EFSPACM

1) Who are you? samarobryn, aka Sze Tsang :) I am a composer, musician, performer, academic researcher...also dog parent, succulent grower and FFXIV player.  2) Can you describe your surroundings? It's a lovely, clear Makuru day in Perth, Western Australia. Typical of this period, there is a distinct cold bite in the air. Sunlight is streaming through the windows. My dog, Nira, is asleep on the couch with a blanket.  3) Where would you like to go? To bed ;) It's one of those days...More seriously - if there is one place I could visit right now, it would be Antarctica. I've always been fascinated by that place. It's brutal, but also beautiful, and such an alien landscape. Amazing wildlife and geographical features.  4) What would you say are the main features of your creative process(s)? A lot of the time, I ask myself: how does something - a theme, a place, an idea - make me feel? Then I think about how I might express my feelings through sound.  The primary feature ...

1) Who are you? Mike Fuchs/Yellow Salamand’r... and I’m still learning who I really am. 2) Can you describe your surroundings?   Small village rural. Generally peaceful. 3) Where would you like to go?   Wherever the path leads. The journey is most exciting part for me. 4) What would you say are the main features of your creative process(s)?   Simplicity. Obscurity. Insouciance. 5) What do you really want your audience to understand about you/your art?   I don’t wish to impart my vision on others. It’s so much more intriguing for an audience to create their own perspective. Keep ‘em guessing. 6) Does audience matter?   I create, because I have to. It’s my release. So essentially I do it for me, but clearly audience response... good or bad... is invigorating. Final answer... no/yes😉. 7) Why Resist?   Depends entirely on the circumstances. 8) Why do you do it?   I have to, for my sanity. 9) What drives you?   I just cannot ignore the desire  to...

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 re...

1) Who are you? I think I am a composer. But I also do things like poetry. And by poetry I don't only mean writing (although notation is really helpful), but also sound poetry. So I'm not sure if poetry is about singing or not, but it's about sounds. Did I say poetry? I meant composition. Certainly, composition is about notation. 2) Can you describe your surroundings? Not too many people around me do stuff like I do. I mean there are such people even in the neighouring blocks of flats, there is a violinist, a dancer, and that guy making videos. But an important element of my creative surroundings is the internet, and our group is very important for my musical activities. 3) Where would you like to go? Holidays, seashore. Relax. A friend (also EFSPACM member) sent me a recording of sea vawes, really relaxing. Over an hour long. 4) What would you say are the main features of your creative process(s)? I think I don't have an algorithm that I use in all my projects. And I s...

1) Who are you? Linn Friberg, a TCK (third culture kid) based in Norrköping, Sweden. I am the curator/producer of two different compilation series on Kalamine Records (France) - INTENT and PARADIGM. Creating music since 2005 under different aliases, and contributing regularly to the projects run by Slavek Kwi (Artificial Memory Trace). I used to be many things through life, and the only consistent things about me were and are reinventing the self, undergoing deep personal transformation, developing further, and broadening the horizons. I speak Swedish, English, Icelandic, and Russian with various degrees of proficiency. Understanding also basic Norwegian (bokmål), and planning to study Greek and Chinese later on. 2) Can you describe your surroundings? A tiny studio apartment in central Norrköping nearby the river. The apartment contains my main habitat, music production studio, and hydroponic garden. I grow my own vegetables, fruits, and microgreens using the Kratky method and inside a...

1) Who are you? We are Spaghetti Castle. Creative duo and partners in life. 2) Can you describe your surroundings? An apartment bedroom overlooking a retention pond full of sliders and softshells; in Gainesville, Florida (USA). From our window, we watch them swim and we want to believe. 3) Where would you like to go?  We'd like to live as expatriates in Mexico City, like Nancarrow. 4) What would you say are the main features of your creative process(s)? Catharsis, obfuscation, onanism, improvisation, medicine.   5) What do you really want your audience to understand about you/your art? We'd like them to understand that this project is no more, nor any less, than an attempt at abreaction and exorcism...art therapy. 6) Does audience matter? So much of our output is collaborative in some way; if not always, strictly speaking, a duet. There always seems to be an audience of at least one, and they're always vital to the moment.   7) Why Resist? Because it's personal. Because...

1) Who are you? {AN} EeL / Neal D. Retke  2) Can you describe your surroundings? Currently - The ' Man Cave ' portion of the house, i.e. - the basement, A.K.A. ~ Where the magic happens  3) Where would you like to go? As time progresses, it's less a matter of where I want to than enjoying where I am - A Mantra presented itself to me a number of years ago, that being " This is where I am Now " - It's always true & bears keeping in mind. I consider myself fortunate in having traveled a lot - New Zealand, Central & South America, All around the USA - Several pilgrimages to Cheser, Ill.  I've lived a nomadic lifestyle for many of my year. So my travel itch is well satiated I'm happy to say - Having said that, there's nothing quite as meditative  4) What would you say are the main features of your creative process(s)? Improvisation, Collaboration, Spontaneity 5) What do you really want your audience to understand about you/your art? I'm indi...

1)       Who are you? Who is me, Volker? I am Volker “Bauli” Störtebeker (nickname derived from Bauland my offstage real lastname)  and I hail from the fair city of Groningen (Grönn/Grønn/Grunn) situated in the north of the Netherlands. Oh yeah, Holland doesn’t exist (as official country name). I am a trombonist, selftought didgeridooist, sousaphonist and euphoniumist. I play in a lot of different constellations but I reckon most know me of Terbeschikkingstelling (experimental improv noise). My oldest band is skaband Knight Susan. Also I like trying everything and like putting bad jokes in music, hence I also created Dolph S. Lundgren in which I combine my sense of humor with crude artwork and raw noisish stuff, which I like to call wacky noise. Next to making art I also organise a soundart festival “het Rumoer” and a skafest “Skasjock”. 2)       Can you describe your surroundings? Yes I could. I live above a cornerhome in a...

1) Who are you? https://soundcloud.com/user-451414046/1-emptiness 2) Can you describe your surroundings? https://soundcloud.com/user-451414046/2-1 3) Where would you like to go? https://soundcloud.com/user-451414046/3-fill 4) What would you say are the main features of your creative process? https://soundcloud.com/user-451414046/4-chaos 5) What do you really want your audience to understand about your art? https://soundcloud.com/user-451414046/5-anxiety 6) Does audience matter? https://soundcloud.com/user-451414046/6-cheer-up 7) Why Resist? https://soundcloud.com/user-451414046/7-resilience 8) Why do you do it? https://soundcloud.com/user-451414046/8-truth 9) What drives you? https://soundcloud.com/user-451414046/9-laught 10) What do you do in your daily life? https://soundcloud.com/user-451414046/10-factory 11) Do you have any strategies for adapting to the challenges of existing in your unnatural environment? If so, what are they? https://soundcloud.com/user-451414046/11-evolution 1...