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"The music", people speak such lofty ideals of what "the music" is. Maybe "the music" is legendary nights at certain clubs with certain djs, and people deluding themselves on substances to make them think its better than it actually is. This is the icon of the electronic music scene, well the old one. This music industry has until now existed for itself, and its own hype. Gone are the days of these lofty ideals, the industry standards, the million dollar djs. There is a revolution already underway if your not aware.
Its a quiet one right now though for one of the founders of this new sonic revolt. Peter Martin keeps a simple existance to himself, with his few friends, and lives just for the creation of music. Peter comes from a simple background raised in small town northeastern America; his father a carpenter, his mother a briliant scientist. Both his mother and father saw the music in Peter at a young age and his mother bought him his first toy keyboard at 6 to which he started writing his own simple composistions on. At the age of 13 he began formal music training with violin, moved to advanced music theory at age 16, and began writing a small symphony (in honor to his late grandfather Peter Martin I) for a full string orchestra at the young age of 18. At this same time he was a strong arm in one of the best American high school symphony orchestras. While attending his rural American high school, he was attending college music classes, and was on par with some students 10 years his senior. His college years consisted of more advanced composition, theory, ear training, piano, and some choir. He likes to say he can sing like a professional, but doesn't have the genes for it. Not unfamilar to hard work Peter kept high marks in college, music skills sharp, and usualy worked 2 jobs all at the same time.
Lets fast foward to the present, and Peter is now on the heels of some of the already established "producers". His self taught knowledge on sonics could fill a text book, but he still doesn't feel its worth writing any books about, yet...
The music has almost always been a given to him, but the sonic control, the science of sound has eluded him in his mind until now. Peter has been experimenting with new technics in sonics and high fidelic quality with digital audio. He has never been pleased with "todays sound" of music.It was then his discovery with 50s jazz recordings that opened up a whole new meaning with how sound is captured to a medium. Peter wasn't just impressed with the shier mastery of the performances, but the sonic quality... short of divine.
Comparing so many of his favorite electronic music pieces and not one had "that sound". Infact it can be prooven that the sonic quality in music recordings has been decreasing overall the past 20 years. He aims to change that, but not change the industry, or make big strides in trying to proove his worth to people. He just wants his music to physically sound as soothing as the melodies he creates. Knowing there is much more hard work ahead won't change his obsession about wanting to make it better. Why? So everyone can enjoy it more, life is difficult enough.
"Look to the past, move foward, start a revolution."
Peter P. Martin II
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