Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is your publishing company? For legal purposes, the music is authored and published by Black Adam Music & Keller Rohre. |
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What do you label your music as? I don't like to adhere to an industry label to define my music. It covers so many styles, at various tempos, so much so that the singular label of “Electronica” or “Hip Hop” etc. is not good enough. I've stuck with a new descriptive name that I made up called “Ballad Electronica.” It fits in that the music, primarily piano based, has an electronic feel to the rhythms and pulsations I put throughout the songs. I may step outside of the core of that definition, but the center of the songs is Ballad in nature. |
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What does the name “Black Adam” mean? Black Adam is a name I gave my creative side, “Black” standing for modernism and rawness, “Adam” is the name I gave it . The name Adam to me is symbolic of a simple man who's been through it all yet remains individual to the world around him. |
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How long have you been making music for? My life has been all about music since I first started remembering things. The fact that I've listened to many countless hours of music has defined me as an aspiring musician. My father shares most styles and genres with me using music from the 1800's thru to today's newest tracks. I started creating my own music around 2000. The first “song” was written on the gymnasium stage at Winchell Elementary school during recess. I sat at the prop desk with paper and pencil, writing a song called “Those Golden Days.” Since then, my father encouraged me to continue creating music and lyrics. |
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What do you use to make your music? For the hardware, I use an M-Audio 100 full-sized keyboard hooked into the PC via USB-MIDI. For software, I use Reason 3.0 from Propellerhead to make the songs, and then smooth the edges with Adobe Audition. |
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What instruments do you play? I play Freestyle piano, drums, and trombone. I've been playing the trombone for 5 years. I've been doing freestyle piano for most of my musical career, and I've been playing drums for several years. I have a knack for picking up any instrument, finding the right key and making sense of it. Although I have no formal musical education with a guitar, I wrote two songs on it. |
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How many songs have you made? The creative process for making music is quite unique. I may go through countless experiments with sounds and shapes of music before turning them into a song. I often find myself going back over the older experiments finding something new out of it, and then working it into a song. Other times I will have a melody that needs some beats and pads to fill it out. Of over 250 experiments, I have turned 40 of them into completed songs. |
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Does anyone help you make your music? I make the music on my own. I have not worked with musicians other than during my summer trip to Alaska , where I experimented with open jamming. A couple song ideas came from it, but I feel more in control of the music when it's me at the wheel. I am open to collaboration with others when the opportunity provides itself. During the first cut listen-through of a new track, I will play it for my Dad or close friends and family to get their opinions. During the production of UV, I worked with my Dad in laying the tracks, and creating the flow of the finished product. |
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How do you get the ideas for the songs? Sensory inputs from the ambience around me feeds the creative vein. Moods control how I take the moments I live through and add a soundtrack to it. The environment of weather adds to it as well. I'm going through high school at the moment, and I feel like the constant outsider – Insecurity, fear, confusion and the pretension of acting normal just to survive the day to day motions of being surrounded by peers in the environment of education. My whole mind is screaming and afraid, which often has me feeling out of mind when in this place. From this mindset, I design music. |
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