bapu
Ain't w'all thuh smartz uns? Uzin big werds.
 

 

...but not in the right context...

After I broke my arm in '84 and couldn't play guitar for months (which became years), I started using computer based methods to make music.  That's when I bought Cakewalk v1.  As things progressed and I kept upgrading, soon I was able to add audio (the original program was all MIDI based).  Even at this point, unlike most people, I had already divorced myself from the notion that what you were recording had to be playable live, be set up as if real people were playing (drummer middle, drumkit slightly panned to mirror a real kit, singer middle, guitars panned, etc.) and that the sounds should be like real instruments.
 
I found that sometimes putting things in odd places or substituting some weird sound for a normal piece of a drumkit sounded very interesting (try panning the drums with the guitar dead middle for example).  I didn't care if purists liked it, I was making the tunes for me anyway.

Hi,
 
Kinda strange, reading this, and trying to make a clear evaluation, but I am not a "musician", as most of you are, since I do not play an instrument regularly and to impress my friends, but when I sit at my midi keyboard, and open up a thing or two on the computer, I come up with sounds that I can put together and find a medium that allows me to say/do something with it.
 
I still don't put together songs, but the meandering kind of thing, for me, is about poetry and its "sound", and I have never thought of it as cold or hot, or weird ... just another sound, that opens up a new word, or feeling, and that is the only thing I describe and work on.
 
The sound helps me create, and I can now see how someone might like another player's tone, and hope to recreate something similar ... I happen to like the string sounds that KS uses, and would like to be able to do them some myself (never been able to and IK's thing was useless, including voices) ... but in the end, I probably can only create simple things, and try to put my own images to them, not via someone else's sound or feeling. Thus, what they do, or whatever, is of no consequence to what I find and work on.
 
I feel like Eno, I guess ... baby's on fire, better throw her in the water ... and start all over?

Washboard: check
Bucket Bass: check
Spoons: check
 
Now, where did I leave that jews harp?

 

 
Check, check & check. 

DrLumen
Washboard: check
Bucket Bass: check
Spoons: check
 
Now, where did I leave that jews harp?

Vangelis would be proud of you!
 
Try to find the teaspoons in EVERY single album of his ... it's fun!