The Conventional Bio of Clint Rule

bio

I am a 16 year-old who is very interested in music, especially electronica, and the essence that it is. I have been making music of the techno genre for about a year and a half, and I plan to continue the habit.

I live in a small town in western Oklahoma which is somewhat mundane, but I strive to use it's red-dirt beauty for my musical influences. I have lived here my whole life, and the population hasn't changed much except for a minimal increase (pop. = about 14,000). Techno music or any of its sub-genres are, for the most part unheard of, but my friends and peers are generally supportive of my music-making even though they haven't a clue what it is that I am doing--maybe I like it like that.

music

I can't remember exactly when I began actually creating techno music , but I have been at it for about, as I said earlier, a year and a half or so...

My infatuation with the electronic genre begin one fateful friday night. I was slumped over in my living room recliner and surfing the channels--it was a little after midnight. I came across a show on MTV called AMP. You may have seen this Godsend of a TV program before--it's the one with the weird videos. That was my first impression, and, just as I was about to flip the channel, Daft Punk's "Around the World" appeared on the screen. After hearing that song, I was hooked, and I bought the Daft Punk CD the next chance I had.

My taste has eveolved some since that video though, since I am more familiar with electronica and have travled deeper into into the realms of its sub-genres. I have moved more to a serious--not saying that Daft Punk doesn't have some "serious grooves"--feel of music. I have developed a liking for the ambient and trance divisions. I still like to listen to the faster up-beat styles, but, on my free time, I can be found (heard) listening to such artists as Aphex Twin, Rabbit in the Moon, Juno Reactor, Single Cell Orchestra, and many other similar artsits.

My music stylings have evolved along with my taste. If you listen to the songs in the archives, you'll notice that my songs were much more daft and "sugary." I have now started to work for a definite signature sound that is more comlpex and demands more of my msuical knowledge in the harmonies, chords, and rhythms.

gear

I began "writing" music through the use of two simple, yet somewhat effective software programs: Stienberg's RB-338 (ReBirth) and a shareware version of Cool Edit '96. I feel that I must feed credit in to the location in which credit is due; a good friend of mine, Jake Spencer, showed me the "light" of ReBirth on a fateful day on which I discovered what it was that made the magical noises of electronica. Thank you, Jake.

I made a couple of songs with those programs and then continued to discover more and more programs through the use of the internet. One of my main sites was dancetech.com. If you are a musician, I reccomend this site to you. There are some more helpful site listed in my links section.

The more songs I made, the better I got. That is when I decided it was time to step it up a big notch and purchase a real piece of gear. I asked around and was told that the Roland MC-303 is a good piece of equipment for an ameteur artist. I bought one over the internet as soon as I saved up the money. Although many people disagree with the MC-303, I find myself perfectly content with its options.

My music has progressed greatly since the purchase of the MC-303. I also have a crummy Casio CTK-51 keyboard which I use simly for the MIDI capabilities. The rest of my gear is just stuff that I jiggy-rig out of electronic junk laying around my house.

Be sure and check out the news section of my site for information on history in the making