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Electronic Music Artist
By Phillip T. Terry
Being an electronic music artist used to place one firmly in the Avant-garde, but nowadays more
people are making electric music than ever before. From Djs to synthesizer geeks, Midi composers to
indie rockers, playing electronic digital music is for all sorts of different people. The question is, is it for
you?
I never really considered myself an electronic music artist until recently. I was just sort of an
experimental musician. Some of the things that I messed with were electronic instruments, but I also
used a lot of acoustic stuff. I was as likely to pick up a guitar as a keyboard, an accordion as a
theremin. Still, as I progressed, I got more and more interested in digital music processing. You see,
nowadays it is much easier to make interesting electric effects by simulating them than by actually
recording them in the field. Electronic instruments have gotten so good and so sophisticated that you
can get pretty much any sound you want out of one. Of course, it isn't quite that simple. It requires
quite a bit of knowhow and programming savvy in some cases. Even so, most experimental musicians
– if they stick with it for long enough – End up as electronic music artists.
Of course, the electronic music artist scene is much different depending on what part of it you are in. If
you're an indie musician, the target audience is usually hipsters in their late teens through late 30s. If
you're a DJ,