lane arndt aka the specialest
multifarious musical adventures through modernity and beyond
2
songs
31
plays
the other side the other side
got a new tenor banjo, wrote a new song. recorded it at home, played, sang and programmed everything in two days.
I am not so much a band, although i am a part of several. I am a multi-faceted instrumentalist, arranger, producer. I have a background in jazz music and very esoteric higher musical education. Producing songs/records is my favourite outlet for creative expression.
What you might typically find here is not just my own solo adventures in music but my collaborations with other folks as well.
You may hear songs and you may hear instrumentals and you may hear others' voices but you will always hear music.Band/artist history
Most likely born in edmonton alberta in canada, c. 1971, education pursued across three canadian provinces between 1990-97 with a focus on music performance and theory throughout; raised well outside of the church-based infrastructure of conservative late 20th C. northern alberta, married in ontario c. 1997 and divorced in 2003, however a separation prior to this is most likely evident in his early return form the ‘eastern sojourns’. (Rumbetica and Fintch et al, 2001 pg. 98) The aesthetic disparity typical of late 20th/early 21st C. postmodern electronicisms make the cataloging of the composer-performers works a near-thankless cause for even the most assiduous scholar; however, digital ‘watermarking’ has now made it possible to trace the collected works, samples, AIFFs, etceteras--confirmed and questioned alike--back to a single 2nd generation iBook licensed to proxyboy, a well known regional tag for Lane Arndt.
Resistant to the scholarly task of definition through categorization, the composers output must be taken for what it is: equal parts experimental ethos and structural pathos within a framework of tones and frequencies, leaving none wanting for any thing more than a hint of identity in the futile search for unity of form and function; the postmodern anti-form of openness. As a guitar player l.a. trades in a type of fluent free associations, at times attempting to navigate the slippery slope of the outside/straight-ahead callosum. Functioning at erratic intervals as either (or both) ‘the Specialest’ and ‘cUPS’, all levels of sonic disparity are juxtaposed in his abstract experimental approach to electronics.Have you performed in front of an audience?yes, often, i love it.
Your musical influences
all good music: j.s. bach; j.brahms; mahler; schoenberg; ives; coltrane, elvin jones, eric dolphy, fennesz all my amazing colleagues in edmonton and around the worldaround the world: krista hartman, aa sound system, chris bartos, james carson etc.What equipment do you use?
gibson, burs, fender amps, mac (iBook and iMac G5) pro tools, reaosn and liveAnything else?
music is the highest form of artistic expression because it is the most abstract. or something like that acording to Schopenhauer.
music is the muse is the muse is the music.
edmonton,
Canada
ID
511566
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