and you should be at 1K faster than I'll be at 100K! And that curve Blade projects for my channel is overly optimistic anyway 😆 It has me at 800K in 5 years? Haha, that's so unlikely! By the way, you could get there even faster if you show your face! Doing YT without your face is playing the game on hard mode. It's so much harder to get people to subscribe without showing your face!
@@LillySchwartz hey Lilly, thank you for your answer and the analysis. The social blade seems too far away at the moment. I am just at the beginning. It would be cool to have something like an Action-Cam and putting voice overs in different languages. Sometimes it is not easy trying new stuff which needs my full attention and concentrate on talking. A good idea with the face. But I can't show it. Quickwash is my alter ego like Loki or Joker. During my work I am different and I am afraid some people are too stupid to handle it. And I am afriad of gaslighting. There are too many hints where I am living and with the face it would be much easier. Like with the beer case as a dog basket on the bike. I mean I am cycling around 40km here. The people who see me have just to Look for a Heineken beer case as a dog basket and I am done . But thank you. I wish you a good week :-)
Well, I get it, I also avoid having my location spotted. But then success on UA-cam is difficult enough without setting more hurdles for yourself. The question really is, would anyone you’re worried about actually care? People really have their own lives to worry about, they relatively narcissistically ignore everything and everyone around them. In my case I found that everyone was actually quite supportive. And I don’t see any controversial stuff on your channel either? It’s weird showing yourself on UA-cam, I know, but you get used to it surprisingly quickly. And my philosophy was always to just be myself. If anyone has a problem with that then that’s their problem, not mine. Otherwise I wouldn’t have been walking around with a Mohawk in a place where that always attracted the wrong kind of attention. By the way, if you’re worried about being spotted because of your floof box, you could spray paint that off camera. There are also other ways of making it harder to spot you if that’s your main worry. I just never show the outside of the house and don’t take pictures in the immediate vicinity. So far no problems with that and I’ve been doing this for quite a while already.
@@LillySchwartz you are right. Perhaps I can overcome my concerns
Good luck with it! 😀
Lustmord!
So good! 🖤
Is this this mohawk video i want to see it never mind watched to yhe the end cute what do you think lol 10k almost there
You have a linhof?
Nope, it’s a Speed Graphic! 😀
@@LillySchwartz wow, does it still work?
Of course! Even the focal plane shutter still runs relatively reliably.
@@LillySchwartz nice, Im afraid to buy one, repair cost.
Well, it can be a bit of a gamble, but there are plenty of good ones out there, at least in the US. I bought mine from a shop that checked it out thoroughly for me.