Samurai Sorcerers
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3/23/2006 3:57:37 AM
What I have to say about Audio Rage and our music...
What I have to say about Audio Rage and our music...
Current mood: creative
Category: Music
The computer, creative artist, musician and one-man "virtual" garage band! Student @ City College of San Francisco, Skyline College foregoing a BA career major in Photography and Music. Makes a rock & roll comeback in 2006 with "the Chronicles of Revenge!" The follow-up album to "Blizzard of Sound" and the most anticipated music to come out of Patrick Lew and his one-man "virtual" garage band and computer music project Samurai Sorcerers!
Audio Rage was my garage band after the high school band I used to play guitar in with my Wallenberg friends, Samurai Sorcerers, broke up because of our different directions in life and our personalities. The cool thing about Audio Rage is I'm the CEO and the captain of the band. I could tinker for hours on my PC computer, using MIDI sequencing (software instrumentation) and hooking up the electronic keyboards on my PC playing the shit out of tools. Back in the day, I was very naive and I couldn't play guitar and instruments as well as the other bandmates I had in the local garage bands I used to play in. I used to get tons of shit because of that, but now after a few years ago I discovered the "greatness" of digital music recording and I loved it!
I virtually replaced all the members of the crew to gain extra freedom by playing in Audio Rage. That's a great thing, man! But I got this idea for the bandname because I was listening to lots of heavy metal and punk music, nihilistic stuff, on my MP3 player which I listen to everyday when I go out of the house and stuff. That gave the birth of the concept AUDIO RAGE. But since some people are accusing me of abandoning my rock & roll roots, which was playing in bands the old-fashioned ensmeble way (i.e. two guitars, bass and drums) and because some purists I know fear this new technological era and shit like Y2K, they don't get what I'm trying to pull off. But yeah, I am a 21st century guy and I'm not living my life in the past anymore.
The hardest thing about Audio Rage playing a gig somewhere back and forth is having to replicate the sounds of music from a computer and other state-of-the-art technology shit like virtual guitars. I've been heavily into computers since 2004 and I would use this box to chat with my friends on AIM or MySpace. I don't get why some people fear this new technological digital era were entering in. Sure back in the day, we had to meet our girlfriends through newspaper ads and shit...But we now live in the year 2006 dude. Try and assimilate into this new era. But I really feel connected towards teenagers and twenty-somethings who are into computers and stuff like that.
Well I've been playing guitar since I got a guitar rig at Haight-Ashbury's music shop at 14. That's been told by me so many god damn fucking times. So onto making music with MIDI and the story about that. But onto the playing gigs with computer music thing, I guess I can get others to play live by placing an ad on Craigslist or something whenever I play a show. Because it is really hard to play live with just a computer and swapping spots with a Moog keyboard. So that's pretty much like going to those rave parties and shit where the DJ spins the turntable with that techno music. I don't really believe in the concept of a traditional "back to our roots" rock band in Audio Rage, but I think I might need that when performing a gig live or whatever. Because it is almost impossible to replicate the music off Abode Audition v1.5 and etc to a small crowd of HOT White girls who wear Patrick Lew and Audio Rage t-shirts in a club and stuff.
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