DJ SCOTCH EGG

Abstract, Surreal, Unique...

Just a few words to describe this innovative character in the music industry, he came in to explain his work and gave us many references to his influences over his career.

His album - KFC Whore, was written and produced during a period in his life where he ate KFC for a week, Mmmmmm...Greasy....

This album has a very simliar concept to the music of DJ Shitmat:




This music has a very loud and "bassy" influence, using simplicity and limited sampling is also a key factor to this genre. Such artists as Bach, Wendy Carlos, Steve Reich, Moon Dog and John Cage all influence the music of Scotch Egg, essentially working on the idea of minimilism and repetition.

As you can see from the previous scotch egg post, Scotch Egg uses games-boys (which have only 4 layers to work with) immediately toying on the idea of minimilistic sound. Using these samples from a game boy, he puts them into software such as Ableton Live and Nano Live to produce a completely unique sound.

This idea of minimilism can be applied to visuals, for example using limited components to create a visual image. It would interesting to use say only 4 colours or 4 components within the creation of an image, reminding me off Chris Kelly's piece for Design for interaction e.g. using only 4 colours in the random patterns sequence creating in Flash.

Minimilism and simplicity isn't all DJ Scotch Egg is about, Cutting up music and re-arranging them is also a key area of Scotch Egg's music. For example simliar musicians such as the Naked City:





As you can see this unstructured genre of music was a heavy influence to some ofScotch Egg's music, this can be seen via his myspace.com/djscotchegg.



One of the orginal cut-up musicians is Karlheiz Stockhausen...



Other influences to SCotch Egg is based within the film industry (relevant to my dissertation), for example films such as "Clockwork Orange" and "Blade Runner" and "the Shining and "Escape from New York" .


All these films have famous and emotionally powerful soundtracks, affecting emotion is something that I always try to do as a DJ. After all creating an atmosphere and reaction form an audience is arguably one of the most important factors to being a succesful DJ. Provoke emotion, give the audience a euphoric feeling...

END OF YEAR EXHIBITON - A VISUAL / AUDIO DJ PIECE

Through this discussion and chatting with DJ scotch egg afterwards, I am now considering a final end of year piece for the exhibition involving audio mixing and visual Djing, this is definately something I can see working after looking or should I say, listening to Scotch Egg.

As a Dj and producer I am also working with audio, as a designer I am always working with visuals so it would be interesting to see how these can be played around with and brought togeher.

It would be nice to create abstract music with abstract visuals with the sound affecting visual and vice versa, like like Semi-Conductor. The main idea being to create a completely orignal emotionally provoking style.