scott_____ + Musician in Cambridge, EN

SEEKING

ABOUT

hello! i'm Scott. i started making music about 5 years ago (31 now). started by learning sax, then piano, then guitar, got into a habit of trying to play any instrument i could find (my sax remains atrocious unfortunately), but have settled on ableton and electronic production as my main craft. i've never really had any music lessons and am self-taught to the extent i know anything; i've found this lends quite a different perspective towards music making than is common among trained musicians - not in a way that's better or worse, but just interestingly different, and it leads to an interesting mix. massive respect to anyone putting in the practice though, for real. i like doing stuff with loops, using samples and my own designed sounds.

i'm really keen to make music with other people, formally trained or otherwise. i was in a band a few years ago and it was the best time. as well as having fun making music with others, i really want to commit to developing the craft as a shared project, and work hard to make beautiful, original music. let's jam, experiment, and bring something incomprehensible into the world! particularly keen to work with a vocalist and a drummer. wanna get out there and gig. playing live so fun.

last note. i'm really into radically egalitarian ideas about music making (check out the Scratch Orchestra from the 60s) and sometimes run a workshop i call "music making for non-musicians", which, by following a few simple procedures, runs just as it sounds: you give people who "don't know how to make music" instruments and then the confidence to play with them. you can hear the results of one such workshop in one of the tracks below, "apocalypse/Free Palestine", the second half of which is a recording of a spontaneous composition that a bunch of people, mostly strangers, just came out with after a few rounds of the workshop. this is just to say that i'm open to a lot musically, and am not just interested in making music that sounds like my own music, or the well-defined genres of music i like (would love to make a good pop song one day tho tbh). i'm interested in what people coming together to make music can do, wherever it leads!

Screen name:

scott_____

Member since:

Jul 14 2026

Active within 1 week

Level of commitment:

Very Committed

Years playing music:

5

Gigs played:

Under 10

Available to gig:

2-3 nights a week

Influences

my three great musical loves are (spiritual) jazz, electronic music (IDM/ambient), and (East Coast) hip-hop/rap. but i've got love for a lot more too. i'm not really sure what my music ends up sounding like. here's 20 of my fave artists/albums because i just couldn't cut the list down any further:

Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
Four Tet - There Is Love In You (all of them really)
Earl Sweatshirt - Live Laugh Love
Burial - Untrue
Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE (again, all of them really)
Roberta Flack - Chapter 2
Geese - Getting Killed
Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
King Krule - Space Heavy
Mary Lattimore - At The Dam
Arooj Aftab - Vulture Princess
The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
PinkPantheress - Fancy That
Death Grips - The Money Store
Tim Hecker - Virgins
SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES
Bad Bunny - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Djivan Gasparyan - I Will Not Be Sad In This World
John Martyn - Solid Air

Instrument experience:

Electronic Music:

Advanced

Keyboard:

Moderate

Piano:

Moderate

Rhythm Guitar:

Intermediate

EQUIPMENT

ableton live 12 suite
ableton push
arturia drumbrute drum machine
2 midi small midi keyboards and a midi controller with pads
audio interface and a couple mics
old Yamaha keyboard
old Roland synth
electric guitar and amp
acoustic backpacker's guitar
classical guitar
banjo
accordion (perhaps broken)
harmonica
bansuri (Indian flute)
clarinet
tenor sax
djembe
snare drum and a tom
assorted percussion and other bits

MUSIC