Live Music interview With The Composer Pete Swinton From London UK

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Question One

How did you start making electronic music ?

Ans :- In 1977 when I was 16 I went to visit some of my older brother's

friends in South West London. They had a very large semi-modular

Korg synth, I don't know what model. After smoking a lot of ganja

everyone slowly left the room. I went over to the Korg and turned

it on. Then suddenly a whole new world was opened to me. I had

already heard some Tangerine Dream albums and I made the con-

nection between them and the synth. I have no idea how long I ex-

perimented with it, but I remember changing patch cables. The

longer I played with it, the higher I got. Heaven. I didn't get to

touch another synth until 10 years later, when I was recording

some guitar for the soundtrack of an independent film's OST.

So that was in 1987 when I was 26. After I had done my parts,

I saw a synth and asked if I could play it, so some of my play-

was recorded for the film. Then go forward to around 2011,

when I was 50. I bought a synth 2nd hand, I can't even remember

what make it was. I experimented with it. And used it to record

a small part of a dub reggae album I was making with my eldest

son. When I left the band, Pillars Of Dub, that we formed, after

touring around England, I began a serious mad shopping spree,

and bought about £5,000 worth of synths, drum machines, seq-

uencers, etc. So Srigala was born. The Indonesian word for wolf.

Question Two

What made you want to become a musician ?

Ans :- When I was 5, I was confined to bed for a week with some child-

hood illness. My parents gave me a little transistor radio. I found

2 stations that I liked, Radio Caroline and Radio Luxembourg.

Both were pirate stations broadcasting from the English / French

Channel on ships. There were no ads. This was in 1966. I grew

to love rock music and some of the best chart music. Next, when

I was 8, at a new school I had a teacher who played the acoustic

guitar. I asked my parents for one so I could learn to play the

songs I loved. They refused and gave me a recorder and told me

to learn to read music. I didn't. Then when I was 15 in 1976 they

relented and bought me an electric guitar. It was a copy of a

Gibson SG, black and purple. And a 5 watt amp. I had a few

lessons and then quit. I just had friends who taught me chords,

and slowly I learned to play .

Question Three

What inspires me, and what makes me want to keep

producing music ?

Ans :- What inspires me is an easy question to answer and part 2 of the

question is answered in part one. It's very simple, I have an unlim-

ited number of sounds and combination of sounds that I can make.

That in itself is the answer. Another answer is, I am swimming

in the rich and fertile waters of my imagination. And that too is un-

limited. I never get bored or run out of ideas for the albums that

I produce. A small part of my inspiration also comes from the

philosophy and literature that I have read and studied. I am not

influenced by anyone's music. I work in a vacuum. I am the source

of my inspiration .

Question Four

Who is my favorite artists or people I look up to

in the industry ?

Ans :- As most likely with all of us, this changes as the years go by.

We get tired of one artist and then discover another, or a new album

by an artist we like. So if I name some artists who I like, it may

change tomorrow. Never the less I will name some names in no

order of preference and obviously not their complete discography :

Sigur Ros, The Gun Club, Blurt, Gorecki, Bjork, Joni Mitchell,

Palestrina, Weather Report, Eric Dolphy, Steve Lacy, Annette

Peacock and Paul Bley, Nick Drake, Jimi Hendrix, Fela Kuti,

The Gladiators, John Renbourne, Beethoven, Ali Farka Toure,

Ismael Lo, Big Youth, U-Roy, Pablo Gad, I-Roy, Stephen Marley,

Dillinger, Pablo Moses, King Tubby, Scientist, Lee Scratch Perry,

Vivian Jackson, Prince Far-I, Dub Syndicate, African Head Charge,

Stiff Little Fingers, William Basinski, Ralf Towner, Eberhard Weber,

Amon Tobin, Jeff Beck, John Martyn, Harold Budd, John Hassell,

Beck, that's enough for now, there are many more who I can't think

of right now.

Question Five

What’s the process you go through in finding the perfect tune? Did you study with courses, learn online or just experiment ?

Ans :- Just experiment .

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