the sound is irrelevant

The sound is irrelevant is one concept Electronic drum pioneer Dan Dauz talks about in this candid podcast.

Podcast Topics

Future of Electronic Drums

applications of electronic drums

* more exploration of various timber and tones in rhythmic possibilities that are not standard drum sounds

* rhythmic expressions that are not drums

* Midi and electronic drums

* Further midi is still necessary

* Finally midi holds way more information than the audio does

* my performance should just be the data of my performance, the sound is irrelevant

* Kurzweil

* continuous controller is a form of expression

“The Bat Cave”

* Missing Persons

* The process of making electric drums

* I want to do what i want to do, thats my goal.

Drumset companies getting back into electronic drums, again

* DW electric drum kit

* there going to give away a few to some poster boys

 

John Stamos and electronic drums

* Beach Boys

* Full House

 

* Roland enters the electronic drum industry

*  TD7

* KAT switches to Roland

Related links

* Dauz Drums

* part 1

 

Follow what excites you with no expectation

Follow what excites you with no expectation – and do not listen to other people about the way you want to do things because thats their beliefs not your beliefs”

podcast topics

Cooking and Food

* salad dressing

* Corn Syrup Obesity correlation

* daily fresh bread

* azul carbodiimide

* gluten free

* health food trends

* “try to simplify your recipes”

* salt and pepper

* “new players amazing technique”

* Stanley Clarke

* “you have to leave space”

* Jaco Pastorius

* Daniel Gorin

* “Theres a guy who plays like you”

* Invent your Future

* Continuum

* Chick Corea

* Internet Bass Players

* Freddie Rico Melaman

* Baseball 2 Album in the works

* “if you want to make a living you’re going to have to play the bass”

* Tony Williams

*

studio musician in Paris

* French arrangers want you to play every note they write

* no reference when tracking

* sight read a piano part and manage to play in on a guitar

* Ross Tompkins

* Herbie Hancock

* sight reading one page at a time

* brazilian musicians in Paris

* Cafe Au Lait

Kaylene

* Kaylene Peoples

* Romantic Bossa Nova

musical training

* “universe puts you in the right place at the right moment if your following what excites you”

* “Follow what excites you the best way you can with no expectation”

* “do not listen to other people about the way you want to do things because thats their beliefs not your beliefs”

* listening to Oscar Peterson, Sam Jones, Ray Brown, Dave Brubeck

* Nice Conservatory of Music

* Bill Evans Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Eddie Gomez

* Books by Bunny Brunel

* 8 or 10 hours a day

* Joey Zawinul

* prefect pitch verses relative pitch

 

 

Related Links

Bunny Brunel Official Website

 

something primal about drums thats in us

” There’s something primal about drums thats in us ”

Podcast Topics

* Terry Bozzio

* Missing Persons

* Miles Davis

* Lindsey Buckingham

* Maynard Ferguson

* Chuck Wackerman

* “If Maynard was born today he would be a DJ”

* Primal Scream

* Steve Gadd

* Joe Zawinul

* Terry Fator

* Murray Spivack

* Long Beach Arena

* “if you fail you have to get up”

* Brooks Wackerman

* Earl Hatch

* Chuck Flores

* Ruth Richie

* Mallets

* Wally Snow

* Farmers Market

* Nibblers

* Corn Beef and Cabbage

* Consule TV

* Kazumi Watanabe

* Academy Award

* King Kong

* “starting is the hardest thing and finishing is the hardest thing”

* Drum Duets

* Echo Wacko

* Drum Compositions from back in the day

* Guitar Center

* Obsession

* Frank Zappa

* Prince

* record everything

* drum machine

* Linn Drum

* Prince song 1999

* When Doves Cry

* SSL

* Rap

* 808 drum machine

* Aretha Franklin

* James Brown

* Count Basie

* “There’s something primal about drums thats in us”

* Chad Wackerman

* Chuck Wackerman

* “todays the best day of your life, what are you going to do with it”

* “This is the best time ever to make art”

* Hanna Ford Welton

* Youtube

* Sheila E

Internet drummers

* “Thats the platform that they have”

* isolation and internet drummers

* Ray LeVier

* Josh Freese

* Stan Freese

* Girl Drummers

* John Bonham did not play loud

* Jeff Ocheltree

* Speed King

* Curt Bisquera

* Baked Potato

* Rush Cover

* Mister Mystic

* The Disco Kid

* John Wackerman Podcast part 1

related links

John Wackerman official website

Suppression of ones creativity

In part 2 of Victoria Serna’s podcast the suppression of ones creativity is just one of the topics discussed.

podcast topics

* integrity in art

* fast fashion

* 80 of US textiles end up in land fills

* longevity in art

* importance of individuality in art

* Leroy Neiman

* Shepard Fairey

* hand drawn stickers

* Street Art

* hand drawn stickers as street art

* with malicious intent

* suppression of creativity

* “you suppress someones creativity that like higher consensus of thinking”

* take away each persons indivduality

* “taking and not giving nowadays”

* “love more and hate less”

* “expansion of your consciousness”

* everything is connected

* human aura and how it affects the earth

* “what you breath into the world is what you get back”

 

Vegan Lifestyle

* vegan transformation

* What the Health

* Chasing Coral

* “Im not ignorant to this amymore”

* “i can’t just keep living life like my diet is not contributing to a bigger picture”

* injury recovery with less or none  pharmaceuticals

* “our interpretation and where it comes from all revolves around money”

* “im my on being and I needed to be my own being”

* Curt Bisquera

* anxiety and diet correlation

* “The infamous protein question”

* “everything is marketed with meat base”

* flax seed

* chia seed

* hemp seeds

 

victorias smoothie and vegan eating

* kate

* spinach

* banna

* apple

* orange

* “any kind meat or anything your eating your seasoning it with plants”

* Vegan out food

* falafel wrap

* thai vegan

* blaze pizza crust is vegan

* fruit from the supermarket

* Elton John

* its funny how cravings change

* melk chocolate

* cake balls

* vegan friendly melty chocolate

* “its easy to be disconnected from certain things”

* food corporation hand off customers to drug companies

* “we are the only species that drink another species milk”

Mary’s Shake

* almond milk

* almond butter

* flax seeds

* flax seeds

* oats

* banana

* dinner

* quinoa

* bell pepper

* red onion

* black beans

* pinterst

* vegan soups

* Victoria Serna podcast part 1

related links

Instagram

Artistic Spotlight

Moon songwriting Process

In part 2 of Joey Grijalva we talk about the Shoot The Moon songwriting process.

Podcast Topics

* Music Snob

* Jazz Snob

* Fusion Snob

* Progressional Rock Snob

* Tower Records

* Musicland

* Buena Park Mall

* Yellow Volkswagon

* Cadillac

* Chevelle

* Sims Skateboard Sticker

* Dave Peters

* guitar lessons

* Paul Jones

* Rush Songs

* Alex Lifeson

* Triump

* Mood For A Day

* acoustic guitar

* songwriting

* poems

* cassette tapes

* are poets the same as lyricists?

* Walt Whitman

* Mother from The Wall

* Pink Floyd

* “I wanna rock n roll all night”

* Steve Morris

* KISS

* The Smiths

* Shoot The Moon

* “we came up with music, words came later”

* Novel

* Short Story

* Poem

* Kate

* Venus

* songwriting process

* Within Reach

* Mattron

* Andy Summers

* The Police

* Every Breath You Take

* Major 9

* Moon Kent

* Real Genius

* Porcarro shuffle

* rough track

* Visions DAW

* click track

* Peter Gabriel

* 2 things meshing them into 1

* John Wackerman

* Akai 12 track multitrack tape recorder

* Lord of the Rings

* Ron Howard

* The Breakfast Club

* Simple Minds

* Don’t Forget About Me

* “Theres no light behind such eyes”

* “looks that push you away”

* We are the World clip

* Joey Grijalva podcast part 1

Joey Grijalva related links

Facebook

Shoot The Moon (band)

contests bingeworthy shows

podcast topics

contests bingeworthy shows are just a few of things we talked about in part 3 of AmeeJay’s podcast.

* skateboarding contest

* Underexposed

* Amelia Brodka

* MTV women skateboarder reality TV Show

* skateboarding camaraderie

* Syndicate skateboard sponsor

* Abby Zarney

* Justice Taybor

* Cara Lawson

* surfing

* binge worthy on Netflix

* Shameless

* Northern Exposure

* The Office

* Breaking Bad

* How I Met Your Mother

* How To Get Away With Murder

* professional detachment

* anger

* internalization

* Phil Papelera

* What is a Filipino

* Filipino foods

* Lumpia

* Chicken Adobo

* Eva Armanto

related links

part 1

twitter

 

whole new expressions that have yet to be explored

In part 3 of Dan Dauz podcast Dan talks about all of the unexplored expressions that a musician can experience with electronic drums

podcast topics

* value in everyday conversation

* things as a distraction

* money as a distraction

* empowering others

* living in the now

* “I like to connect with people”

* friendship

* Pizza Drum Club

* annoying traits of drummers

* drummers against electronic drums

* 40 years in on electronic drums

* “we’ve spent 35 years trying to make electronic drums be acoustic drums”

* “whole new expressions that have yet to be explored”

* “if you’re going to be a innovator your also going to be ridiculed”

* learning through experience as opposed to learning through theory

* “you like that other people like them”

* “id rather not look like an asshole making up shit”

* unique electronic drum pads

* superball

* Wamo

* Frisbee

* rubber company

* “there is no individuality”

* “schooling stops you from thinking for yourself”

* art school

* part 1

 

Related links

* Dauz Drums

 

music is your passion

“I started out with music that was already dead”

podcast topics

* studio drumming

* ghosting drum parts

* where are the drum jobs

* electronic drums

* Pro Tools

* touring

* live shows

* producers

* parties

* networking

* production music

* theme parks

* movie work

* Curt Bisquera

* vanity sessions

* Britney Spiers

* Katty Perry

* JV

* Tony Royster Jr

* drummers are visual

* country music

* Jason Aldien

* Carrie Underwood

* Faith Hill

* drummers won’t get you work

* If your on time your late

* Jeff Porcarro

* Ricky Lawson

* Hal Blaine

* “music is your passion”

* Mark Shulman

* Pink

* Foreigner

* drum clinics

* “they do know what their talking about even if they can’t translate it to you”

* Steve Aoki

* vibraphone

* Milt Jackson

* Gary Burton

* Echo Wacko

* Bunny Brunel

* Kei Akagi

* John Wackerman Drum Duets

* Patrick Moraz

* Timecode Studios

* Madonna

* Depeche Mode

* Linn Drum

* Craig Krampf

* Howard Jones

* Beethoven

* Ableton Live

* “I started out with music that was already dead”

* Chad Wackerman

* Frank Zappa

* Terry Bozzio

* Missing Persons

* Miles Davis

* Maynard Ferguson

* Lindsey Buckingham

* Fleetwood Mac

* Rumors

* Part 1

overthinking photography

podcast topics

* getting Instagram attention

* Michael Weber

* “the whole flood of imagery gave that blank image the potential to be something”

* “nothing is suddenly something”

* conceptual photography class take away

* Poloroid

* “if you have to explain your art did you fail as an artist?”

* “A lot of art is based on other art”

* “is art a cumulative consensus”

* “is fine art a consumer product”

* “Lexus is a beefed out Camry”

* creating a new life in a new country

* diversity

* love

* dating

* pre-programmed life

* “i’m the most productive when i’m uncomfortable”

* “sometimes you can cross a street here and everything is different”

* “being homesick at home”

* AmeeJay

* Tony Hawk

* Rosa, Oscar, Alicia

* “Zen and the inner game of tennis”

* over thinking

* “knowing that you can do it is what keeps you from doing it”

* Dave Whalen

* “They don’t have that conditioning yet, they think different still”

* part 1

cowardly backroom of skateboarding

Subjects such as “cowardly backroom of skateboarding” are talked about in Jim’s part 3 podcast.

podcast topics

* never lived off skateboarding

* Stacy Perlata

* Jay Adams

* Gold Cup Series

* Eddie Elguera

* Duane Peters

* Billy Ruff

* Lester Kasai

* NSA vert contest

* Niel Blender

* Lester Kasai

* Salba

* Skatopia

* Whittier

* Big O

* Vans vert ramp

* DIY skate spots

* backyard skate spots

* Trash Bowl

* Terry TatDaddy Salad Bowl

* Higgins Hideout

* longevity skateboarding

* 80 year old skateboarders?

* Dave Duncan

* Ben Schroeder

* Skatopia Reunion

* Pool Party

* Powerflex Wheels

* “Events stop you from skating”

* Scheckler Foundation

* El Gato Classic

* Skateboarding Hall of Fame

* Shepard Fairey

* Tracker Trucks

* Blockhead

* Larry Balma

* Steve Cabalerro

* Yo Gaba Gaba

* ACME

* Sterling Ruby

* Jessie French

* Calvin Klein

* sponser me tape

* “pioneering generation”

* Grayslide

* Jimjam

* Dreamland Skateparks

* Combi

* “the 2000’s lets take it all to China and friggin sell our souls to the devil”

* Nyjah Huston

* “I don’t like to see a girl get hurt”

* Basic Bowl

* “Girls skateboarding has outpaced mens skateboarding 10 to 1 in the last five years”

* girl only skateboarding company

* “magazine don’t really work anymore”

* “Thrasher magazine is just a catalog for the brands they own”

* Advertorial

* Spitfire

* “The mom and pops act mom and pop but buy as corporate as the corporate stores”

* Independent trucks

* “Theres a conscious backstabbing throat slashing of brands that they don’t have control over”

* “They pander to the evil in us to sell product”

* “black denim backyard pool session”

* “they pick people for contests its all done behind closed doors and rooms by a bunch of fucking cowards”

* “cowardly backroom of skateboarding”

* “skateboarding was primarily driven by the feeling of riding”

* Jim Gray Podcast part 1

related links

* Inkgenda Decal Printing