Ambient Traveler
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Traveler is one man. Getting started late in life as an Ambient/Electronic musician, Traveler is a journey...always evolving and changing. From deliberate Ambient beats to soft drones and sweeping synth leads, there is always something different to find in each song. Feel free to listen and experience the music, it is well worth the journey.
Why this name?
Starting in 1986, I switched over to New Age music from classic rock. Not long after that, I heard an episode of Hearts of Space radio broadcast.....it was then I turned to Electronic and Ambient style music. Since then, I haven't touched a radio to hear music again. In the long run....it has been an evolving journey, a lone Traveler through music and time.
Do you play live?
No, most of the music you will hear is sometimes planned, but some is also improvisational. There is a lot of treaking in making the right sounds. It might be a possibility in the future.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
First off....MP3 format made music more user friendly and storable....it drove the computer industry to make larger hard drives. Sencondly, the internet gave artists and bands a place to be heard. The internet is both a curse and a blessing. A blessing to musicians such as I, but a curse to industry giants, because now they can no longer decide what you get to hear. This is a good thing mostly, now the world has more aceess to unlimited creativity and style....which were before crushed and ignored by the major industry as a whole.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
NO....No.....and hell no! I want no part of anyone what my style or music content is to be. I want to be free of schedules and deadlines for production, and to rely on creativity and inspiration.
I am a musician in the most purest form.....my music is free....I don't want money for it. I make for the pure joy of making it. If you enjoy my music, then I feel I have been paid in a most wealthy manner.
I am a musician in the most purest form.....my music is free....I don't want money for it. I make for the pure joy of making it. If you enjoy my music, then I feel I have been paid in a most wealthy manner.
Favorite spot?
Stevens Gap state park, site b-8, Lkae Broken Bow Oklahoma. Visit this spot and you will know why I chose it!
Equipment used:
PC with AMD processor, using Cubase CE, Reason 3.0, Mixing programs including Samplitude 7.0 and Magix Studio Pro 11. Keyboard is an E-MU Xboard X49e. All instuments are VST synths such as Synth 1, Superwave 8, Crystal Synth, MHC Space Synth and Vox Synth and the Wollo collection of VST's, Arpy, String Synth, Proteus X and others.