Or do make music in...
I'm less one to act on direct influences than follow on ideas that appeal to me or accept certain minor affectations via osmosis. I'll assemble a proper list when I figure out how to organise it, but for now, I'll keep to the maxim that brevity is the soul of wit:
John Cage. Yeah.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
Not quite; more often than not, it's quite epic in scale. Rather, I prefer to remain laconic when describing my own work, as I hope that it is capable of speaking for itself beyond the simplest gestures of title, presentation and so forth.
Well, currently my music is IDM experimental/ambient techno with an electro house and occasionally minimal undercurrent, so:
- Autechre
- Aphex Twin
- Monolake
- Pan Sonic
- Daft Punk
- Digitalism
- Justice
A Breeze from Hell
was amateur experimental techno mixed with wannabe rock, so Aphex Twin and Nine Inch Nails* .
edited 8th Apr '11 12:55:56 AM by Litis
I do make music but it rarely ends up sounding like I imagined it to or the actual influences I thought were behind them.
But I guess I'd say Frank Zappa mainly. Also Genesis... the early years that is. And uh, Gentle Giant is of course phenomenal when one considers arrangement for the rock band. Their music should be in a textbook or something in that regard.
'It's gonna rain!'My influences:
- The Beatles, particularly George Harrison
- Queen
- Tom Petty
- ACDC
- REM
- The Police
- Foo Fighters
- Weezer
- DJ Shadow
- DJ Krush
- Rjd2
- DJ Vadim
obligatory non-music answers used to annoy interviewers:
- explosions
- dada art
- flash animation
edited 8th Apr '11 1:48:58 PM by SpainSun
I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
- Sara Bareilles
- The Joy Formidable
- Holly Conlan
- Metric
- Kate Voegele
- Mates of State
- Allison Mosshart (The Kills or the Dead Weather)
- Ingrid Michaelson
- Jenny Lewis
- Joan Jett
- The Who
- The Clash
edited 9th Apr '11 2:42:12 PM by StoryofEverest
You wouldn't hit a girl, would you?drum influences (in no particular order):
- Chris Tsagakis
- Buddy Rich (of course)
- Chris Pennie
- Aaron Funk
- Gavin Harrison
- Akira Kawasaki
- Sean Reinert
- Bill Bruford
- Zach Hill
- Jon Theodore
- Beau Mc Kee
- Billy Cobham
- Moe Carlson
- Thomas Pridgen
I dunno about musical influences.
As a saxophonist I'm mainly influenced by Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Junior Walker, King Curtis and Lou Marini. I'm nowhere near as good as any of those guys, though.
I don't really know if anyone particularly influences my piano playing. I'm a pretty limited pianist (I was only really allowed to learn exam pieces for the better part of a decade, so I feel that skills are pretty stunted) and I can't improvise very well on the instrument or play it originally.
edited 24th Jul '11 11:25:14 AM by TheGloomer
Influences on the music I actually make on my own:
- Negativland
- Dan Deacon
- The Art Of Noise
- The Field
- TAS 1000
Influences of an imaginary band I will probably never start:
- The Minutemen
- Half Japanese
- Devo
- The Modern Lovers
- Shudder To Think
edited 10th Apr '11 3:59:04 PM by MikeK
All right, here's a condensed list of Fever Carpets influences, in (rough) chronological order:
- Dada
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Harry Partch
- LaMonte Young
- Alvin Lucier
- Pauline Oliveros
- Faust
- Brian Eno
- Cabaret Voltaire
- Nurse With Wound
- Half-Japanese
- Jandek
- Dome
- Coil
- Swans
- :zoviet*france:
- Bruce Gilbert
- Mirror
- Sunroof!
- The Olivia Tremor Control
- Prurient
And to (Untitled Track), with a similar scheme:
- Impressionism and Expressionism
- Samuel Barber
- John Lee Hooker
- Ornette Coleman
- The Velvet Underground
- The Incredible String Band
- Can
- Public Image Limited
- Sonic Youth
- Bitch Magnet
- Slint
- Polvo
- Bügsküll
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- Jackie-O Motherfucker
- The Gerbils
- Macha
- Angels Of Light
- Sufjan Stevens
- Animal Collective
- Akron/Family
- James Blackshaw
edited 15th Apr '11 9:13:31 PM by JHM
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.Seeing as I have been just a bit active in the music business locally for a while, I've been asked about my influences a couple times and funnily I wind up naming artists not really related to the genre that I would belong to.
I often refer to:
- Sade
- Björk
- Miles Davis
when talking about non-genre-related inspirations and
- Ice-T
- Wu-Tang Clan
- Jedi Mind Tricks
- Z-Ro
as genre-related inspirations.
Any gil drops from at least an inch above my wide open palm. Thanks in advance.Hmm as a musician my influences would be:
- The Beatles
- Black Sabbath
- Dream Theater
- The Eagles
- Eric Johnson
- Iron Maiden
- Joe Satriani
- Led Zeppelin
- Pearl Jam
- Rush
- Steve Vai
- X Japan
- DJ Shadow
- J Dilla
- cLOUDDEAD
- DJ Premier
- Aesop Rock
- Godspeed You Black Emperor
- Stars Of The Lid
- Brian Eno
- Plunderphonics
- Negativland

So assuming you decide to get into music, imagine you're being interviewed about this question or you need to take out an add and you want the bands who find you to know where you're coming from artistically. Who do you list as your musical influences?*
Mine would probably be...
Bands:
People (items within parenthesize explain respectable points in order)
edited 7th Apr '11 4:46:11 AM by Alucard