![]() He also became a huge fan of Grimes after I played him Visions and told him the whole thing was recorded in Garageband. A whole new language that other players could understand! A revelation! Then I learned how to play what I had written, dreamt. I sent my friend Mike Atkinson the MIDI scores and he did some cleaning up and printed them out. That song became “Marrow.”īecause I was not tied to my human, physical, muscular limitations (hands like to go here, ears like to hear this) I was able to make music that was smarter than I am. Like a facsimile of a facsimile of music. Just me drawing notes, one by one, until they sounded how they should sound. I have a precise memory of sitting in a hotel room in December of 2007 at Charles De Gaulle, absentmindedly drawing notes in on GarageBand via my laptop. Vincent drew a lot of her album Actor in Garageband: To get him interested in other kinds of music, I told him about how St. Grandma gave the 5-year-old my old Ghostbusters shirt so I played him the theme song for the first time in the car and he came home and recorded a cover in Garageband ? /suAFqiIAzY (“Christmasbahn,” “Trans Polar Express,” etc.) That was around the time he learned how to sample while looking for sleigh bells.Įventually, I built us a little plug-and-play studio so we could record together with my good microphones and instruments. At my suggestion, he recorded Christmas versions of Kraftwerk songs. He came in one day after quiet time with this totally cool and insane version of “Autobahn.” Then he moved into parody. ![]() He has recorded 100s of songs. He started out, like most songwriters, covering songs by bands he likes. (He would spend way more if we didn’t limit his screen time, and we have to, because if we don’t he gets that weird zombie recording glaze in his eyes. He spends, on average, at least an hour a day in Garageband. One afternoon a few years ago when we were bored, I showed my son Owen (now 6) how to make simple tracks on his little iPad mini, and ever since then, he’s been completely obsessed with the program. ![]() I could then export them and put them on my new iPod, which seemed insanely futuristic and cool. I’ve spent hundreds of hours in the program - when I lived in England in 2004, I bought a USB MIDI controller so I could record tracks in my tiny little apartment on my new 12 inch Powerbook. It’s so accessible and ubiquitous now, it’s easy to take for granted just how amazing a piece of software it really is. Garageband turned 15 yesterday. It was introduced at Macworld by Steve Jobs in January 2004. ![]()
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