You, Jorb, and Benn have just the right balance of music information and life lessons. I don't feel I watch you simply to learn about the new plugin or equipment, or cool techniques. I feel that I learn about the importance of people, community, and living life better. There is something great about this community. Thank you! And on the day that Patagonia made their amazing announcement, it makes sense that we do things for more than selfish reasons. 🌎
~ A Synthesis of The Thin Film of Hyperspecialism In The Face of An Age of Decline ~ Cameron, you, like most, are spreading or have spread yourself so thin over a niche, it is like a thin film of peanut butter over a slice of bread. It tastes Kind Of peanut buttery, or maybe it's just our imagination, but only enough for the company to list peanut butter as an ingredient. With the rest as as much cheap 'filler' as possible. We and/or our jobs/work are as thin films of peanut butter, say, in your case, maybe spread over your nice home studio's walls, ceiling, floor and brand-name equipment. And we here in Commentariat-Land lick at it/them. Maybe even you do, given the thinness of your spread. (Why the woods? Just for a sample? Then we go back into our 'studios', close the drapes and make sure there is enough padding on the walls in our cells? If we ever go out, is it with our mugs in the glow of our digital-detachment devices and headphones?) And so we go out into the woods-- or at least what we perceive of as their abstraction (i.e., not likely the untouched old-growth things)-- for a what? Korg commercial? Like those car commercials with no bumper-to-bumper traffic, no exhaust fumes, no noise, no road-rage and no roadkill, etc.. Chiptunes on a dying planet in uncommunities. Truman Shows. If we have all kinds of nature on our machines' screens, who needs nature anymore? If but for a mere reminder of how it once was before we turned our backs. A thin film of touchscreen. Unfa's jellyfish. 'Hermitage Part 1' (Port-Royal, album, 'Dying In Time') ua-cam.com/video/kOP853Ais4g/v-deo.html 'Sovereign Raiders' (Port Royal, compilation, 'Touched Two') ua-cam.com/video/xYzvojrTdmg/v-deo.html "If you still have a job, get everything in order, and quit. Do it as soon as you can, because we've never had a more important work to do." ~ Kyle Chamberlin (permaculture)
Hey just wanted to give you a heads up of a possible scam reply to my comment on this video asking me to “ telegraph me @Venus_Theory” claiming to be you with your Avatar.
I do it (electronic music via live VST host, in the box) because after almost 50 years of kindasorta “doing music” in a lot of different ways, I needed to develop focus. Now Gig Performer is hosting me on their live stream to tell my story, which is kind of blowing my mind. And Omri Cohen just told me he would drop in! ua-cam.com/video/Hp6NeI70hYY/v-deo.html
I'm 67, and I worked in factories for 45 years, dreaming and saving every dime so that I could one day have my own art/music/film studio. I was raised back at a time when "You need to get a REAL job" was the mantra I heard over and over, and so that is what I did. I put myself through college by going to night classes when I was working and am so grateful I am NOW retired and just get to play and create every day. I'm enjoying learning all about sound design & plugins on your channel. Thanks for posting these videos. Thanks for not letting the bastards who leave horrendous comments get you down. Over the years I've watched so many UA-camrs burn out or go insane trying to satisfy the algorithm gods. I think you are wise enough not to take that path. Again - Thank You. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
My mental health has never been better. Happiness is being retired and a home studio. This reminds me, it's time to get out my lightbox for the morning darkness here in the UK. Works wonders in combination with reducing the blue from my monitor at 6pm.
Yep, healthy sleep is so important for mental health. I got a lot more resilient when I mandated 7 hours of shut-eye and I usually wake naturally and doze for a few minutes before my alarm goes off - no more post-alarm aftershock and most mornings I feel like the cleaners came in and wiped down my mind. I'm looking forward to retirement - four more years!
Retired and home studio is def something to shoot for. Sounds like I could’ve written this, except for the UK part. My escape was from the dreary northeast US to sun soaked Arizona. Haven’t needed a happy lamp or anti-depressive supplements since I got here. 🌵👍
I really feel what Jade Wii said: "You have to do what you love, you can't chase somebody else's dream." and "following your dream is really scary". I'm trying to balance making music with a full-time job, which can be tricky...
I'm very relieved that the answer to your question is simply "for my own enjoyment and because I love the process". I never release anything, I don't want or need anyone's validation and I don't care if anyone other than me enjoy it. So so thankfully appeasing the algorithm gods is the furthest thing from anything I care about.
@@nooper007 theres also a lot of discord servers dedicated for producers where you can give and receivw feedback for your WIP-projects, or even full songs
What a great line up of people, and a lot of great answers. Really appreciate the inclusion, it was great to chat with you. I think it says a lot when so many of the answers revolve around passion, we're really in the right business. 🙏🙏
Just before watching this video, I was lucky to find myself able to spend almost three hours in a row just messing with stuff in my DAW. And it was totally worth the pain I’m feeling in my neck and shoulders now as it, well, made me happy. It sort of freed my head from most of the stuff related to my regular work … and of some worries related to dear folks. - Your video, the question and all those replies from all those people had to cross my path today, obviously, because if not doing it for others, making music for myself, messing with the musical stuff for myself and discovering lots of new things, concepts, ideas etc. just frees my mind. And like most of the nice folks in your video, it makes me smile … just like it made them smile at the time. - So, long story short, I guess I do what I do to make myself and at least one more person smile.
Music has always been the most important thing to me in everything, especially in videogames. I've always wanted to be able to create magic through music like other composers do it, and when I finally do it, it's an incredible feeling!!! I'm not here to reinvent the wheel or anything, but being able to make something that feels as good as music I've always loved is the biggest thing to me.
Thank you for asking this question, and also for recording the responses of so many wonderful and creative folks. But, of course, this brings me to something else: what's your answer to this question? Also, it was a pleasure meeting you at KnobCon! I hope your side hustle idea of selling extra AA and AAA batteries to desperate synth convention exhibitors takes off some day 😅
Derek Power // Composer-Producer / Lovable Snark Practioner I love listening to music because it takes you to another world or another place. For the duration of that piece, you are in that world. Music is therefore a key to that world. But when you *make* music, you now become a key-master and thus have the ability to create access to another world, which you will give to someone else for them to enter.
“Because if I didn’t my soul would wither and die” (paraphrased). My abstract being is languishing due to a great lack of being able to focus on my own craft. My physical being also suffers as a result. That changes today. Thank you Cameron. I needed to hear this today.
I wasn't able to make Knobcon this year. How many great folks I missed saying hello to! Love the thoughtful videos you make, Cameron. Why do I make music? Because it makes me happy. Simple as that.
Making music has been in my blood since I was knee high. I've been DJing for over 20 years, and recently built a studio so I could get back in to making music again. I think the main reason I get enjoyment out of it is because I've never expected anything from it. I don't expect it to become a source of income, I don't expect to sign up to a label, so there's no pressure or stress to be continuously making music. I probably won't be trying to push boundaries. I do it because I love it. If others get enjoyment from my work, then that's just a bonus.
Going down synth rabbit holes (hardware of software, irrelevant) and leaving everything behind for an hour or so. Plus discovering little known unique instruments. A little while ago stumbled into Gorkem Sen and his Yaybahar acoustic instrument, magic.
So cool to meet so many people with so many backgrounds and perspectives for sure! It's always so interesting to hear people talk about 'their thing' regardless of what it is, and I'm glad I got so many cool folks for this vid!
Awesome video! I love to hear directly from people, and what motivates their interests in creating. It really gives profound insight, as to the true nature of their character. The humility you captured here is something else...great work!
@@VenusTheory Haha, I think he roped a few people into going. I was telling Jade Wii (also roped by Benn) to say hello, while she was LIVE. I wanted to go (he asked me about it too) but it was too late to prepare. Sure glad I didn't because I would have had to cancel, due nearby fires. Looks like it was a lot of Phun though. Thanks for another great one!
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I love that you often circle around to themes like this, as well, as the more technical subjects. I mostly make music to calm my brain. I don't know where I fit in terms of style, I mean my last piece I put up on bandcamp was a mix of orchestral, synth and drone metal. I also do electro dub chill tracks so who knows?
Thank you this was so beautiful. It's in moment like these I am most grateful to realize - we are all but one and deeply connected. I have learnt so much from this community. There is nothing more wonderful or magical then to be able to share an idea and getting to see it manifest in the physical world....for us it is sound...for the writer it's ink...the medium only changes...the question is never "what?" but only "how?"....I better get some coffee and some chord changes before I get to philosophical🙃 All you wonderful amazing people out there; keep up the good work! It is much appreciated and it changes the world! We shall all do our best to explore and return to another with more knowledge and wisdom! 😊
Hello. I have only recently joined your channel, but you have indeed inspired me to go out there and create something. Whether it is awesome is a wholly subjective matter which I cannot answer. I am in my late fifties and have played guitar and piano since my teens. I am not 'techie', but after meeting my now wife, a software engineer, ten years ago I acquired a MacBook with Garageband and also a midi keyboard. Until I watched your programme I had only used these tools to record my instruments with a mic and play some other instrument sounds on the midi. Since watching your programme, however, I have now ventured into the synthesiser settings on Garageband and the loops and so on. I have had mixed results so far but I am thoroughly enjoying the experience. I have written songs in the past, but now I a trying out more experimental sound mixtures. Thank you so much for this b delightful show. I also very much enjoy the videos where you sit at the keyboard and go through various modes and scales. I have just enough theory to get some really useful ideas from watching these. Best regards, Bob McGowan.
I think that we are all creators in one way or another, I just love bringing ideas and expression into the world for me and others to experience, that's what keeps me going...
JAde_Wii's answer was so spot-on that it further drives me to follow my dreams no matter how scary it is. Thanks to her and thanks Venus Theory. I've enjoyed a few of your videos but your mockery of the Ukulele + the way you played your 12 string baritone one finally made me subscribe.
Great video, sometimes I wonder why I spend hours shooting videos, making music that only a small group of people watch but sharing my passion with others and hopefully some times inspiring them makes my day. Love your videos, please keep them coming. Cheers Dave
So cool to see you meet Benn. It would be super cool to see a video with you two about how to collab on tracks, from a creative and technical perspective. Your styles seem pretty complimentary!
Mental Health is a big issue. I am trying to sell my hairdressing salon, because I am drained from doing this for 25 years. Thanks for the video, inspired me to write down my "why", why do I want to life a life where music is the focus of my life
Awesome content man, really enjoyed the interviews ya did a good job with it. There are 2 reasons for me making music, & the first is being able to make someone feel a specific way with nothing besides sound. It doesn’t always work out, but sometimes it does. My second reason, and this is gonna sound grim, but I feel like a catalog of personal & all original music is one of the best things someone can leave behind after we’re gone. Assuming someone will miss me, all they’ll have to do is load up some of my songs off internet & suddenly they’re swimming inside my mind & headspace that I was in when the song was made. That just seems more valuable to me personally than traditional heirlooms. I guess there is a third reason too & it’s just because it’s never not fun to make music. 😁
Thank you for making this video, I always enjoy these types of videos that allow us to hear other people's perspectives on something that we also enjoy / inspires us and which brings us together. would love to see more like this in the future.
As usual, awesome vid, however it's extra cool to see how passionate you are about mental health. Excited to see what other vids you make with this in mind👍
I thought that I have an understanding of the world, the message that comes with it and a simple enough way to explain it, that could change the world for the better, if I got enough people to listen to it. I knew that nobody listens to politicians or reads books, but everybody listened to Michael Jackson and 2Pac, so of course the solution was to reach people through art. I learned that the music industry is an industry, I learned that music is just music and that I am not the person that will be able to significantly change the world for the better (many reasons) - that's how it is. So my reason for getting into this died a pretty ugly death. I'm kind of staying with it, because it's the only thing I know, but my heart isn't really in it anymore, because I figured out that what I tried to achieve, can't be achieved - not by myself. My heart not really being in it anymore changed EVERYTHING. That may sound very negative, but what I'm trying to say is: the question you're asking is of outmost importance and everyone should ask themselves this question and answer it honestly.
it`s one question I`v never been able to answer, I don`t have a `Why`, it`s just something I`m drawn to, no idea Why or for what `Purpose`, I`m just along for the ride really.
Damn I’m in Chicago and didn’t even know this was a thing ? no advertisement for it, but I leaned they never put all the features in one device to make more money but mpc comes the closest to all in one box that does it all to me.
Thanks a lot Cameron. Love to hope and dream about that one day i can leave my 9to5 job and the only thing on my daily “todolist” would be is “make something awesome” thank you. 🎹
It’s pretty clear that none of this is worth doing if not for the love of art and music. Trying to build a career or even supplemental income from my creative skills has always been in the corner of my mind but the moment I begin to take it too seriously it also loses it’s magic. At my age I’m no longer willing to be the tortured perfectionist I once was, looking for the perfect opportunity to join a band, or a rush of inspiration to write a bunch of songs. I’m just going to make music on my own time, on my own terms when I feel like it’s going to feel good to do so.
Off-topic, but would you please answer one question? HOW do you sound close-miked when you're not, and what mic (hypercardioid large diaphragm?) are you using for VO? Obviously your room is treated, which is part of it, but geez, it sounds great! Loving your work .. thank you. Very insightful.
Yo, first comment here, I haven't even watched this yet, I know it'll be great, already left a like, haters gon hate, yolo Great content, was interesting to hear all these similar yet different perspectives, keep it up !
I enjoy making some of the same sounds that pioneering musicians of the past made, from Dahlia Derbyshire and Jean-Jacques Perrey to ELP, Kraftwerk, Jean-Michel Jarre, the Cars, Italo Disco, New Wave, New Romantics, and so on. Before I could only listen to the sounds and admire from afar. But with current technology I can make similar sounds and feel like being part of something bigger than myself.
Funny timing on on this topic - today I turned in my resignation after deciding to get out of nursing. I started in the mid-90s as a genuine desire to help those who are sick, or hurting, and to try to make some difference in the world. The last 10+ years it's gradually felt like less nursing and more concierge, and service recovery, and the patient is never wrong (even when they are). The pandemic certainly helped put the nail in the coffin - it ruined my mental health for a long time, although I did (and do) seek help and am much better now. So I guess when you don't know why you do what you do any more, change is a good thing. Follow your passions, and make them your vocation. That is a life well-lived.
“You have to follow your dream! You have to do what you love!” Mmm no you don’t. You can absolutely just work ‘a job’ for money and to live, and then spend your time off and that money on ‘what you love’ I think we push this idea that you have to do what you love for a living waaaaay too much, and it’s just complete bs that’s steering people wrong. Be honest. Also, best explanation I ever got on the topic of the vid was from a musician who was working at a music store: “we are selling, repairing, and renting dreams. And that’s important.” Damn right it’s important. What are we without dreams?
I do what I do because it makes me happy, would I like to maybe make a career out of it? Sure, who wouldn't? But it's how I cope with mental health issues, and maybe I can get a few people that likes a song I wrote too...
I do what I do because no one else is doing it. I do what I do because you, and I, and everyone else are living in someone else's unrealized version of the future, and owe it to them to at least try and realize it for them, in ways they could never have dreamed of. I do what I do because in the future, I want someone to look back at what I did, and know that at least one guy back then "got it", and tried. I do what I do because there's too much dancing and not enough thinking. I do what I do because Maxim Gorky was bored one summer night 115 years ago, and felt the same awe looking at Luna Park that I felt sitting on my dad's shoulders, peering through the store window of Video Concepts at Fox Valley Mall in the winter of 1979. I do what I do because our buffer is too small as a species. We forget the meaningful, the important, the vital, forever clouded by our unending preoccupation with the trivial. ua-cam.com/video/yhy0oelnxE4/v-deo.html I do what I do because I couldn't live with myself if I didn't respond to that calling in some way.
I do it for the infinite creative combinations available with sound and worlds you create with them, | fascinated in the exchange of idea and reality that is available when you experiment and then create a finished track. I also like the Synesthesia anomaly that imparts the ideas if you let them in. I'd love someone to show me art the create when they listen to my tracks for example. For me music it's all about communication and companionship.
Interesting Vid! I wasnt sure where it was going when you said..trip to visit Knob-Con :P as my subconscious teenager sniggered in the back of my mind there.
So: why do YOU do what you do? 🤔
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You, Jorb, and Benn have just the right balance of music information and life lessons. I don't feel I watch you simply to learn about the new plugin or equipment, or cool techniques. I feel that I learn about the importance of people, community, and living life better. There is something great about this community. Thank you! And on the day that Patagonia made their amazing announcement, it makes sense that we do things for more than selfish reasons. 🌎
I just love music, all kinds of music. Being a creator is a direct expression of that and it's a way to share my love of music with others.
~ A Synthesis of The Thin Film of Hyperspecialism In The Face of An Age of Decline ~
Cameron, you, like most, are spreading or have spread yourself so thin over a niche, it is like a thin film of peanut butter over a slice of bread. It tastes Kind Of peanut buttery, or maybe it's just our imagination, but only enough for the company to list peanut butter as an ingredient. With the rest as as much cheap 'filler' as possible.
We and/or our jobs/work are as thin films of peanut butter, say, in your case, maybe spread over your nice home studio's walls, ceiling, floor and brand-name equipment. And we here in Commentariat-Land lick at it/them. Maybe even you do, given the thinness of your spread.
(Why the woods? Just for a sample? Then we go back into our 'studios', close the drapes and make sure there is enough padding on the walls in our cells? If we ever go out, is it with our mugs in the glow of our digital-detachment devices and headphones?)
And so we go out into the woods-- or at least what we perceive of as their abstraction (i.e., not likely the untouched old-growth things)-- for a what? Korg commercial? Like those car commercials with no bumper-to-bumper traffic, no exhaust fumes, no noise, no road-rage and no roadkill, etc.. Chiptunes on a dying planet in uncommunities. Truman Shows.
If we have all kinds of nature on our machines' screens, who needs nature anymore? If but for a mere reminder of how it once was before we turned our backs. A thin film of touchscreen. Unfa's jellyfish.
'Hermitage Part 1' (Port-Royal, album, 'Dying In Time')
ua-cam.com/video/kOP853Ais4g/v-deo.html
'Sovereign Raiders' (Port Royal, compilation, 'Touched Two')
ua-cam.com/video/xYzvojrTdmg/v-deo.html
"If you still have a job, get everything in order, and quit. Do it as soon as you can, because we've never had a more important work to do." ~ Kyle Chamberlin (permaculture)
Hey just wanted to give you a heads up of a possible scam reply to my comment on this video asking me to “ telegraph me @Venus_Theory” claiming to be you with your Avatar.
I do it (electronic music via live VST host, in the box) because after almost 50 years of kindasorta “doing music” in a lot of different ways, I needed to develop focus. Now Gig Performer is hosting me on their live stream to tell my story, which is kind of blowing my mind. And Omri Cohen just told me he would drop in! ua-cam.com/video/Hp6NeI70hYY/v-deo.html
I'm 67, and I worked in factories for 45 years, dreaming and saving every dime so that I could one day have my own art/music/film studio. I was raised back at a time when "You need to get a REAL job" was the mantra I heard over and over, and so that is what I did. I put myself through college by going to night classes when I was working and am so grateful I am NOW retired and just get to play and create every day. I'm enjoying learning all about sound design & plugins on your channel. Thanks for posting these videos. Thanks for not letting the bastards who leave horrendous comments get you down. Over the years I've watched so many UA-camrs burn out or go insane trying to satisfy the algorithm gods. I think you are wise enough not to take that path. Again - Thank You. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
My mental health has never been better. Happiness is being retired and a home studio. This reminds me, it's time to get out my lightbox for the morning darkness here in the UK. Works wonders in combination with reducing the blue from my monitor at 6pm.
Sounds like the dream haha. And for sure - having 'daylight' cycle lights is a must.
Yep, healthy sleep is so important for mental health. I got a lot more resilient when I mandated 7 hours of shut-eye and I usually wake naturally and doze for a few minutes before my alarm goes off - no more post-alarm aftershock and most mornings I feel like the cleaners came in and wiped down my mind. I'm looking forward to retirement - four more years!
Retired and home studio is def something to shoot for. Sounds like I could’ve written this, except for the UK part. My escape was from the dreary northeast US to sun soaked Arizona. Haven’t needed a happy lamp or anti-depressive supplements since I got here. 🌵👍
@@left0verture Oh wow, moving to the south of Italy, living in a villa on Sorento bay, would be the goat.
Working hard to retire at 45 AND have my well equipped home studio 😊
I really feel what Jade Wii said: "You have to do what you love, you can't chase somebody else's dream." and "following your dream is really scary". I'm trying to balance making music with a full-time job, which can be tricky...
right there with you!
I'm very relieved that the answer to your question is simply "for my own enjoyment and because I love the process". I never release anything, I don't want or need anyone's validation and I don't care if anyone other than me enjoy it. So so thankfully appeasing the algorithm gods is the furthest thing from anything I care about.
Exactly the way it should be.
Can i feel the same way, but release it because i feel like others „maaaayyybee“ profit from it?
@@nooper007 why couldn't you? sharing is caring
@@lauri5326 im bout to, the further i go the less i feel self conscious :)
@@nooper007 theres also a lot of discord servers dedicated for producers where you can give and receivw feedback for your WIP-projects, or even full songs
What a great line up of people, and a lot of great answers. Really appreciate the inclusion, it was great to chat with you.
I think it says a lot when so many of the answers revolve around passion, we're really in the right business. 🙏🙏
You, VT and others make it all worthwhile.
:D
Thanks for being part of it! Perhaps next year it'll be a mustache battle vlog.
@@VenusTheory I'll start cultivating a more imposing mustache.
I want people to see me as a civil war general, trapped in the synthesis-filled future.
@@JorbLovesGear Whatever the vaporwave equivalent of the wild west frontiersman is, I'm all in with you there. 11/10.
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wow. seeing that spark light up in their eyes while they shared their passion was just amazing.
Just before watching this video, I was lucky to find myself able to spend almost three hours in a row just messing with stuff in my DAW. And it was totally worth the pain I’m feeling in my neck and shoulders now as it, well, made me happy. It sort of freed my head from most of the stuff related to my regular work … and of some worries related to dear folks. - Your video, the question and all those replies from all those people had to cross my path today, obviously, because if not doing it for others, making music for myself, messing with the musical stuff for myself and discovering lots of new things, concepts, ideas etc. just frees my mind. And like most of the nice folks in your video, it makes me smile … just like it made them smile at the time. - So, long story short, I guess I do what I do to make myself and at least one more person smile.
These people all look immensely happy! Their eyes light up just talking about doing what they love❤️
The message, cinematography and vibe of this video is so awesome!
I like how the responses were different, but they all revolve around passion. "I just love sound." Same. Awesome vid as always, VT!
I agree, passion is the necessary piece for sure.
I love it when my peers ask the big questions. It’s important to reflect on who we are and why we do what we do. Thanks for this video.
Music has always been the most important thing to me in everything, especially in videogames. I've always wanted to be able to create magic through music like other composers do it, and when I finally do it, it's an incredible feeling!!! I'm not here to reinvent the wheel or anything, but being able to make something that feels as good as music I've always loved is the biggest thing to me.
Thank you for asking this question, and also for recording the responses of so many wonderful and creative folks. But, of course, this brings me to something else: what's your answer to this question?
Also, it was a pleasure meeting you at KnobCon! I hope your side hustle idea of selling extra AA and AAA batteries to desperate synth convention exhibitors takes off some day 😅
Derek Power // Composer-Producer / Lovable Snark Practioner
I love listening to music because it takes you to another world or another place. For the duration of that piece, you are in that world. Music is therefore a key to that world. But when you *make* music, you now become a key-master and thus have the ability to create access to another world, which you will give to someone else for them to enter.
“Because if I didn’t my soul would wither and die” (paraphrased).
My abstract being is languishing due to a great lack of being able to focus on my own craft. My physical being also suffers as a result.
That changes today. Thank you Cameron. I needed to hear this today.
I wasn't able to make Knobcon this year. How many great folks I missed saying hello to! Love the thoughtful videos you make, Cameron. Why do I make music? Because it makes me happy. Simple as that.
Making music has been in my blood since I was knee high. I've been DJing for over 20 years, and recently built a studio so I could get back in to making music again. I think the main reason I get enjoyment out of it is because I've never expected anything from it. I don't expect it to become a source of income, I don't expect to sign up to a label, so there's no pressure or stress to be continuously making music. I probably won't be trying to push boundaries. I do it because I love it. If others get enjoyment from my work, then that's just a bonus.
Going down synth rabbit holes (hardware of software, irrelevant) and leaving everything behind for an hour or so. Plus discovering little known unique instruments. A little while ago stumbled into Gorkem Sen and his Yaybahar acoustic instrument, magic.
Love this! Thanks for highlighting these great folks with tremendous insights and perspectives.
Best. Name. Ever. I am experiencing just that at my backyard feeder. :P
@@synthseeker Ha! Thanks! I was looking for a band/musician name that hasn't yet been taken...I think I know why now...
So cool to meet so many people with so many backgrounds and perspectives for sure! It's always so interesting to hear people talk about 'their thing' regardless of what it is, and I'm glad I got so many cool folks for this vid!
Awesome video! I love to hear directly from people, and what motivates their interests in creating. It really gives profound insight, as to the true nature of their character. The humility you captured here is something else...great work!
Definitely glad I went - almost didn't go but Benn talked me into it and I thought this was the perfect opportunity to get this type of video!
@@VenusTheory Haha, I think he roped a few people into going. I was telling Jade Wii (also roped by Benn) to say hello, while she was LIVE. I wanted to go (he asked me about it too) but it was too late to prepare. Sure glad I didn't because I would have had to cancel, due nearby fires. Looks like it was a lot of Phun though. Thanks for another great one!
Benn Jordan has always been a duck researcher his research related videos really help me alot
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For decades we've had synthesizers that make cat sounds, and that's great. But the real question is, where are all the synthesizers for making duck sounds?
@@lineriderrulz All the people trying to design them were driven quackers so the product never made it to market.
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I love that you often circle around to themes like this, as well, as the more technical subjects. I mostly make music to calm my brain. I don't know where I fit in terms of style, I mean my last piece I put up on bandcamp was a mix of orchestral, synth and drone metal. I also do electro dub chill tracks so who knows?
Thank you this was so beautiful. It's in moment like these I am most grateful to realize - we are all but one and deeply connected. I have learnt so much from this community. There is nothing more wonderful or magical then to be able to share an idea and getting to see it manifest in the physical world....for us it is sound...for the writer it's ink...the medium only changes...the question is never "what?" but only "how?"....I better get some coffee and some chord changes before I get to philosophical🙃
All you wonderful amazing people out there; keep up the good work!
It is much appreciated and it changes the world!
We shall all do our best to explore and return to another with more knowledge and wisdom!
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What they really are trying to say: they love to torture their neighbours with noise.
In nicer words, of course haha.
Heck yeah. Do it because you love it. Also very much looking forward to Benn Jordans next duck life cycle video.
Excellent video, and I say that not just because I'm blurred out sipping coffee behind Trovarsi.
Basically, "Cuz I wanna"
And that's how it should be.
Hello. I have only recently joined your channel, but you have indeed inspired me to go out there and create something. Whether it is awesome is a wholly subjective matter which I cannot answer. I am in my late fifties and have played guitar and piano since my teens. I am not 'techie', but after meeting my now wife, a software engineer, ten years ago I acquired a MacBook with Garageband and also a midi keyboard. Until I watched your programme I had only used these tools to record my instruments with a mic and play some other instrument sounds on the midi. Since watching your programme, however, I have now ventured into the synthesiser settings on Garageband and the loops and so on. I have had mixed results so far but I am thoroughly enjoying the experience. I have written songs in the past, but now I a trying out more experimental sound mixtures. Thank you so much for this b delightful show. I also very much enjoy the videos where you sit at the keyboard and go through various modes and scales. I have just enough theory to get some really useful ideas from watching these. Best regards, Bob McGowan.
Very interesting people you picked there. Laughed MAO reading the descriptions. Well done!
Definitely feel like I lucked out with all the folks I got in the vid!
I think that we are all creators in one way or another, I just love bringing ideas and expression into the world for me and others to experience, that's what keeps me going...
JAde_Wii's answer was so spot-on that it further drives me to follow my dreams no matter how scary it is. Thanks to her and thanks Venus Theory. I've enjoyed a few of your videos but your mockery of the Ukulele + the way you played your 12 string baritone one finally made me subscribe.
Great video, sometimes I wonder why I spend hours shooting videos, making music that only a small group of people watch but sharing my passion with others and hopefully some times inspiring them makes my day. Love your videos, please keep them coming. Cheers Dave
So cool to see you meet Benn. It would be super cool to see a video with you two about how to collab on tracks, from a creative and technical perspective. Your styles seem pretty complimentary!
You are a boon to the music community man. ❤
"I dont wanna spend 8 hours talking about something i don't care about" 6:37 that resonated heavily 😂👏👏👏
Mental Health is a big issue. I am trying to sell my hairdressing salon, because I am drained from doing this for 25 years. Thanks for the video, inspired me to write down my "why", why do I want to life a life where music is the focus of my life
Awesome content man, really enjoyed the interviews ya did a good job with it.
There are 2 reasons for me making music, & the first is being able to make someone feel a specific way with nothing besides sound. It doesn’t always work out, but sometimes it does. My second reason, and this is gonna sound grim, but I feel like a catalog of personal & all original music is one of the best things someone can leave behind after we’re gone. Assuming someone will miss me, all they’ll have to do is load up some of my songs off internet & suddenly they’re swimming inside my mind & headspace that I was in when the song was made. That just seems more valuable to me personally than traditional heirlooms. I guess there is a third reason too & it’s just because it’s never not fun to make music. 😁
I´m looking forward to these future videos of yours! Enjoy your day! Rolf
Thank you for making this video, I always enjoy these types of videos that allow us to hear other people's perspectives on something that we also enjoy / inspires us and which brings us together. would love to see more like this in the future.
It was great meeting you, hopefully see you again sooner than later!
Ayyyyyyy great to meet you as well! Need to get all those books ordered you suggested 😅
❤️ Thanks. Superb upload! Loved hearing their feelings on why they do what they do and fully empathise.
Super wholesome vibes from this one. Thanks man. Great video.
Always good to hang with you Cameron! I absolutely can't watch myself talking so I'll never know what I actually said in this interview.
As usual, awesome vid, however it's extra cool to see how passionate you are about mental health. Excited to see what other vids you make with this in mind👍
I thought that I have an understanding of the world, the message that comes with it and a simple enough way to explain it, that could change the world for the better, if I got enough people to listen to it. I knew that nobody listens to politicians or reads books, but everybody listened to Michael Jackson and 2Pac, so of course the solution was to reach people through art. I learned that the music industry is an industry, I learned that music is just music and that I am not the person that will be able to significantly change the world for the better (many reasons) - that's how it is. So my reason for getting into this died a pretty ugly death. I'm kind of staying with it, because it's the only thing I know, but my heart isn't really in it anymore, because I figured out that what I tried to achieve, can't be achieved - not by myself. My heart not really being in it anymore changed EVERYTHING. That may sound very negative, but what I'm trying to say is: the question you're asking is of outmost importance and everyone should ask themselves this question and answer it honestly.
it`s one question I`v never been able to answer, I don`t have a `Why`, it`s just something I`m drawn to, no idea Why or for what `Purpose`, I`m just along for the ride really.
Cool stuff brother! Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻
It was great to meet you.
Damn I’m in Chicago and didn’t even know this was a thing ? no advertisement for it, but I leaned they never put all the features in one device to make more money but mpc comes the closest to all in one box that does it all to me.
thanks mate, that's heartwarming
Thanks a lot Cameron. Love to hope and dream about that one day i can leave my 9to5 job and the only thing on my daily “todolist” would be is “make something awesome” thank you. 🎹
It’s pretty clear that none of this is worth doing if not for the love of art and music. Trying to build a career or even supplemental income from my creative skills has always been in the corner of my mind but the moment I begin to take it too seriously it also loses it’s magic. At my age I’m no longer willing to be the tortured perfectionist I once was, looking for the perfect opportunity to join a band, or a rush of inspiration to write a bunch of songs. I’m just going to make music on my own time, on my own terms when I feel like it’s going to feel good to do so.
Awesome! Love it!
Watching this made me feel happy . Great people and nothing but positive and inspiring vibes . Thank you for the video :)
Off-topic, but would you please answer one question? HOW do you sound close-miked when you're not, and what mic (hypercardioid large diaphragm?) are you using for VO? Obviously your room is treated, which is part of it, but geez, it sounds great! Loving your work .. thank you. Very insightful.
You’re nailing it with these videos. Keep it up 👍🏽!
I love the Boss Names that come up.
Yo, first comment here, I haven't even watched this yet, I know it'll be great, already left a like, haters gon hate, yolo
Great content, was interesting to hear all these similar yet different perspectives, keep it up !
I enjoy making some of the same sounds that pioneering musicians of the past made, from Dahlia Derbyshire and Jean-Jacques Perrey to ELP, Kraftwerk, Jean-Michel Jarre, the Cars, Italo Disco, New Wave, New Romantics, and so on. Before I could only listen to the sounds and admire from afar. But with current technology I can make similar sounds and feel like being part of something bigger than myself.
I'd love to see this topic line open up more in your videos. Awesome conversation opener, great video, important questions. Cheers!
Funny timing on on this topic - today I turned in my resignation after deciding to get out of nursing.
I started in the mid-90s as a genuine desire to help those who are sick, or hurting, and to try to make some difference in the world. The last 10+ years it's gradually felt like less nursing and more concierge, and service recovery, and the patient is never wrong (even when they are). The pandemic certainly helped put the nail in the coffin - it ruined my mental health for a long time, although I did (and do) seek help and am much better now.
So I guess when you don't know why you do what you do any more, change is a good thing.
Follow your passions, and make them your vocation. That is a life well-lived.
“You have to follow your dream! You have to do what you love!”
Mmm no you don’t. You can absolutely just work ‘a job’ for money and to live, and then spend your time off and that money on ‘what you love’ I think we push this idea that you have to do what you love for a living waaaaay too much, and it’s just complete bs that’s steering people wrong. Be honest.
Also, best explanation I ever got on the topic of the vid was from a musician who was working at a music store: “we are selling, repairing, and renting dreams. And that’s important.”
Damn right it’s important. What are we without dreams?
I do what I do because it makes me happy, would I like to maybe make a career out of it? Sure, who wouldn't? But it's how I cope with mental health issues, and maybe I can get a few people that likes a song I wrote too...
Great video! Also features a couple of my favourite music tech UA-camrs. Jorb is just brilliant.
My soul would wither up and die...... exactly!! I’m a new subscriber, dude, you rockin’ shit, great video.
Perfect 🙏❤️🙏
Nicely explained and to the point...!! ✌
Keep up the awesome work!
This video gave me the biggest smile.
Trovarsi from Perfect Circuit! Noice...I call myself a quantum creator. All I want to do is music.
My God, this is such a great channel! :)
Glad you're digging it!
The titles are gold. Make something awesome!
you are a good interviewer, with just one question you got good answers. 👍
Duck researcher! 🤣🤣🤣
I do what I do because no one else is doing it. I do what I do because you, and I, and everyone else are living in someone else's unrealized version of the future, and owe it to them to at least try and realize it for them, in ways they could never have dreamed of. I do what I do because in the future, I want someone to look back at what I did, and know that at least one guy back then "got it", and tried. I do what I do because there's too much dancing and not enough thinking. I do what I do because Maxim Gorky was bored one summer night 115 years ago, and felt the same awe looking at Luna Park that I felt sitting on my dad's shoulders, peering through the store window of Video Concepts at Fox Valley Mall in the winter of 1979.
I do what I do because our buffer is too small as a species. We forget the meaningful, the important, the vital, forever clouded by our unending preoccupation with the trivial.
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I do what I do because I couldn't live with myself if I didn't respond to that calling in some way.
I like your videos even before it gets past the first 2 seconds. Never done that for any other creator!!
Thanks!
So sad I missed Knobcon. Looks like a lot of cool people were there.
Great question, great answers, great times ahead.
This is a treat.
Nice vid man, important topic!
Making me tear up a bit. Guh I love this community ❤
Oh, wow, thanks for this!
BTW, first time hearing about Knobcon!
Thanks for this video
Nice work ✌
Beautiful video and the dudes 🎉
Good selection of interviewees .
Thank you. I needed this.
Please keep doing.. what you are doing :-) Love the Vids, Love the Music !! 🙂
never knew a conference like this existed 😞 I live under a rock.
Do you feel lucky punk? Sorry that ref is too old for most o you 🤣
Seriously though thanks for your work
I do it for the infinite creative combinations available with sound and worlds you create with them, | fascinated in the exchange of idea and reality that is available when you experiment and then create a finished track. I also like the Synesthesia anomaly that imparts the ideas if you let them in. I'd love someone to show me art the create when they listen to my tracks for example. For me music it's all about communication and companionship.
Very cool!
oh cool to see new faces....AND Benn again :) 🤩🤩🤩🤩
Interesting Vid! I wasnt sure where it was going when you said..trip to visit Knob-Con :P as my subconscious teenager sniggered in the back of my mind there.
That is the good WHY question, thanks man !
Great video!!!!
What a line up!
Someone should write a paper on The Beard in Electronic Musical Instrument Design and Use. :D
One of your best.