Formula Indie Sessions _ Interview with Spyndycyt
What is your earliest memory connected to music?
The one I remember most distinctly is sitting in the back of a car when I was about 5 years old and being transfixed by the song on the radio, which I later learned was “Another Brick in the Wall, Parts 1 and 2” by Pink Floyd.
How did your passion for creating music begin?
Honestly, I experienced something of a mental meltdown a number of years ago, which I wouldn’t wish on anyone, and for whatever reason it reordered my brain with a certain ability to hear things and piece them together in ways I hadn’t previously realized I was able. Now I can’t stop the process even when I’ve tried.
What’s the story behind your current music project?
I seem always to have several different projects in development at any one time, each usually in a different phase, but the genesis never varies much. A melody or chorus or lyric or beat will pop into my head and I have the makings of a song which needs to be completed someday. I have about 500 such ideas on my phone at the moment, so I need to live for about another thousand years.
How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard your music before?
I think it may be a bit hard to nail down, as testified to by the many different labels pinned to my songs in various reviews. I’ve heard or read everything from synth-pop to avant-garde to dance to synth-folk to “challenging.”
What is one thing you’ve learned that completely changed the way you make music?
I’ll just say that Queen made it very difficult for me to write anything that doesn’t have a lot of layered vocals! I just love both harmony and an overall “full” sound.
What tools, instruments, or software are essential in your creative process?
I use Logic Pro as my digital audio workstation from start to finish. I’m impressively technophobic by nature and even I have been able to figure out Logic to some extent, which is really saying something.
Which indie artist or song are you loving right now?
It’s an old-school reference, but a current project has me trying to dissect “Plainsong” by The Cure. The power behind those opening bars is just astonishing.
How have your personal experiences influenced your music and artistic vision?
I really wish I had a great story here, but if there even is an answer to this one I haven’t figured it out yet. There’s just so much astounding beauty in the world, and I suppose at the heart of my desire to write music is a hope that I’ll be able to contribute to that beauty in some fashion.
What emotions or messages do you hope listeners take from your work?
I’d love them to feel everything along the path from despair to enduring hope to ultimate triumph, because that’s what life is to me and music has been there every step of the way.
What’s the most important lesson music has taught you so far?
As cliche as it certainly sounds, music is teaching me that achieving dreams is possible. Every link in the chain of music production has been a struggle for me in one form or another, yet I look back from where I started and can hardly believe the progress I’ve made.
What is a dream venue or festival you would love to perform at?
Man, I’d like to perform just about everywhere! A few dreams I feel more acutely are Red Rocks in Morrison, CO, USA, and Summerfest, Milwaukee, WI, USA, just because I have a good bit of personal experience with them as a fan and I can already feel what it would be like to walk out onto those stages.
If you could collaborate with any artist, past or present, who would it be and why?
If I had to limit my options, Peter Gabriel. I just have so many questions about how his mind works musically.
Where can our listeners follow and support your music?
I tend to release my projects most faithfully to SoundCloud and Bandcamp. I’m also on Spotify. This question reinforces for me how terrible I am at the promotional side of this industry – how I wish I could just write songs and people would magically hear them!
Looking toward the future, what’s your dream for the next chapter of your musical journey?
It’s decidedly lacking in glamor and reminds me how slowly the gears grind in my journey, but as long as I’m toiling in obscurity here I’ve realized that I absolutely need to learn the mixing and mastering processes for myself. Most of my released stuff has been recorded with abysmal techniques, which handicaps mixing to begin with, and I’ve recognized that in many cases I need to start all over in order to produce music that sounds decent across all listening platforms. Maybe someday Rick Rubin will happen upon me and insist on making all my problems go away, but in the meantime I’ve got some improving to do. 😊
What do you hope listeners will discover about you along the way?
I’d like my listeners to find me simultaneously enigmatic and relatable, that together we might reach for the infinite.
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