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CHRIS MEYER OF ALIAS ZONE
1-How would you describe music in a single phrase?
Movies for the ears and mind.
2-What inspired your music?
I’m trying to illustrate and share the wonder of worlds and journeys that I imagine.
3-What is the main instrument—or instruments—you use when composing your music?
Modular synthesizers. But honestly, I’m interested in sounds first; then I use what I think is the right tool to create that sound – it could be hand percussion, ambient recordings. hardware synthesizers, or virtual instruments.
4-In a few words, how would you describe the concept and sound of your new album “Passage”?
Passing from one phase of your life to another – physically, mentally, or spiritually.
5- What made you realize that Robert Rich would be the perfect collaborator for this specific album?
Two things: One, I love Robert’s music, including his blending of acoustic and electronic instruments. Two, we’ve been friends for decades and have an inherent respect for each other, so I knew there would be no drama – just a calm, open exchange of ideas in pursuit of a wondrous outcome.
6-What is the ideal environment to listen to music?
In a room that makes you feel at peace, with no distractions, either by yourself or with a friend.
7-What’s the most beautiful part of being an artist?
Being able to share beauty – in all of its forms – with others. If you had that opportunity, it would be sad not to take it.
E-CLARK CORNELL
1-When you’re creating music, where do you start?
For whatever it means to anybody else, I believe in the muse I believe that we are as artist, lightning rods to maybe a collective consciousness or unconsciousness historical DNA whatever. That’s how I start. Also, I come from a visual arts background and a video production background so I usually start with in my mind a kind of a script. I call what I do structured improvisation for that reason. That I’ll have an abstract narrative or concept in my head and that leads
me to turn on my stuff and start to create.
2-What inspired your music?
I think I just answered question one and two right there - but as far as people who inspire my music, it would be Marcel Duchamp as the number one mentor in my whole scope of making art.
The piano has become my beast of choice so I’ll start with Erik Satie, Charles Ives,
Harold Budd, and most recently- Jurg Frey.
3-In a few words, how would you describe the concept and sound of your new album "Piano Signs & Symbols [2024 - 2026]"?
The concept behind my new album, piano signs and symbols, is in the title itself. Semiotics has driven my art making ever since 1973 when I was in undergraduate art school. It has some connections to postmodern architecture
and language as well. Like the ready mades of Marcel Duchamp, all my art is about the concept of the mock-up… Creating something that is a symbol for the same thing that it’s a sign for. I can’t explain it more than that.
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4-What is the ideal environment to listen to music?
I don’t really believe in any “IDEAL“ environment for listening to music. I’ve listened to music in all sorts of environments that I can imagine with wireless headphones in a beautiful pasture or cornfield or, as Brian Wilson would say in my room laying on the floor with two stereo speakers, one on each side of my head and closing my eyes.
A lot of electronic musicians give directions on where their work should be listened to I don’t believe in that. [PS- I don’t consider muscly an Electronic Musician]
5-What’s the most beautiful part of being an artist?
I think instead of the most beautiful part of being an artist, I think the most important part of being an artist is totally knowing yourself. Not every little emotion and thing that you think of, but the deep art creating being that is within you. And I think everyone has that potential inside of them deep down- to know yourself as an outside aura of yourself that becomes you. I believe that ART - is what I call the three T’s: Transmission, Transformation, Transcendence. And this is about all ART: the experiencer is in contact with the artwork, there is a transmission that happens between the person and the work of art. The person has some sort of feeling , a message. The experiencer of the artwork is changed, transformed by the significance of understanding of the artwork. And ultimately, and I’m sure this is the wish of every artist, the transformation leads to a certain kind of transcendence- an awareness beyond the normal scheme of reality.That is what art is.
6-What’s next for you?
I continue my solo and collaborative works with a lot of people. I feel very fortunate to be working with other artists that share my views and the importance of art itself to civilization and to our crazy world that we live in right now. I’m up in years as they say, so every day is an opportunity to create something and I almost make a piece every day. I hope I can continue to do so for as long as I can.
EDITH ALONSO
1-When you’re creating music, where do you start?
I usually begin by improvising and exploring sound textures that resonate with me. They become the seeds of an idea that gradually grows into a piece.
2-What inspired your music?
I try to stay open to the world around me and let it surprise me.
3-In a few words, how would you describe the concept and sound of your new album "Momento 0.0"?
It’s a reflection on the moment when life first emerged—the beginning of everything. The music is powerful, yet delicate at the same time.
4-What is the main instrument—or instruments—you use when composing your music?
Mainly analog and digital synthesizers.
5-What is the ideal environment to listen to music?
It depends on the moment. Sometimes music is a personal experience, best enjoyed alone. Other times, it becomes something special when it’s shared with other people at a live concert. Both are equally meaningful.
6-What’s the most beautiful part of being an artist?
Being able to turn your feelings into music and share them with others.
7-What’s next for you?
Finding calm - and seeing what emerges from it.