Age : 30
Location : Albuquerque, NM
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CD?  Check out the releases link.

Essentially, I consider myself the anti-art. Largely uncaring for what is the most commercially viable music out there. I just kind of create at will...A song grows into what it's supposed to be by itself... might take a few iterations, but I find the serendipitous way I make music to be almost satisfying in itself.


Two Favorite pieces of mine recently are Gull Wings and Method Killer.

note:I wish I had enough time to return all the reviews I get. I genuinely appreciate all of you that stop by to listen, but the current course of my life means I don't have nearly the time to review or produce music as I'd like. I hope everyone understands.

Can't forget the fact: I am a multiple.

"Behold the monster with the pointed tail,
Who cleaves the hills, and breaketh walls and weapons,
Behold him who infecteth all the world."
Dante's Inferno, XVII:1-3

The name "Manoptic" and the Manoptic Logo are trademarks of Pedro Bonano.

 

 

I didn't get much beyond listening to music until I reached high school. I joined band probably out of boredom more than anything else. So I picked up the trumpet. Though it was limited, I did have some natural aptitude.

Graduation kind of forced me to put the instrument aside. I just wasn't able to keep up with it (as it wasn't my major in college). Some new software I had bought for my computer came with a demo for Mixman. Interestingly enough, I ignored the demo for months. Out of curiosity, I started searching through diskettes and CDs to gain a mental inventory of what I had around. I found the Mixman demo and was suddenly hooked. I think this was sometime in 1997/1998.

Since then I have followed numerous random phases in the way I make music (changing software and styles on a whim). I moved from Mixman to Mixman Pro to Acid to Fruityloops to Reason back to FLStudio then to a combo of FL and Reason. FLStudio is my primary platform. I released my first CD "rabies" a few years ago. It didn't matter. I currently have "[undefined]" for sale and it matters twice as much as the first CD did.

 

 

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I'd say I don't have much of a specific musical style at all...what's born is born. I make music *I* like that no one listens to.

I think the music I make tends to have a kind of cinematic quality. This has a lot to do with the fact that I use some of it as mood motivators for when I'm writing. The amount music I haven't uploaded is almost ridiculous. An important element to my music is that I try to program a lot of it. While I don't shy away from using (in particular, TORTURING)  loops, I try to program elements of every song in hopes of making myself a better Music constructionist. I don't compose or write songs, I build them. On top of all of this, I often use an idea I like to call "slender music" or "slenderism". The idea is that it's more lush that minimal styles but less complicated than some of the fair you find out there. Often times this leads to what is plain old repetition. But when I consider the fact that most of commercially available music is a repetition of a couple of bits and pieces, I figure I'm no worse.

 

 

Crystal Method • Prodigy • Goldie • Hive • Photek • Metallica • Tool • Led Zeppelin • Billie Holiday • Plastikman • Dieselboy • Amon Tobin • Miles Davis • T. Blanchard • W. Marsalis • Pantera • Brian Eno • etc... • • • Just about anything that feels good when I listen to it... [AP Friends & Influences in no particular order] su3-ject, Kaileb Preston, bc radio, nick card, King Tut, Bex, Trendsetter, a:11thecorporati, Dj Kenneth A.

 

 

FLStudio. Reason. Vegas Video. Reaktor.

 

 

Collaboration with me is a rare thing. Mostly, I'm just too keyed into my own schedule to be convenient for others. BUT...



=USE OF MUSIC========================== ============================== =======
After watching and thinking about Larry Lessig's talk at TED last year (find it here: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/i d/187)  I've decided to make this simple announcement that no one else will care about:

I'm making available to you, my AP wiener friends, the following right to my music: you make sample from any of my original music and use those samples in your own creations.

Here are the conditions:
1. Non-commercial use only.
2. The piece you create must be posted to AP and only AP.
3. Provide credit in, at least, the meta-data of the song file -- including which track you sampled from.
4. Drop me a line letting me know what you've done with it.
5. You agree to allow me to create a package that includes the original tune + your mixes for FREE distribution. (it's not guaranteed I'll do this, I just want to be able to if I find some cool mixes -- and yes you will receive credit for the new track, so i don't sweat that I'm going to hijack it.)
6. Do not sample from songs I have remixed for other artists, since ultimately, it wasn't my song to begin with.

I'm not providing stems for the music, moreover, I'm curious to see what people do with what's already there.