Philip Quinton
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About Philip Quinton
I started making music recordings at college, in 1992, aged 19. I was not a musician, I was a musically talentless entity with access to a computer, a keyboard, a sampler and a 16-track recording studio and I needed to create some soundtracks for my video productions. Nothing has really changed in the intervening decades. I am still using technology to fake music because I don’t have the discipline to learn anything properly though I did manage to fake being a bass player in some bands for a few years in my 20s which didn’t require computer technology, just a lot of time in a rehearsal room. Now I’m in my 50s and my music obsession has led to a vocational career in film, tv and radio sound but I am still occasionally asked to produce music by artists who need the experience and the tools that I’ve picked up over the years. And yes, like any good faker I am embracing the potential of AI to make my job easier. If AI can do it better than me then I’ll take that.
I started making music recordings at college, in 1992, aged 19. I was not a musician, I was a musically talentless entity with access to a computer, a keyboard, a sampler and a 16-track recording studio and I needed to create some soundtracks for my video productions. Nothing has really changed in the intervening decades. I am still using technology to fake music because I don’t have the discipline to learn anything properly though I did manage to fake being a bass player in some bands for a few years in my 20s which didn’t require computer technology, just a lot of time in a rehearsal room. Now I’m in my 50s and my music obsession has led to a vocational career in film, tv and radio sound but I am still occasionally asked to produce music by artists who need the experience and the tools that I’ve picked up over the years. And yes, like any good faker I am embracing the potential of AI to make my job easier. If AI can do it better than me then I’ll take that.