Muziktology
"MUSIQUE AVANT TOUTE CHOSE"
What is your idea of perfect happiness? A fireplace, a Juno-60, a bunch of recorded VHS with white tape full of crossings out. Eventually a NES. My mother own a place like this. We composed out there. What is your most marked characteristic? Our red dot eye. What do you consider your greatest achievement? Our...
What are the actual steps that you take when you are creating? Do you need to enter or go to a certain setting in order to get creative? Oh, no. Ideas don’t wait for your mood or favorite creative set up. Sometimes they come to me when I’m on the street, or when I’m making love, or when I protest, or when I just smoke a cigarette out on the balcony… I try not to write them down on the spot, but rather to keep’em in mind and play them on repeat there until I go to rehearsal and show them to the boys…
What do you consider your greatest achievement? What is your greatest fear? I haven't achieved it yet. Being too old to achieve it.
What do you consider your greatest achievement? That I’ve survived this long!
What is your main motivation to create and be creative? Being able to share ideas and emotions not easily conveyed through words or visuals is the reason I create. There are strange surfaces to explore, and Off Land is the vessel I share to experience these aural realms.
What are the actual steps that you take when you are creating? Do you need to enter or go to a certain setting in order to get creative? For me, the best environment to create something is set up by having a lot of time, no disturbance through internet or people and a pleasant, quite atmosphere and enough food and coffee ;-). I can work very good at home. But sometimes I have to compose in between appointments, rehearsals etc. which can be inspiring too, because then you do not overthink things to much.
What do you consider the most important traits that a song and an album must have before you consider it to be completed? The songs have to tell a story. Take the listener on a journey. What are the actual steps that you take when you are creating? Do you need to enter or go to a certain setting in order to get creative? It usually starts off with a melody hook or a riff. Then we build the song off of that. Whatever’s triggering the idea, whether it’s a beat, guitar riff or a synth chord. Then we’ll start puzzling the song together.
What is the main art form that influenced you in creating? Was it only music or did movies and other forms of art influenced your creative process? Yeah movies, early memories of TV - quite a lot of sci-fi as a kid. Kubrick’s 2001 had a big impact on me as a precocious 10 year old. Influences can be, I don’t know…interpersonal and socio-political vexations, the new Bladerunner film’s cityscapes provided a mental image guide for me on new song on the forthcoming EP. Certainly the mood of some books e.g. the Sorrows of Young Werther, imagery from that guided me on once. Nausea (Satre), Hesse. Poetry. Other music mainly - musicians doing something authentic, truthful and with edge.
What is your main motivation to create and be creative? I think it's one of the most important things to do in today's climate. Tribalist and isolationism are in fashion again and artists have a duty to break down barriers and bring people together with base emotion.
What is your idea of perfect happiness? The idea of perfect for me doesn't exist. Perfection is a illusion idea of the human being, I mean... It's almost impossible to be a perfect musician, father or sports player at the same time. You don't have enough focus on your human brain to deal with that