Letter from the Music Editor | Issue 12

Letter from the Music Editor | Issue 12

There is something about the creative process that remains amorphous to me. As I write this, Dunedin is in the midst of DWRF 2017 (Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival), a week that is all about creative spirit and the power of the written word. I stand on the awkward eve of explaining to a room of festivalgoers the mind that created the lyric. Some things can’t be expressed in words. If I could explain through sound that dark, enigmatic, primal self that emerges somewhere between the lightbulb above the head and the final completed song, I imagine it would resemble an ambient techno or experimental noise set, two genres of music that are as mysterious to me as the process of building a song.

This week, it’s all about the space between the known and the unknown, and the powerful creative minds who work within it. I catch up with Auckland-based DJ and promoter, Marie Celeste Lawrence (a.k.a. Jaded Nineties Raver) a few days out from a NZ tour with Keepsakes and UK techno producer Ansome. Renee Barrance interviews Montreal-based sound artist, Sasha Ford (a.k.a. Blankets), who recently appeared at Dunedin’s experimental music festival, Lines of Flight. And Ihlara McIndoe reconnects with the baroque beauty of Bach, classical ambience of Respighi, and transcendent potential of Mozart, channelled through the DSO.

 

Bianca

This article first appeared in Issue 12, 2017.
Posted 12:31pm Sunday 21st May 2017 by Bianca Prujean.