Paper Plane Pilot Blog

Paper Plane Pilot Interview (Outliered Reprint)

November 21, 2009

This interview was originally conducted for Outliered Music Magazine and published Friday, November 20, 2009.

There is no denying that these days art and technology not only collide, but frequently morph and spawn the most interesting music. Dustin started Paper Plane Pilot in 2006, originally writing his music on a little 25-key midi controller. Now he uses a Digital Audio Workstation to write electronic pop music with an Indie twist. Think Lily Allen meets New Order, the kind of sound you would happily listen to at home with your headphones on. In his home studio Dustin embraces the latest technology, he has even become a bit of an expert on the subject of DAWs. I talked to him about it, to find out his views on the marriage of music and technology.

What or who got you into music?

Magazines for Recording Electronic Musicians

June 27, 2009

Today in the mail I received two of my three magazine subscriptions. (The third, as a bi-monthly mag, won’t be here for another month.) All three are related to creating music, and tend to focus on using computers to do that. Most of the articles center around DIY music creation and gear, as opposed to the idea of showing up to a studio, booking time and sitting back while someone else creates your “sound” and record (that’s rec-ord, not re-cord) for you. But I digress…

The first music magazine I subscribed to was Future Music. In addition to experimenting on my own, blogs, forums and other online recording websites had formed most of my working recording knowledge, but I was looking for a more passive form of keeping up with gear and other developments in music creation. The depth of most online content is rather shallow (and shrouded in noise and heavy amounts of clutter); the beauty of print is that by definition the content needs to be succinct and relatively good, if only because people must be convinced to actually buy it.

Hi, I'm Dustin. I create electronic indie pop music. Click here to learn more.