The Artist Formerly Known As Dave House...
...will now be known as
The Reverse Engineer
No longer will there be confusion about me and the other Dave House.
If you do the Last.fm thing, check out my profile: click here. And make sure you listen to me loads and tag me and post comments and so on, so my rating goes up and ting.
Also, be my friend on MySpace* (profile will be pimped soon and loaded with audio goodies). click here.
I have new tunes to download on my music website, too: www.dhouse.co.uk.
Any thoughts on the new name are welcome too!
* My Big Fun MySpace Pun Log:
Mice Pace (credited to the amusingly named bumpoowilly
Funk on My Space (credited to Karen)
posted by Dave @ 4:20 PM
6 comments
6 Comments:
Loving the tune on Last FM. But I am confused about the Reverse Engineer?
Are we talking 'Deconstruction'? Like a Post-modern music maker for the Ipod generation?
Is it a statement about technology? Do you see yourself more as a constructor of musicical forms rather than artistic creation?
I get the glich connection.. is that how you see what ou do? Reverse Engineering of sounds? Of moments?
Thinking of that...I have just accidently mixed your Dappled Tune with the opening sequence from the TV show Heroes... I love lyrics... have you ever thought about over laying some?
Anyway... Name changes must be a mission... Easy now.
Glad you like the tune.
As for the new name, it came after many weeks of pondering and getting nowhere! The Reverse Engineer was the one that sat best with me. It came about cos i said to phil my plan is to reverse engineer my existing tunes so i can work out the best way to eventually play them live. I liked the phrase and any subsequent, additional appropriateness is merely a happy accident! (like lots of my music! arf).
So, pondering on the semantics of it, i guess its not really a statement about technology, although it does reflect the fact that i use electronic stuff as instruments. Deconstruction comes into it to a degree.
Its certainly not supposed to suggest a lack of creativity or artistry, but my approach to making music is quite construction-like. Arranging layers and blocks of sound, etc. I definitely 'build' tunes.
Reverse engineering of sounds and moments is spot on. Everything i make these days is from field recordings which i recontextualise, tweak and fuck around with til sometimes they're entirely new noises. Its definitely about the moment - theres so much there in the background as well as the foreground of the sounds as i dont worry about editing out 'mistakes' or 'waste'. So i use, say, a sample of someone busking in town, but it ends up being turned on its head and the origins and so on are more ambiguous and mixed up. Its not just someone busking at 15:34 on a sunny saturday. The sounds that make up the sample weave into the other sounds in the tune and create entirely new narratives and possibilities. People hear shit in my tunes that i have never heard, just cos of the way different ears interpret the interplay of sounds in the mix.
I dunno how to explain it really, the name just seems to fit my musical aesthetic, if that makes sense.
Anyway, if engineering doesnt suggest creativity, surely reverse engineering, ie the opposite, does?!
And you're right, names are a mission indeed...
oh yeah, lyrics!
Um, well, yeah. Would be nice wouldnt it. I've tried in the past but rarely satisfacorily. Check the remix i did of my mates tune 'we will never let you down', that one worked. http://www.carbonbaseddesign.co.uk/dhouse/bedlam.html (track 4)
I'm collaborating with Georgie on a few things at the mo so no doubt they'll have lyrics. Im also doing the engineering/production thang for the recordings of her band! Should be interesting.
Reverse engineering (RE) is the process of discovering the technological principles of a device or object or system through analysis of its structure, function and operation. It often involves taking something (e.g. a mechanical device, an electronic component, a software program) apart and analyzing its workings in detail, usually to try to make a new device or program that does the same thing without copying anything from the original. The verb form is to reverse engineer.
In the United States and many other countries, even if an artifact or process is protected by trade secrets, reverse-engineering the artifact or process is often lawful as long as it is obtained legitimately. Patents, on the other hand, need a public disclosure of an invention, and therefore patented items do not necessarily have to be reverse engineered to be studied. One common motivation of reverse engineers is to determine whether a competitor's product contains patent infringements or copyright infringements.
So to RE an artifact is a good way of getting around the intellectual copyright aspect. Back to the music, does Dave therefore RE sounds and moments in his life, which he then takes apart to understand other aspects, and thus present those aspects?
It all sounds a bit deconstructionist to me... back to the post-modern agenda! ;)
yes!
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