Interview with Lezet
1) Who are you?
A father to a brilliant 4 yo and a music lover who happens to like working on his own music as well,
2) Can you describe your surroundings?
I come from a foggy town in West Serbia close to the Bosnian border. It’s dull and uninspiring, but it somehow managed to inspire a few musicians who succeeded in becoming or forming well-known national and regional acts (Straight Mickey and the Boyz, Organizam, The Mothership Orchestra etc).. So I guess it was exactly this lack of things to do what got me going as well.
3) Where would you like to go?
I would love to move to or at least visit San Francisco one day. For someone with asthma coastal California is a dream come true.
4) What would you say are the main features of your creative process(s)?
I start by recording improvisations or sounds or by recording parts I come up with on piano/keys/bass and then use DAWs to organize them into tracks. Sometimes the whole process is structured, sometimes it’s improvised
5) What do you really want your audience to understand about you/your art?
In my case it’s about experimenting and having fun discovering things that are new to me. I both do and don’t take my music seriously, and these approaches collide whenever I’m making music.
6) Does audience matter?
Of course it does. It’s is immensely rewarding to learn there are people out there enjoying your music. However, I do music first and foremost to feel good about myself, not to cater to any particular niche or possible audiences. My “real life” was a string of compromises and I failed at most things I have undertaken in life. I feel I have to constantly prove to myself I’m worthy of the life I’ve been given by doing one of the few things I don’t completely suck at .I don’t have to prove anything to anyone else.
7) Why Resist?
I don’t think a single music maker can make a difference by resisting, but collectively people in underground experimental music can make quite a splash and inspire people by wonderful contributions to the continuum of adventurous music. We are all amateurs and hobbyists and we can change the world together.
8) Why do you do it?
I do music for fun, to meet people and collaborate with them, expand on my own experiences and boost my own self-esteem. Living in a country that changed its name 4 times during my lifetime taught me to avoid judging events and wars and people I know nothing about.
9) What drives you?
The sheer joy /process of making music and expressing myself in a musical way. I know us music makers should focus on promoting our brands and spam people with non-music related content, but I find it tedious. Music is a hobby to me and it’s fun – if I wanted it to be an enterprise I would try and write corporate pop tunes for other people, and that would require dealing with industry people who are not music fans themselves. Where’s the fun in that?
10) What do you do in your daily life?
I teach ESL and translate things, enjoy long walks and swim a lot. I might not always be in the mood for listening to new music, but I’m always up for a good swim
11) Do you have any strategies for adapting to the challenges of existing in your unnatural environment? If so, what are they?
When I was younger I did my best and spent enormous amounts of time and energy on pleasing others and seeking their approval. It took me 33 years to realize I didn’t need that. I stopped caring about how others (friends, acquaintances, family members) perceive me. My guess is most people think I’m a loner living in his own comfortable bubble, and they’re right.
12) What is your favorite animal?
Lion sits in the summer sun and appreciates life, itself and its significant other for what they are.
13) What would your superpower be?
I don’t think I have one , but if I was to choose I’d pick perfect pitch J
14) What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever seen?
A severed thumb leaning against a brick pointing at the sky inside a bombed post office building.
15) Please tell us something about one EFSPACM project that you took part in, and how you worked on your piece.
The latest one inspired by Renaissance really got me going and even inspired me to write an entire album thinking about that era. Renaissance means so many things to so many people, can’t wait to hear what group members come up with.
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