Saxy (Courtney Risch)
Saxophonist and member of XX, the all-female music group of 1996, interviewed by Kal Zakath after Symphony in her Mind, the first tune she ever tracked. The single source is that traxweekly interview (source: s-tw054-interview-saxy).
Facts#
- Courtney Risch, 18 in April 1996, English/political-science student at Western Maryland College; ten years of baritone and alto saxophone, hence the nick (source: s-tw054-interview-saxy).
- XX: four members — Skie, Ms. Saigon, Pandorra, Saxy — a music group hoping for a female coder; "only four North American girls active" in the scene as far as they knew (source: s-tw054-interview-saxy).
- Path: Ms. Saigon, in her college suite, showed her demos (September 1995) and gave her fasttracker-2; tracking from February 1996. Strengths: arpeggios and orchestral writing; weaknesses: synth sounds and percussion; her synth tunes "always sound like cheesy rip-offs", so she chose the orchestral niche. Favourites: orchestral composers, necros, Siren, basehead (source: s-tw054-interview-saxy).
- Why the tracker beats paper: "you get to hear it, and the tracker does the bar lines and measures for you", and all the parts sound together, unlike at the piano (source: s-tw054-interview-saxy; see tracking-workflow).
- NAID 1996: entered the music compo with a dreamed vocal piece, vocals held back for the compo; also preparing a Music Contest 4 entry (source: s-tw054-interview-saxy; see compos).
Related#
kal-zakath · fasttracker-2 · compos · tracking-workflow · traxweekly