Morpheus
Music Micro-Interviews consist of three brief, no-nonesense
questions that can be absorbed quickly and digested easily.
We ask the same questions to all artists so that we get
to see different views on the same matters. We really appreciate
these great musicians giving us their time and we certainly
enjoy the opportunity to have a little more insight into
their thinking.
-----Bill
Leeb (Delerium)
-----Ryan
Farish
Q:
What drives you to make music?
In the hope of leaving something
behind that will be yours creatively and will somehow stand
the test of time. Something for my epitaph.
Q:
What drives you to make music?
I love how you can connect with
other people through music, and evoke emotions with songs.
My goal, is to stir something inside someone with my music,
to create music that first moves me, and then hopefully will
make others feel something from the music, hopefully uplifting.
Q :
How did you choose the name Delerium?
I was looking for a name that
defined a worldly ambience of dark electronic music. The misspelling
of it is from my German/English translation.
Q :
Why did you choose to work under your own name rather than
create a name?
Its just me, so its called Ryan
Farish.
Q :
What’s the piece of music that you are most happy with
from your own output and why?
Its impossible
to pick a favorite. All songs define a time and emotion
that made it the most important to me, at each particular
time they were written.
07.07.04
Q :
What’s the piece of music that you are most happy with
from your own output and why?
"Beautiful" is
my favorite of all my albums so far, it really has a broad
spectrum of feelings, to me. I am most happy with the tracks
on that one, and it is also considered my first national
release.
14.07.04
------Collide
------Brannan
Lane
Q:
What drives you to make music?
Statik:
The fact that it's fun to do and difficult at the same time.
It's so interesting to know that with only 12 notes, there
are endless variations of songs that you can make. So many
things can be conveyed in music, different feelings and moods.
And a good song can stay with you forever. Music's very powerful.
kaRIN: I have always
been driven to make things...that is all I have ever really
wanted to do. Music just happens to be the most satisfying
for me, where I can say exactly what I want and vocally
twist through the music. I feel obsessed by the notion.
Q:
What drives you to make music?
I
have always had a huge love for music and art. It's very rewarding
for me to create and produce it. I just can't stop. I quess
it's something inside of me that just has to come out.
Q :
How did you choose the name Collide?
Statik:
It really just seemed to fit us. kaRIN and myself are total
opposites when it comes to our approach to making music.
kaRIN: It felt like such
a great descriptive for our music. It is harsh yet beautifull...
seperate yet together.
Q :
Why did you choose to work under your own name rather than
create a name?
I
have worked with various groups/bands over the years. So,
when I decided to release solo projects, it seemed only natural
to just record under my own name, since I'm just one person.
(laughs)
Q :
What’s the piece of music that you are most happy with
from your own output and why?
Statik:
I don't really have a favorite of our own music. It's too
personal and all I can hear is the things that might have
been better. In making the music, I know it too well, and
there's no mystery. I have a much greater love of music where
I really wonder how they made it, the sounds, the whole thing.
kaRIN: I have no
idea...there is no one track and if there was I have not
written it yet. Maybe that is what drives me...
20.06.2004
Q :
What’s the piece of music that you are most happy with
from your own output and why?
Well,
I have two answers for that. Solo, Sleep Cycle. Collaboration,
Lucid Circles with Amir Baghiri. This is a hard question
to answer, but if I have to pick, those are presently my
two favorites. (smiles)
I would like to thank Paul and Morpheus Music for asking
me do this micro interview.
Sincerely,
Brannan
30.06.2004
------Quinn
------Paul Schwartz
Q:
What drives you to make music?
Since I started
playing drums at the age of three, the musical desire has
been unyielding. My first CD came out of the need to put my
own musical ideas I had building up inside of me on tape.
From a few tracks on an eight track cassette recorder came
my first record deal. Since then the music has been pouring
out. I also find that working
with other artists expands my artistic vision and allows me
to bring new and fresh ideas back into my own music. I feel
that it's not just my own drive
to make music but a force that moves through me that fuels
me to create. As I finish mixing my sixth CD I can't help
but think, "Where did this all come
from?" It's something much more involved and powerful
than myself.
Q :
What drives you to make music?
It's something I've been
doing since I was very very little. I think I first wrote
a tune when I was 3. My father was a composer, and I suppose
that it imprinted me. And as insipid as this sounds, I just
find it very interesting as an activity. Satisfying.
Q :
Why did you choose to work under your own name rather than
create one ?
It was a joint decision between
the record label and myself. At first many people didn't know
if 'Quinn' was a band name or a male or female artist.
That mystery, along with the absence of any personal photos
allowed the music to be listened to without any preconceived
ideas. Also, most of my
peers have/had created "Band Names".
Q :
How did you choose the name State of Grace for that project?
The title described the
feeling that I was trying to evoke, as well as being religious
in its reference. However, it isn't specific to any one
religion or denomination.
Despite the fact that the S.O.G. cds are based on Christian
texts, I hope that the emotions embodied in them are universal.
Q :
What’s the piece of music that you are most happy with
from your own output and why?
That's a hard one. Every
piece of music from every album stands as a document of
where I was and what I was going through at that time. So
it's difficult to choose one moment over another as being
more special. However, with that said, I would say that
one of them would be My Secret Yearning from Beneath the
Quiet. This was a piece that I sang the lead vocal on, unlike
the previous records where I brought in different female
singers to perform the lead vocals. It also culminated
many, many months of studying the lives and practices of
Anchorites and Anchoresses, a subject that continues to
interest me.
13.06.2004
Q :
What’s the piece of music that you are most happy with
from your own output
and why?
This is a tough
one. Probably the correct answer is none of them. I am very
self critical, and find fault with everything. If forced
to pick one or two tracks I would say: Miserere from SOG
1, River of Stars from Earthbound, and a new piece called
Portrait, that will be on the cd of a new artist I am currently
producing named Lucia Micarelli (July 20 release~)
