Band Name/Pseudonym: Warprophet
Real Name: Brian Anderson
Instruments Played: Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Drum/MIDI Programming
Influences, Musical or Otherwise: The Sword, Coheed and Cambria, Thrice, Jethro
Tull, AFI, Joe Satriani, Iron Maiden, Cloudkicker, Symphony X, and a whole host
of other loud, guitar-driven bands that I find inspiring, Videogames, History, Nature, Comics, Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Bio: I’m from South Jordan, UT and been doing various musical things as
long as I can remember. I picked up the guitar in high school and have been attempting
to play it properly ever since (with varying degrees of success). I’ve taken
lessons and classes here and there but am largely self-taught.
Thoughts on your experience participating in Silent Sci-Fi: This was much more fun, and more difficult
than I had anticipated. In terms of my writing process, I watched the film,
guitar in hand, recording software running, and played whatever came to mind
over those two hours. This seemed like a good idea at the time, but also
resulted in me having to divide my attention between film and guitar, which
likely made me less productive than I would have been otherwise. Despite the
added pressure, I still managed to get a couple of ideas I liked out of that
process. I kept coming back to some of the first scenes of the film for
inspiration, mentally hearing a determined, driving groove as the ship
approaches this unknown planet and descends through the atmosphere.
I used
Guitar Pro 6 to build the framework of the song, then imported the MIDI into
Reaper, intending to use it as a scratch track that would be muted in the final
mix. However, I liked the chiptune-ish sound of the synth so much that I kept
it in. This was my first time using MIDI in this way in a project, and I
enjoyed the way it made me change the way I worked.
Gear used included:
Brawley
Threat
Gibson
Explorer Gothic w/ SD Black Winter pickups
MIM Fender
Jazz Bass
Egnater
Tweaker 15
Fender
Bassman 250
Focusrite
Scarlett 2i2
Contact info: The best place to contact me is through this blog, the
Silent Sci-Fi Facebook page, or at silent.scifi@gmail.com.
Other
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