Angelo Taylor
A classical school composer specializing in melodic electronic space music with 30 years of experience listens to contemporary musicians of various genres and shares his impressions. “A space sound can be created not only by synthesizers, but also by a symphony orchestra. You just listen to the soundtracks to such sci-fi movies as Star Trek, Star Wars, Megaladon, Battlefield Earth and so on - and you'll see what I mean. In this case, it's not so much the sound that is created, but a certain and very strong atmosphere, which is directly related to the quality of the content of the song. Also, when it comes to space music, which is created on synthesizers, there are a bit more possibilities. Along with the quality of the musical content, we can use sound processing. If an orchestra is almost not processed and its sound is taken as it is, synthesizer music is processed, and there are quite a lot of ways to process it. Basically, the composer's task is to “draw” a finished picture with the help of the tools available to him, which consists of both the musical ideas themselves and the processing technologies used, which would be associated with the coldness of the cosmic vacuum, for example, or with the view of a beautiful blossoming blue planet in the depths of the galaxy, and it will be a different cosmos. One would be cold and hostile, and the other would be gentle, pure, and tenderly melodious. I accept both ways for myself. Why did I start writing cosmic? I love science. I am yesterday's boy who dreamed of becoming an astronaut and seeing the first interstellar flights. I'm an old-school romantic, when my heart sank at the sight of a rocket or an airplane. And then, later, I realized that I was an instrument of beauty because I could hear it and record it. Later came a love for classical music, which is also very much about space or something even more mysterious and beautiful. I started to write music seriously very late, only at the age of 19, and I knew right away that it would be space music, because it allows me to fantasize about beautiful things, about something unearthly, about other worlds that I really want to explore. By this time I already knew the first space composers, such as Jean Michel Jarre, Didier Marouani, Janis Lucens, Kitaro and many others. Gradually came the realization that all this is not just space music, it is primarily instrumental music, very, very emotional. Space music developed in several parallel paths, take the same German composers like Klaus Schulz, Anugama, Karunesh, these are world famous new age composers, so called. They brought something particularly sublime, spiritual to instrumental music, because they were creating in Osho's ashram. I'm not a fan of Osho, but those people were really inspired by his teachings, so they were producing real music, emotional and beautiful. In the end it led me to the idea that to become a composer you have to first of all become yourself, to throw off all these masks that society puts on us and expose your real soul, and only then can a person be a real composer, because then he acts sincerely and creates something really unique. This cannot be taught, it is a whole, if you like, spiritual path, which can be realized only by oneself, because it is the same creative process. Even Rimsky-Korsakov said that creativity cannot be taught. Each composer has a very unique path and follows it in a special way. I associate space music with God, that's why I started to create it, because it is a connection with the beautiful, which is difficult to achieve in other ways.
