Q: “Could you talk a bit about how your brother Mark’s diagnosis and treatment affected you? Are there any songs on the album that are an homage to him or his experiences with cancer?”Ī: “a family member going though cancer is an absolute whirlwind of confusion and suffering and hope and anxiety. It’s weird, but somehow filtering it through my own experience made the images more meaningful for me.” Brother’s Diagnosis The Nurture “mood board” was 90% my photos (but some of those photos were of things like CD covers I saw in stores, or anime box art, or travel posters I saw in Japan, etc). For “Nurture”, a lot of it came from a certain feeling I had in my heart, and I’d take photos in reality that captured that feeling. Q: “How did you go about developing the core aesthetics for Virtual Self and Nurture?”Ī: “Virtual Self began with a few images that I knew would be the core of the inspiration - mostly stuff derived from Bemani games, forum sigs, fanmade Stepmania charts, a few game box arts (PSO2 was definitely central). Like, it’s my way of making the feeling “real” and bridging the gap between the idea and reality.” Core Aesthetics That’s why I try to make the liveshows so all-encompassing and singular. The way for me to scratch that itch is to somehow embody it. Like with Virtual Self, that vibe existed in my head, but I wasn’t going to be satisfied until i could GO there! When I love something, I just want to get closer and closer and closer to it. I really want to be immersed as fully as possible into the worldview of what I’m working on. Can you provide some insight as to why you prefer to have your music be supported by these larger, immersive ideas? And do you ever think you’ll ever move away from this format?”Ī: “when I make music, I’m trying to like… “bathe” in it.
You had the Worlds and Nurture albums, an entire alias for Virtual Self, and a tour and music video dedicated to Shelter. Q: “From every music release since Worlds you have seemed to put music out in such a purposeful way with a large scale project to back each release. You’ll get it eventually” Large Production If you ever hear a turn of phrase in media, or literature, or in a conversation, or in your own internal monologue and it resonates with you, write that down. Just remember you’re an absolute beginner at it, so give yourself some compassion and room to grow. I don’t think I wrote a single good lyric for the first like 2 years of working on Nurture. So try not to judge what you’re making too much. Q: “how do you go about writing lyrics? I’ve just started playing with the idea of singing on my own music but I find coming up with lyrics that fit the timing of a song really difficult, especially without them sounding super cheesy.”Ī: “don’t worry about this - writing lyrics is INSANELY FUCKING HARD and still is for me now.
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but in that ‘fight or flight’ state, all of that was invisible to me.” You can read the full answer here. of course, the reality is much more complicated: i had, of course, improved in so so so many fucking ways in relation to my own creativity, life balance, overall level of happiness, level of productivity, mindfulness, ability to sing, ability to write lyrics. (You can see the sheer distortion of the OCD / Anxious thinking there, but that’s where I was). That was the very last song written for the album, and because i was kind of stuck on it, i became very worried that i hadn’t progressed at all, that I hadn’t actually improved, and that the premise of the album would then be a lie. Q: “are there any lyrics you were particular satisfied with when they came together? or your favorite delivery of those lyrics from yourself? any lyrics that were particularly hard to get just right?”Ī: “the very hardest vocal on the whole album to ‘get right’ was Trying to Feel Alive. that’s your insides YA GOTTA LOVE IT.” Lyrics that’s why it’s better to have compassion for yourself as you’re being creative rather than judging the thing you’re doing. artists tend to show the best 5% of their work.
And then you compare that to your own face when it accidentally pops up in the forward-facing camera. It’s a highlight reel of a highlight reel of a highlight reel of a highlight reel.
and there’s another degree of “filtration” there - sometimes people take all of those steps and then don’t post a photo. I talk about instagram this way a lot: in your feed, you see other people’s photos after they’ve posed with the intention of being photographed, with selected lighting, they’ve taken 400 photos and chosen the most flattering one, and then adjusted colors and often times used beauty apps. A: “comparison is a dangerous game anyway, but it’s also almost impossible to do with any degree of accuracy or real perspective.
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