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| Andy Cohen |
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We talk with musician Andy Cohen
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https://andyg.co/hen/
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Andy_G_Cohen/
He contributes to https://www.reddit.com/r/ccmusic/ (that’s how we found him!)
https://soundcloud.com/andycohen
Tell us about your music and tell us what’s new!
originally from CT...in Germany for 4 years
Delaware
Germany because gf now wife
electrical engineering background
musical beginnings?
8 or 9
self-taught guitar player
2014 internet presence started
was in band that gigged before that
old demos...might as well get them out
What drew you to Creative Commons?
scramby eggs...throw away: Andy_G_Cohen_-_08_-_Scramby_Eggs -- hundreds of plays!
lots of new tracks
FMA 100+k listens!
videos often go in directions Andy wouldn’t have seen
tech and music are both creative.
likes anonymity, but
recommended to soundcloud by old friend
last week: mos-emvy-ii-160117-music-manumit-podcast
ccmixter?
4 or 5 tracks up on ccmixter: http://ccmixter.org/people/andycohen
lyrics?
zekter
loudness wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness band
studio?
Yes!
fire studio project...2010 (hardware)
moving and moving!
Logic Pro
there’s also http://digitalcombustion.com/content/fire-studio-5
was a Linux user
fruity loops!
ubuntu-studio-150816-music-manumit
ProTools and proprietary stuff
shut stuff off
turn it on and it works
avlinux-130120-music-manumit-podcast
logic pro so don’t want to fiddle
videos?
scramby eggs, so many baking videos
once or month he checks
really well shot video
Do you tour?
nope!
albums?
Layers is ideas from 1999 but came together for FMA
less mature than more recent stuff
three more tracks for Through the Lens...maybe in March
Through the Lens more an album
people are emailing because you are doing stuff!
11 tracks out since October!
“try having that conversation with 6 guys”
lower commitment/burden
Is there anything else you would like to say/tell us about?
still working on Through the Lens
Closing track: Dont_You_Think_Its_Time - CC BY
most recent, which is why he chose it! One of his favorites, but videos aren’t picking it up just yet.
