TO CREATE MUSIC WITH ELECTRONIC
by NIC ENDO - Berlin, December 1998
TO CREATE MUSIC WITH ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT AND COMPUTERS... FOR ME THIS SEEMED ALMOST A MYSTERY. I ALWAYS IMAGINED IT WAS SO DIFFICULT AND COMPLICATED, AND I MUST ADMIT IT REALLY INTIMIDATED ME AT THE START. THIS WAS NOT THE TECHNOLOGY ITSELF, BUT RATHER WHAT OTHERS (ONLY MEN) MADE OF IT, HOW IT WAS PRESENTED TO ME. IT WAS AN INSURMOUNTABLE OBSTACLE, SOMETHING I'D NEVER GRASP BECAUSE I'M A GIRL...
THEY COULD NEVER REALLY HIDE HOW FLATTERED THEY FELT WHEN I'D ASK THEM FOR HELP. 'CAUSE THAT WAS THEIR BIG MOMENT - THE CHANCE TO ACT LIKE COMPLETE IDIOTS IN FRONT OF ME. THEY COULD PLAY AT BEING THE COMPETENT ONE, LIVE OUT EVERY NEUROSIS THEY HAD ABOUT THEIR IMAGE. AND AT THE SAME TIME CONSTANTLY DELIVER THE SUBLIMINAL VIBE THEY HAD ALREADY GIVEN UP ON ME, THAT ALL THEIR EXPLANATIONS WERE WORTH NOTHING IN THE END.
THEY'D INTRODUCE BY SAYING HOW EVERYTHING'S NO PROBLEM AT ALL, SUPER EASY - THEN START TO EXPLAIN, MAKING IT ALL DOUBLY COMPLICATED AND TEDIOUS. THEY'D GO THROUGH THE MOST MINUTE TECHNICAL NON-DETAILS, GIVING YOU COMPLETELY USELESS INFORMATION LIKE THE YEAR OF CONSTRUCTION, THE COMPANY HISTORY AND SO ON. FINALLY THEY'D SHOW YOU A COUPLE OF "EASY GAMES" YOU COULD PLAY - IF YOU WERE REALLY ON TOP OF IT (LIKE THEY THEMSELVES WERE !)...
THEY'D TALK ON AND ON, IN THE END JUST DELIVERING AN ENDLESS MONOLOGUE. MENTAL MASTURBATION, INTELLECUAL JERK OFFS. I'D TURN AND GO. SORRY, BUT IT'S RIDICULOUS ! THIS I DO NOT NEED !
IN THE END IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HELPING ME - IT WAS A PURELY EGOISTIC DEMONSTRATION OF POWER. AND NOTHING MORE. THEY WANT TO KEEP "THEIR LAST BASTION OF POWER" AS FAR AWAY FROM WOMEN AS POSSIBLE. NOW WOMEN THINK THEY CAN DEAL WITH THE RULES OF MACHINERY !?!?
AND MORE AND MORE OF THEM ARE DOING IT !
NO WOMAN HAS EVER BEEN BORN WITH A PHOBIA FOR TECHNOLOGY OR WHO IS "LESS GIFTED" TECHNOLOGICALLY. I THINK THAT SOME GIRLS SIMPLY HAVE NO INTEREST IN IT, WHILE OTHER GIRLS AVOID IT FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. THIS IS BECAUSE FROM WHEN THEY WERE BABIES THEY WERE MADE TO BELIEVE THEY WERE TOO STUPID TO UNDERSTAND IT, AND THAT TECHNICAL THINGS ARE "MEN'S WORK". I CAN'T THINK OF ANY OTHER EXPLANATION AS THIS TO WHY, IN COMPARISON TO MEN, THERE ARE FAR TOO FEW WOMEN IN AREA OF MUSIC.
AND IN FACT IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER I NOW PRODUCE THE MUSIC MYSELF OR SIMPLY ACCOMPANY - SING - TO THE MUSIC. THE TEXTS COME FROM ME, THEY ARE WHAT IT IS REALLY ABOUT. YOU SELECT THE SAMPLES YOURSELF AND LET SOMEBODY ELSE PRODUCE THE MUSIC, AND DESPITE THAT NONE OF MY IDEAS AND SENTIMENTS SLIP FROM MY GRASP...
IT'S IMPORTANT THAT GIRLS FINALLY APPLY ALL THEIR PERSONALITY, AIMS AND IDEAS TO UTILIZE DIFFERENT MUSICAL MEANS THAN THE CONVENTIONAL (MUSICAL) INSTRUMENTS WHOSE CREATIVE POTENTIAL IS ALWAYS LIMITED AFTER A CERTAIN POINT. JUST LIKE HOW THE SUBERSIVE POTENTIAL OF MUSIC AT SOME POINT RUNS DRY UNLESS YOU MOVE BEYOND CERTAIN PRE-DETERMINED MUSICAL LIMITATIONS.
ELECTRONIC RADICAL MUSIC, DIGITAL HARDCORE WITH AND BY WOMEN. THIS MUST OPERATE ALONE AS A COUNTER-BALANCE TO THE STILL MALE DOMINATED ELECTRONIC AND HARDCORE FIELDS. ONLY THEN CAN A TRUE UNITY EXIST WHICH WORKS ALL THE MORE POWERFULLY, WITH ALL THE MORE STRENGTH.
WITHIN THE BAND I AM COMPLETELY SUPPORTED IN WHAT I'D DOING, AND THIS SUPPORT CAN BE RECKONED WITH FOR DHR FATAL.
FOR GIRLS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN MAKING THEIR OWN MUSIC BUT WHO HAVE NOT YET BECOME FULLY SWITCHED ON TO THIS: DON'T LET YOURSELVES GET FILLED UP WITH BULLSHIT ! IGNORE THOSE PRETENTIOUS MALE GAMES !
MANY THING YOU CAN WORK OUT BY YOURSELF OVER TIME WHEN YOU TRY OUT THE EQUIPMENT IN A RELAXED, PLAYFUL MANNER. THE BEST THINGS OFTEN HAPPEN AS A RESULT OF MISTAKES, EXPERIMENTS AND COINCIDENCE. AT THE START, PRETTY SIMPLE AND REASONABLY PRICED EQUIPMENT TO CREATE MUSIC COULD BE FOR INSTANCE A POCKET SAMPLER (YAMAHA SU-10 RECOMMENDED), A FOUR TRACK RECORDER, AN EFFECTS MACHINE OR PEDAL, AND POSSIBLY A MIXER, SYNTH AND KEYBOARDS, MICROPHONE, TAPE OR DAT RECORDER.
TO BE ABLE TO HANDLE CERTAIN MUSICAL TECHNOLOGY, OR TO BELIEVE YOU CAN, IS ONE THING - SO THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO RELATE TO OTHER PEOPLE. TO BE ABLE TO TRANSPOSE YOUR FEELINGS AND ENERGY IS ANOTHER JOB... AND SINCE I'M ON THE SUBJECT, IT IS TOTALLY POLITICAL TO BE AWARE OF WHO IS TWIDDLING WITH THE CONTROLS, TURNING THE SWITCHES.
A REVOLUTION RESULTING FROM THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF MUSIC - AND THAT IDOLOGY AS A WEAPON THAT CAN PRODUCE CHANGES ON A POLITICAL AND CREATIVE LEVEL - ALL OF THIS IS MEANINGLESS IF WOMEN ARE NOT AN ACTIVE PART OF IT ALL !
BEGIN THE REVOLUTION HERE AMONG US FIRST !
