Hello Blog, my name is Narayan. I make experimental music in Cincinnati, Ohio with mixed mediums and strange hardware under the name "S.P.R.Y.". I love to devour information. In fact, I have been doing it for so long that I have accumulated nearly a lifetime of useless information in just 27 years. My intention with this blog is to give the world a window into my life and experiences as a musician, performer, producer, and human being in Cincinnati or wherever else this journey takes me and to use this as a platform to meet and communicate with the interwebosphere. They say the first rule of starting a blog is to know what you're going to blog about. Oops. Enter stream of consciousness!
For the last year I have been making music with my original Gameboys using Little Sound DJ (LSDJ). It hasn't been for very long all in all, but it has been some of the most rewarding music making experience I've had yet. It has triggered somewhat of an (r)evolution in the way I approach music in general. I've been doing this music thing for a long time I guess. Music has pretty much always been a part of my life. Some of my earliest memories are having Mozarts Requiem playing through the halls of our house when I was only a few years old. I did the school band things playing trumpet through much of my schooling, stopping only after 3 semesters in college. I learned how to write songs, play guitar and sing doing the high school band thing (with some success locally) from 1999 to 2004ish with Bluepoint. We put out a 16 track album "Rhythmically Impaired" which had a launch run of 200 copies we printed out ourselves and labeled with markers in my friends basement. To my own astonishment, I still run into people from my home town and area who still have our shirts or cds. When that band met its inevitable demise, I moved on to recording my own music, which then evolved into writing my own music in computers. By 2010, I had eventually created enough material to make my own album "Impetuous Motion" which I released for free on the internet. Then one fateful day someone showed me that you could make music with a gameboy, and everything changed.
Since early 2011, I find myself and many of my friends and acquaintances in Cincinnati and around the world to be developing an interconnectedness through (the internet and) our mutual fascination with taking the toys and technology of the past and making beautiful, horrifying, reminiscent and all together new things with them. This, I believe is a good thing. I think it might even be better than I know it is or anyone knows it is yet. More on this some other time..
If you are reading this blog (now or any time in the future) and find anything I say to be interesting, dull, offensive, outlandish, fascinating, horrifying or whatever else you guys are feeling, tell me! If you have ideas for future topics you would like to hear about, have questions to ask me or have ideas to add to anything I've talked about, tell me that too. I'm hoping to post topic specific entries soon including updates on the Cincinnati chiptunes scene, posts about my own music and approach to making music, and perhaps the odd musing on life/the universe/everything. Also, I'm not one of those netspace geniuses that bleeds binary and dreams in HTML, so I'll likely evolve in that respect too as I get used to the interface. As for the future of this blog, I'm going to leave that undecided for now.
Cheers!
S.P.R.Y.
S.P.R.Y.
