February Album Writing Month - FAWM.ORG

theconsumption

progress: 7

joined: January 2009
location: South Korea
website: soundcloud.com/illwiththeconsumption
influences: Square waves, sawtooth waves, greed, poor health, French electro house, popular culture, subculture, adversity, Korea.

Bio

Born and raised in Denver, Thom Butler is a Colorado native seeking to bring something new to the Denver dance music scene. Interested in music and computing from an early age, he began to dabble in electronic music during his time at Lakewood High School after hearing Fatboy Slim’s “Rockafeller Skank” on the radio; the end results of his work sounded like rubbish. No need to sugar coat it. It wasn’t until he ended up in the Music Industry Studies: Technology program at the University of Colorado at Denver that he started learning music theory and, unsurprisingly, the end results started sounding less and less like rubbish. He was also introduced to a number of more advanced and sophisticated bits of software such as Propellerheads Reason and Digidesign ProTools, expanding his repertoire of sounds even further, becoming more learned in the fundamentals of audio synthesis.

Current plans involve working a full-time job teaching Middle School-aged Korean private school students English and cranking out three or four tracks a week. Crazy? Sure... but I can't speak the language and I've seen a bunch of stuff already, so I may as well spend a month as a shut-in.

OTHER CONTACT INFORMATION:
AIM: megamegathom
E-Mail: megamegathom@comcast.net
Twitter: thefinalthom
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/profile.php?id=120702439
Music Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/illwiththeconsumption/149842674120?

If contacting me, please specify your association with FAWM! I may seem very unfriendly unless I know you're a FAWMer... not because I'm a very unfriendly guy, but. I don't know. I kind of value e-privacy to an extent. I can already tell you lot that I love every single one of you, though... probably because you're crazy as I am, fourteen songs in a month.

OH... INSTRUMENTS.
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My main instrument of choice is Propellerheads Reason 4.0... but I hate the pre-set synth sounds, so I make my own. I've recently been swaying towards the evil clutches of Ableton Live, however. I also enjoy using random things around me as instruments, like the tambourine I drunkenly stole from the karaoke room and the sound of my neighbour barging into my apartment and firing a shotgun burst of BBs at me and, consequently, all over my apartment.

Life in Korea is interesting.

2010 Songs

1	Fighting Pt 1	23 comments // 1 month ago
2	Fighting Pt 3	11 comments // 1 month ago
3	Fighting Pt 2	14 comments // 1 month ago
4	Again and Again (with elegansM)	10 comments // 1 month ago
5	Pursuit	4 comments // 4 weeks ago
6	Fearless	4 comments // 3 weeks ago
7	Wisdom	1 comment // 3 weeks ago

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looprication 1 week ago

Hey thanks! Signing up now, I put that "consumption" sent me 'cuz "theconsumption" wouldn't fit, hope that's your username on there.
looprication 1 week ago

re: making your own synth patches... can you recommend any reading on how to get started? That kinda separates the wheat from the chaff in my book, and I've never really figured out how to get started down that road.
Wash Away 3 weeks ago

Wait, your American who lives in Colorado, but enjoys Korean things? Hey! Im an American who lives in New Jersey and I enjoy Korean things. South Korea of course (cough, cough). After my parents switched our tv box, we started to get a Korean channel called MBC. Heard of it? Well now me and my sister are into Korean suff and their culture. Sorry if Im weirding you out.
Roel van Veldt 1 month ago

Hey Thom,

I love it! Is it all improvised? Or do you work it out in midi? It sounds powerful!

Roel
kristian 1 month ago

Just discovered you today on the jukebox... you rock! Consider yourself watchlisted Sir
Errol 1 month ago

Allllooooo Consumption!

I heard you on the radio! Huzzah! And hopefully, one of these days, I'll be done my work and get back into the community. *sigh* I miss FAWM. So... uh... do you watch Starcraft TV while you're there?
Kevin Reid 1 month ago

Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed the song. I like your electronic music so far. When the beat drops in Fighting Pt 3 it's pretty wicked.
Dan Wallbank 1 month ago

Haha, thank you. Glad to know I'm getting it right, though the guitar and vocal mix still annoy me a bit.
Dan Wallbank 1 month ago

Thanks for the compliment! I always feel worried about my production.
nextdoorninja 1 month ago

Hey.. thanks for the comment. I usually use Ableton for as much as I can. I do some recording of my guitar, bass and some percussion samples though.
I was hoping to use Renoise as well, but I'm waiting for the new version to come out and didn't make it in time for fawm
Hope Korea is treating you well, it definitely is one of my next destinations.
Cheers!
Chasing Andromeda 1 month ago

Ahhhh....electronic wonderment in a sea of singer/songwriters. Pardon me while I pull up a chair...
looprication 1 month ago

Ableton is not evil, you are. I mean that in the best possible way.

And is it possible that the tambourine theft and the shotgun incident were (ahem) correlated?
The Das Binky Recording Collective 1 month ago

Looking forward to hearing some interesting Reason sounds! I'm still married to the pre-sets... apathy on my end.
Rob Cooke - Boy@Heart 2 months ago

Good luck with this year's FAWM. We're almost in the same timezone. I'm in Thailand.
Rob