DRKRN
DRKRN is an electronic music project that spans many styles. From industrial to space to trance to combinations of these styles.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
In 2001 I started having silly little random noise-trance jam-sessions with a friend of mine who was a pianist/keyboardist. We made a few fairly unstructured ambient pieces, and eventually a melodic one which I still consider to be the slowest moving song I have ever made.
In 2002, after taking a course in electronic music, I started making more melodic pieces, which for the most part sounded like video-game music because of the fairly simple sythesizers and sequencer software I was using at the time.
Later, in 2003 I got better software, and better inspiration and started making more sophisticated electronic music. I started working on a compilation of songs, with the first being "Dypole", a song in which the melody relies heavily upon the interfereing of two saw-wave synths in rhythm. Which as it turned out, worked extremely well. Since then I've been refining my music's style which is rooted in late 1970's space music, which was defined by the characteristicly intricate sounds of analog synthesizers. However, there are also strong industrial/grunge techno influences in there too.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
I don't play live, I sort-of... Can't. I do everything on the computer and with a bunch of equipment. I don't really have enough portable equipment to DJ either.
Your musical influences
Boards of Canada, Tycho, Delia Gonzales & Gavin Russom, Partido Interior, VNV Nation
What equipment do you use?
Roland/Boss BR532 mixing/recording unit
A laptop PC and desktop PC with sequencing software
A fairly generic (and very old) Casio keyboard with MIDI-interface
