#129 Mike Parker: Art and techno, "If it's about money or fame then maybe you've lost the original motivation"

Not A Diving Podcast with Scuba

Mike Parker is one of the most singular practitioners of the discipline of Techno as is possible to identify. His biography describes his approach to music as 'experimental and ritualistic' and on detailed listening you'd have to agree.

He's also a professor of fine art at Daemen College in Buffalo, and a graduate of the art school at Carnegie Mellon University.

So this is an episode about Techno, but not typical of nominally similar episodes of recent weeks.

We discuss recording, work in the studio without a computer, his early experiences in bands, the influence (or not) of EDM, and the mid 90s east coast warehouse scene.

And we also get a definition of 'art' from someone who actually knows what they're talking about!

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