BWLR podcast 010 - Richard Kuiper [aka Mouse] (wheels of steel ventures)

Richard Kuiper [aka Mouse] dj/producer : techno : acid Richard Kuiper, or Mouse, sound engineer and designer, likes to produce music in an eccentric fasion. Allthough fasinated by underground culture and mainstream; mouse likes to bend the guidelines and aproach the music without all his knowledge. Constantly breaking patterns in workflow, while following a basic path in the techno genre. It started on a commodore 64 vic with a software synthesiser program- "Synthesiser." As a young boy he spent hours figuring out what all the knobs did; without knowledge, sounds came and went. And sessions mostly ended when there was no sound comming from the program. In the end he did not understand anything about synthesis, but surely made sounds that where sent to space. Or maybe send from space. The music flowes just flows! On the commodore, Mouse had the vision of starting a studio where sound could be manipulated and captured. Later he started programming on the well known 486 computer, and made modules that where very popular in the 90s. This was the moment Mouse started to realise that the sounds he really wanted to make were impossible on any instrument. This realization opened doorways to infinte possibillities in a still limited domain. Currently educated as soundengineer, he still likes to start a music project as if it is his first. Ït keeps the student in me alive" - Richard Kuiper [aka/ Mouse] He mostly works on obsecure, unique and quite underrated electronic instruments and is a big fan of audio tape. Especially the analog sound captured on the compact cassette. For Mouse there are no rules in audio, only guidelines. http://soundcloud.com/mouse777 http://www.youtube.com/user/beatbasta BWLR-P010 Richard Kuiper, Amsterdam, NL