Hello. New around these parts.

jkn · Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 469 Location: La Porte, IN, USA

Hi all. Bill Fox has mentioned this site on a number of emails that he sends out and I finally spent some time looking around.

Like probably everyone else here, I'm a musician - and my favorite pastime is babbling about music so I enjoy forums and lists.

I've been writing and recording since the mid-80's - work with a mix of hardware and software and besides synths also play piano, bass, and trumpet. I'm mostly ambient and minimal techno lately, but have dabbled in just about everything else from pop/rock bands to industrial/ebm to jazz.

You can download full length mp3's from here:

http://www.interstitial.info/discog.html

Note - the "sub.terra" album is the only one that doesn't have full length mp3's... they're only 90 second snippets...

Cheers,

John K-N / Interstitial

themoors · Joined: Dec 15, 2003 Posts: 148 Location: northern england

Hi, welcome..

great little board they have here... being new im sure you find loads to keep you interested

just checking out your site now, looks good... anything that you would specifically recomend?

jkn · Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 469 Location: La Porte, IN, USA

I'm still online at the moment - thanks for asking. Here's four that are kind of favorites of mine - all slightly different styles but all sound like me.

beatless ambient with a short bit of piano: marco polo off of 'portraits'

darker mixed with drums: temporal arc off of 'temporal arc'

somewhat happier ambient techno-ish: refraction off of 'temporal arc'

vir unis grooves with me playing trumpet live: endless coral off 'live at the miramar'

mosc · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 4:25 pm Post subject:

Welcome. glad you joined us. Listening to your "Temproal Arc" track now. Very nice music. Where are you from?

syntheticwarfare · Joined: Mar 12, 2004 Posts: 11 Location: maryland

hey im new too Very Happy

gonna check u out shortly Very Happy

jkn · Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 469 Location: La Porte, IN, USA

Mosc - I'm in East Peoria, Illinois. Just next to the "if it'll play in Peoria, it'll play anywhere..." city.

Mohoyoho · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 7:16 am Post subject:

Welcome. Just started listening to some of your pieces. They sound great. How often do you play live?

jkn · Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 469 Location: La Porte, IN, USA

Thanks everyone for listening to my songs. I really appreciate it.

I don't play live much anymore - literally once a year or less. Last gig was a 3.5 hour improv session on WNUR radio in Chicago with James Johnson and Vir Unis in spring 2003. Pictures here if you'd like:

http://www.johei.com/gallery/WNUR2003

Before that was the Space For Music Festival in Milwaukee in 2001. I was playing with Vir Unis at that show also. Some odd photos of that here - these are taken from a video tape of the show:

http://www.johei.com/gallery/Miramar

From 85-92 and then in 97-98 I played with pop/rock bands around central Illinois - many, many gigs playing synth or bass.

I still plan to do some more shows now and then. There's just something amazing about playing live - nothing quite like it.

John

Mohoyoho · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:25 am Post subject:

Great shots. I'm a big fan of Vir Unis and Johnson.

seraph

Mohoyoho · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 12:54 pm Post subject:

jkn. I had some time to listen to some of your work, and I really like it. I will take the time to listen to more. Keep up the good work. By the way, I used to live in Illinois. . .in a place called Rockford. I was the director of photography at the newspaper there. I really miss Illinois, especially Chicago. That area is so diverse musically. Do you get a much opportunity to play out?

jkn · Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 469 Location: La Porte, IN, USA

Mohoyoho,

Yep - I've been up to Rockford a few times. A friend of mine got married there (we had some fantastic sushi there...) - I've got some photos around somewhere. I'll have to see if they're still posted. Ah - just a couple. One of a "ghost town" sign outside Rockford and another of an octopus at a car wash...

http://www.johei.com/gallery/hmk2001/ghosttown
http://www.johei.com/gallery/hmk2001/octiwash

Playing out - I kind of ramble on a bit about that a couple of posts up from this one. A couple of links to photos of my last two gigs (in 2001 and 2003). I have nothing planned right now, but am heading up to Chicago to record an album with a few friends later this spring/summer. Possibly a gig will evolve out of that.

I've gotten to the point where playing out gets harder and harder to do - but if I'm jamming with other people where we can bounce ideas back and forth - then I really love doing it. I miss playing live a lot, but hey, I'm getting a bit older, and my asthma keeps me out of most smoke filled rooms - like bars, etc... which is where most gigs I've had in the past have been.

Very nice website you have - I'll be grabbing the couple of tracks you have up soon. Thanks for listening to my music.