Sunday, April 27, 2014

Andrew Weathers - 140427 - Music Manumit Podcast

Andrew Weathers



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In this episode:
We talk with musician Andrew Weathers

Here are Doug's notes from the interview.



Doug had technical difficulties starting off...

Part of the reason why we have a different show notes format this time, but we won’t bore you with more meta-discussion


https://andrewweathers.bandcamp.com/

Punk rock to ambient noise to electronica was natural progression


Andrew Weathers Ensemble

loose grouping

started with solo laptop shows...but there were others

group scattered around the country


Andrew Weathers



Perreault is cellist

Homonymns: http://weathersperreault.bandcamp.com/album/since-sense



Nightlight: http://www.nightlightclub.com/


What’s perception of music community in California?

bigger cities


LIVE SETUP?

Electric guitar with pedal these days with synth.

No Ableton Live!


ORGANIZATION: OVERLAP?

Hack Nights


MORE ABOUT OVERLAP!

Not working full time there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Willits


FULL SPECTRUM RECORDS?

Andrew Moreno is a guitarist and photographer in Raleigh, NC


HOW DID YOU GET EXPOSED TO CC?

Andrew is 25, so has lived with the Internet

Napster had already come and gone


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Laporte


MUSIC ECONOMICS?

http://www.musicmanumit.com/2013/05/c-reider-130526-music-manumit-podcast.html

works for music non-profit during day.

mastering, selling recordings, etc.

capitalism isn’t a thing that works.

no more than 100 people at a time at shows


MUSIC NON-PROFIT?

Other minds ← been around for 20 years

annual festival


HOW DO YOU MAKE MONEY?

Little tiny bits!


MORE CONTENT-ID DISCUSSION


WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS YOU ARE MOST PROUD OF?

“What Happens When We Stop?” https://andrewweathers.bandcamp.com/album/what-happens-when-we-stop ← everyone involved in this record! Recorded in NC and in Oakland. Specifically…

Recorded At:

Solotechne Studios, Asheville, NC,

Tanaka Household, Chapel Hill, NC

Center For Contemporary Music, Oakland, CA

Solo Teatro, Oakland, CA

Fairly Relaxed Tessellating Brainsight Apartment, Oakland, CA

Perreault Household, Reston, VA ← Eric but Andrew was there too!

The Blue House, Iowa City, IA ← Kyle


WHAT DO YOU DO YOUR EDITING ON?

scattered workflow!

Ableton incredible but it can do everything! Why make it easy! ;)

Repper, Ripper? Not sure.


Apparently, evolvement is a word http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/evolvement



CROWDFUNDING?

“Safe way” is both benefit and bad thing

Andrew hasn’t done it.

Andrew shoots it down!

Andrew says it could be the way of the future.

Andrew likes DIY

Breakdown of what they are doing. $1500 to buy van.

http://www.craigslistjoe.com/

The beauty of rock and roll!

Just sleep on people floor!


ReZound is what Doug was thinking about!

http://rezound.sourceforge.net/


PRO: Look what she achieved

CON: Late night commercial.


Pledge Music ← for albums!

http://www.pledgemusic.com/


WHO SHOULD WE INTERVIEW?

Ted Ladearas, Oo-ray - https://soundcloud.com/ooray

Seth Chrisman, Wydeskye

Jay Bodly, https://soundcloud.com/sunhammer

Sarah Davache, https://soundcloud.com/sarahdavachi


Most interesting pop music coming from people that have background in experimental music


Marcus Rubio - http://marcusrubio.bandcamp.com/


ANYTHING WE MISSED?

We are thorough! Go us!