| David Vector's musical history can be traced all the way back to the mid '80s... |
...when David became obsessed with Rush and Yes in his teens.
He had been taking piano lessons since the age of ten, but
progressive rock inspired him in a new way, giving him the urge to
write and record his own music instead of just playing what others
had written decades or centuries before. Like many teens who
dream of being successful rock musicians, David used to sit in
class and do little sketches of what he might one day use for
album cover artwork. The name he gave to his imaginary future
band? "Vector." So, even the name he now uses as an artist
handle is drawn from those early days.
For the next few years, David experimented with recording on a
4-track cassette unit (which is what most musicians started out
with before the days of inexpensive computer-based recording).
After high school, he played keyboards and bass in a few cover
bands, but none of them were really suited to recording original
material.
Finally, around 1993, he put a Macintosh-based computer setup
together that incorporated sampling and 4-track hard disk
recording and recorded his first album. Although there were some
decent musical ideas in play, the production quality fell short of his
hopes. He recorded another album in 1996 which also
disappointed him and was never released.
A period of upheaval and dealing with personal issues devoured
the next few years. When the dust finally settled, David finished up
a new album called Immovable Mover, which was released via
the internet in early 2003. It was a big step forward in terms of
production quality and did generate a little bit of interest in the
progressive rock community, but in hindsight, David felt the album
was too derivative of his influences and not original enough.
At that point, David was becoming fascinated by modern
electronic-based genres and the latest developments in
synthesizer technology. This led to the first album released under
the "Project Vector" name, 2005's Reality Show. It was a slightly
uneasy marriage of progressive rock and modern
techno/electronica which one reviewer described as reminding
him of "a more progressive-minded Thomas Dolby." It was a bit
strange, but it was also a useful step towards finding a more
individual sound.
Later in 2005, David briefly attempted to get a musical
collaboration going, with a view towards having some kind of
performing unit that could actually play material live. It quickly fell
apart and, feeling disillusioned with attempting to work with others,
David decided to just be a complete solo artist and adopt "David
Vector" as his artist handle and delve even deeper into electronic
music. The result was Go, released at the end of 2006. Again, it
was an unusual mix of rock, electronica, and even a hint of funk
here and there.
David got the itch to start working on another new project almost
immediately after Go was finished. January 2007 saw the start of
what would become a very prolonged search for musical direction.
The next three years found him recording music varying in style
from modern electronica to synth-heavy atmospheric rock to even a
couple of tracks that had a kind of progressive grunge rock flavor.
When the dust settled and David's various muses were done
duking it out, he found that what he really wanted to do was
continue recording music driven largely by piano, synthesizers,
and his often-hyperactive bass playing...playing to his strengths.
David is currently hoping to have a new album ready to roll
sometime in 2012.
Stay tuned!
He had been taking piano lessons since the age of ten, but
progressive rock inspired him in a new way, giving him the urge to
write and record his own music instead of just playing what others
had written decades or centuries before. Like many teens who
dream of being successful rock musicians, David used to sit in
class and do little sketches of what he might one day use for
album cover artwork. The name he gave to his imaginary future
band? "Vector." So, even the name he now uses as an artist
handle is drawn from those early days.
For the next few years, David experimented with recording on a
4-track cassette unit (which is what most musicians started out
with before the days of inexpensive computer-based recording).
After high school, he played keyboards and bass in a few cover
bands, but none of them were really suited to recording original
material.
Finally, around 1993, he put a Macintosh-based computer setup
together that incorporated sampling and 4-track hard disk
recording and recorded his first album. Although there were some
decent musical ideas in play, the production quality fell short of his
hopes. He recorded another album in 1996 which also
disappointed him and was never released.
A period of upheaval and dealing with personal issues devoured
the next few years. When the dust finally settled, David finished up
a new album called Immovable Mover, which was released via
the internet in early 2003. It was a big step forward in terms of
production quality and did generate a little bit of interest in the
progressive rock community, but in hindsight, David felt the album
was too derivative of his influences and not original enough.
At that point, David was becoming fascinated by modern
electronic-based genres and the latest developments in
synthesizer technology. This led to the first album released under
the "Project Vector" name, 2005's Reality Show. It was a slightly
uneasy marriage of progressive rock and modern
techno/electronica which one reviewer described as reminding
him of "a more progressive-minded Thomas Dolby." It was a bit
strange, but it was also a useful step towards finding a more
individual sound.
Later in 2005, David briefly attempted to get a musical
collaboration going, with a view towards having some kind of
performing unit that could actually play material live. It quickly fell
apart and, feeling disillusioned with attempting to work with others,
David decided to just be a complete solo artist and adopt "David
Vector" as his artist handle and delve even deeper into electronic
music. The result was Go, released at the end of 2006. Again, it
was an unusual mix of rock, electronica, and even a hint of funk
here and there.
David got the itch to start working on another new project almost
immediately after Go was finished. January 2007 saw the start of
what would become a very prolonged search for musical direction.
The next three years found him recording music varying in style
from modern electronica to synth-heavy atmospheric rock to even a
couple of tracks that had a kind of progressive grunge rock flavor.
When the dust settled and David's various muses were done
duking it out, he found that what he really wanted to do was
continue recording music driven largely by piano, synthesizers,
and his often-hyperactive bass playing...playing to his strengths.
David is currently hoping to have a new album ready to roll
sometime in 2012.
Stay tuned!
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