My first, my last, my only guitar because I sold the rest in the move...

You make music?

I do, and I'm sorry. If you decide to listen to my music, just be prepared for the stupidity of it. I'm not even kidding, I make rather dumb music with no real intention in anyway for it to be a commercial alternative or as a career. This isn't some form of humble brag either, it's honestly how I feel about it. I have always treated music as a challenge or as a function of narrative work. I enjoy making music, but I don't make it for the listener's enjoyment, it's purely functional. That said I do like hearing that it's liked, who doesn't like praise?!

So why have you included it?

The few people who have heard my work have pretty much told me flat out, to include it in some professional capacity. So, linked at the bottom of the page and in this post, is a soundcloud account that contains the music I have created over the years, for varying purposes.

So, who is "Captain D3"?

"Captain D3 the Masta Wizard" is the result of my boredom during a specific syllabus when studying at Leeds Metropolitan University. I created music as a way to fulfill some creative avenues while studying some heady subjects. The music was created in tandem with a fake persona. The persona was a cover to allow my friends to listen to the music without me being involved, so I could hopefully ascertain a real genuine reaction bereft of personal involvement. It worked, all too damn well, but it worked and it was nice to hear people respond positively to some rather left of field ideas.

Now the persona has been dropped, it really is just a musical alias, nothing more.

So how did you learn to make music?

Long before I started buggering about with music software I had been in a few bands and became a competent, but frustrated guitarist. During this time I started to look into how I could manipulate the guitar sounds I was attempting to create. A lot of the work was using the guitar as an all encompassing suite of sounds, for example singing through the guitar pickups, banging different parts of the guitar to create the percussive sounds etc. A lot of this work is gone. It was very experimental for the most part, but it helped enhance some of the Performing Arts work I was doing at the time and gave me a good understanding of software and it's capabilities.

During university a couple of the modules had a musical component and required the recording of found sounds in the creation of a soundtrack which I took to like a duck to water. I found I could create musical soundtracks effectively and quickly as a direct extension from my previous experimental work. This then continued into all of my student films. The tutor feedback was all positive as well regarding the musical soundtracks and sound creation.

I have even used the music creation in some commercial capacity during the development of a mobile game at a Games Jam while employed at Playground Games. Some have said quite flatly I'm in the wrong career. Partly right, I guess, but for how little music I make I wouldn't have the stamina or the patience to make it full time. I'm an infrequent enthusiast, nothing more.

So where can i listen to this work?

Here: https://soundcloud.com/cjparker_captaind3 there is also a link at the bottom of the page as well because why not. If you listen to this and feel anything I guess it has worked!

Do you plan on making any more?

Probably, but I never plan making music. Usually something happens and I need someone to make a piece and who better than myself right?

Anyway if you want to see what it's all about you know where to go.

Enjoy!

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