Artist description Tim Rideout FAQ - an Interview ~~~ Q: "Rideout" -is that your real name? ~~~ A: yes. ~~~ Q: who the hell are you? ~~~ A: I'm a 29 year old Maritime fisherboy turned composer/ Urban Beat Freekist who came to Montreal in 1988 to study music at McGill University. Upon receipt of my Paper That Says I Done Good (Bachelor of Music degree), I travelled the world over, playing drums and percussion from the Yucatan Peninsula, to Alaska, Paris, and the American Southwest. I live in Montreal's Plateau district, enjoy baguette and all things Unibroue. Well, all that's true except the part about the fishing. ~~~ Q: ok; thanks for the lengthy response; have you ever done anything really cool or played with anybody we might care about? ~~~A: yeah - I've played drums and recorded albums with Brasse Camarade, Goran Petrovic, Tom Adler, Chiwawa and New Mexico's Gagan Bros Band, amongst many others. I've played at the Olympia Theatre in Paris, the New Mexico Music Awards, been on Much Music and Musique Plus, toured with Denis Richard, opened for Richard Charlebois, worked with The Cure's engineer Steve Whitfield in Bristol, auditioned for Ottmar Liebert, and I met the Marlboro Man in a bar in Santa Fe. Do you know any of these people? ~~~Q: no; except for the Marlboro Man. If you didn't get the Ottmar gig, you must really suck on drums then, eh? ~~~ A: actually, they flew me in and the audition went very well; my papers weren't in order to work in the US on such short notice. ~~~Q: whatever; so you're a composer too - have you written any hits, or anything we might have heard? ~~~ A: maybe; I orchestrated Eyal Bitton's original musical Freedom, wrote the score for a theatre adaptation of Kathy Reichs' new book Death du Jour, arranged a song for Carmen Bonifaccio, and am working on some remixes for clients in the States, via E-commerce. I did the music for alot of jingles and corporate stuff at a studio that shall remain nameless, because they owe me money. I also recently completed my debut solo album "Reaching for the KAM." At present I am writing the music for a new news show on the RDI network and negotiating another composition contrat with the CBC. ~~~ Q: uh-huh; so, do you have, like, a really HUGE studio set-up to do all this mastering work? ~~~ A: no, I work mainly on PC at home, using Sound Forge, Wavelab, T-Racks and Cubase, plus a vast array of top-quality plug-ins. ~~~Q: a PC? At home? hahaha - how can you master an album at home, without Neves, Genelecs, leather couches, or flum-hoozles? ~~~A: what alot of people don't know is that the technology to do it on a PC has been available for the past couple of years. Recently, the price of equipment has come down significantly, so more and more people are getting into it; mastering is sort of this "Lost Art" that's experiencing a revival right now. The problem is, if you don't have (a) the technical knowledge to use the editing software and (b) the studio experience to know what you're doing, you can totally ruin someone's album. That's why, if you're serious about your project, you should hire someone who knows what they're doing. ~~~ Q: can you really do all that internet and multimedia stuff? ~~~A: yes; Enhanced CD is becoming very popular, and it's easy to incorporate into a band's album project at the mastering stage. You can put videos, photos, text, MP3's, web links, sound bytes, etc on the CD-ROM portion of your album. Digital lo-fi video is also a favourite gig of mine. The whole indy cinema revolution is becoming huge. ~~~ Q: allrighty then; is there anything weird that potential employers and collaborators should know about you before they work with you? ~~~A: Yes; I've been told that I am from the last moon of Saturn, I believe Steve Case is now the anti-christ, and I just quit smoking. No organisms were genetically modified in the making of this presentation. ~~~Q: Cool; is it true that you dated Mitsou? ~~~A: no.

Music Style R&B&D&B&C&W&T&A

Musical Influences Amon Tobin, Willie Nelson, Prince, Stravinsky, Darth Vader

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Instruments many many many

Albums Reaching For the KAM

Press Reviews "Tim - loved the album; I think you will sell many copies; well at least one to your father and I." - Love Mom & Dad.

Location Montreal, Quebec - Canada

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