![]() Anyway, I just started to play more keyboards. I played a lot of guitar but I was also a keyboard guy too. We were into spacey, groovy sounds of the Pink Floyd or Can variety but also guitar attacks like early Mercury Rev, My Bloody Valentine, and Sonic Youth. They were old friends themselves, so everything was instantly simpatico and we developed a mode of instant composition. Eventually, we both moved to Gainesville, FL where we started jamming in The Ohm with our friends Zach Veltheim and Mark Miller. It was great stuff! At the time I think we both considered Pink Floyd’s “Interstellar Overdrive” as the pinnacle of musical achievement. I started making music with my friend James Barreto, we had an experimental psych band called The Ohm back in 1999, but before that we were making weird sound collages of dreamy melodic/ominous noise pieces with two guitars, a cheap keyboard, and two tape recorders, producing these atmospheric epics by overdubbing in the most primitive way imaginable. Can you talk a bit about how you got your start in making music and why you are attracted to ambient and electronic modes of music? If you don’t know Steve‘s work, I highly recommend you check out his various projects! Steve was kind enough to answer my questions about both of his most recent albums, his larger musical involvement in various projects, and his love of the synthesizer and its possibilities. ![]() In the past year, he has released two albums, one being Opus I-IV and the wonderful Loose Canons 2.0, a sort of exploration in 8bit gaming soundtrack composition. Steve Giacomelli is an experimental musician hailing from Silicon Valley, California.
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