I typically use this intro in my bio for online profiles: Married GenX trans woman living in The ATL. Music, travel and technology are my jams. I’m probably some sort of stereotype. I make my living in IT (currently working with LLMs) and have always had a need to create music to get those ideas out of my head.
first started making “electronic” music in like 1994 with an Apple machine and a Roland S-50 sample keyboard (weighed a TON). At the peak my home studio had 2 behringer 3282’s wired together. If you go to the midi page on wikipedia, the synth rack photo used was from that time. These days i have two small racks with my rack gear (not used much). I mainly just use stock ableton suite plus my hardware synths and turntable.
Had a rough run of years battling depression, but finally started to see some light that has me working on music again. So for a little over a year I’ve been putting stuff up as transient failures. i’m not sure what to call the genre/style/etc. I just post it as electronic.
Prior to that I was working with two other people technically from like 1996/97 until 2016, but we really only had output from around 2005 to 2016 under the name of choking sun. I think the last of the four shows we did was 2014 or 2015. We did do a noisefest with Jarboe (SWANS) as Jarboe vs Choking Sun. This stuff was all brutal and no one could ever tell us what the sound was. i think we usually said it was avant-garde or experimental, but we didn’t reject the noise label.
I uploaded stuff 14 years ago that i did on my own from around the late 1990s to early 2000s as dj_mosquito and tried a remix contest the orb was doing like 12 years ago and posted it there as well.
hopefully this isn’t “spammy” just thought i’d provide a solid background on the what stuff i’ve done. Really looking forward to interacting with the community.
I listened to all your soundcloud tracks. “Amongst the Decaying” is a cool track! Great sound design and the beat was unexpected when it came in. I thought it went a little too long but overall great track. I also really like “The Stuttered Echos of Jellyfish” and “Unserviced”, among some others as well.
I think a lot of your stuff could be tightened up by reducing the run time and adding some sort of outro/tag. Capitalising on the solid ideas you have by giving them a beginning, middle and end. I’m not saying you should go back and do that to all these tracks, and I’m not saying that it’s the right thing to do for your music in general, it’s just what I would try and achieve if they were my tracks.
Hope that makes sense and feel free to tell me to fuck off too. Lol.
Would love some stems of the mentioned tracks if you’ve still got the sessions in tact. We host a google drive folder with stems to some members tracks for free roam to remix whenever you want.
Listening to the “13 Months of Failure” track on Soundcloud right now. It’s good fun, and feels almost like an old school beat tape people intended for rappers in search of beats (although perhaps less Hip Hop). Are you actually looking for rappers?
thank you for the constructive feedback! yeah i’ve been trying to work on that aspect of my music for quite some time and continue too. I’m always trying to find a way to outro tracks. It’s just a harder thing to practice when the percentage of stuff reaching the point of needing an ending is on the small side.
I can spit out some stems for sure. how granular do y’all usually go?
yeah that track is all the unfinished shit from the last year. I haven’t been looking for rappers, but in all honesty if someone found something that they wanted to rap over i’d be super happy and completely down for a collab.
When im bouncing stems for others, ill try to clean up the session a bit so there isnt a tonne of tracks with 1 or two “events” in them by bussing all those tracks. You shouldnt need to change any levels, just print the bus instead of the individual tracks, and print them as they sound in your mix (with the fx).
Howdy and welcome! Reeeeaaaaalllyyy diggin what i’m hearing on your Transient Failures soundcloud - right up my ally! Cant wait to hear about your current music makin rig. We loooove talking gear around here.
Thank you and i’m glad you are really digging what you hear. My current rig isn’t that impressive compared to what it used to be. i’ll post some photos once i track them down.
I make my living in IT (currently working with LLMs) and have always had a need to create music to get those ideas out of my head.
