From the course: Performing with Ableton Live: On Stage with St. Vincent

From humble beginnings to St. Vincent's technical brain - Ableton Live Tutorial

From the course: Performing with Ableton Live: On Stage with St. Vincent

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From humble beginnings to St. Vincent's technical brain

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It was a pretty humble beginning. I wanted to just kind of prove to myself and to everyone else that I could make a living. That was a very simple task right off the bat. And so the key to that is saying, yes. To whatever comes around. So, I was in Philadelphia after I finished school, and I moved to New York. And, for the first several years, that was, that was the trick to it, really, is meet people. And whatever comes up, say yes and do it. And after a while you, you know, you meet a lot of musicians, doing different, projects. and, you learn things about your craft and you learn things about, the people that work in your industry. And, most importantly, they learn things about you. They learn things about what you can do, what you're good at, what you're strengths are. And also that you're cool to be around, that's incredibly important. And then, you put in the time, you put in the work, you learn how to be the best you can be at what you do and how to have a great attitude about it and after awhile people start to recognize you as such. And when the next cool thing comes around you might be on that list that they call. I met Andy Clark of Saint Vincent through a mutual New York friend. So it grew out of that New York scene that I had been a part of for a good ten, twelve years. She was looking for someone to run a show. The, the technical brain of the operation so, a sort of central figure that would pull everything together and make a show happen. She got a bunch of recommendations from New York friends and some of those friends also happened to be my friends and happened to remember that I do that sort of thing. And I met with Annie a couple of times and we hit it off. That's, that's how it happens.

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