extrakt

Extrakt is a collection of your world around you, it is you, it is your mind, it is your body, spirit and soul. It is in everything you see, in the fashion industry, in TV shows, in food and in design. You create/say or do is an extrakt of your nurtured life....it�s in your mannerisms, your dialect, your look, your beliefs, your morals and your music. You�re an extrakt of you existence.

Makaton: is a system of communication that uses a vocabulary of �key word� manual signs and gestures to support speech, as well as graphic symbols to support the written word. It it used by and with people who have communication, language or learning difficulties.

Techno is designed the same way a chair is to seat you, without the right angled shape of the pedestal and backrest, who makes the rules for you to have an upright posture? When you �feel� techno, it is mapped to certain parts of your body in many distinct ways. The bass can affect your feet, defining your rate of movement through the BPM..as we grow older our normal heart rate reduces:

150 BPM at 3 months old
135 BPM at 6 months old
100 BPM at 3 years old and so on....

Between averages of 120 and 145 BPM, the music you listen to can directly control your heart rate..for all those long hours spent in dirty warehouses and at the back of arches, your body finds itself reverting back to those first few years of life where the only option was to keep up and build out.
Your shoulders can be mapped to the mid range or melodic areas of the music, the anatomy is controlled in a swaying motion defined by the acidic basslines or melodic riffs.
Head and hands can be controlled by the hi-hats, shaking like maracas when the 16th hats come in.

The body is just as important as the imaginative process when writing music, you can ask many musicians (especially jazz or �improv� artists) that the music truly flows when you and your body feels it.

The makaton technique helps fill in the important gaps in conversation and dialogue, breaking barriers and continuing a steady flow, much in the same way it does for music. What this does mean for techno is that it has a flow, it has a restriction, much like a river meanders, it has a pattern that adheres to our normal anatomy and genetic makeup....a monotonous progression of noise affecting specific parts of your body. You can draw your own conclusions on this whether relating it to the need for rhythm hence making it difficult to change, or whether it�s too difficult to create something with the body or mind alone. But consider music as a 2D form, controlled by narrow imagination and a repetitive physical form.

Richard James once remarked when asked to edit a track for radio. that it was like �removing a limb from one my children�.

These are our creations, and its time to look beyond our limitations.