I plan to publish music via distrokid, so i don't have to bother with micromanage each and every account.
I use Distrokid too, it's a terrible platform, with awful analytics tools with a super creepy CEO. But it does, like you said, centralizes a lot of pain of maintaining multiple platforms at once. iTunes/Spotify/etc are terrible platforms moneywise, for me. Most of my music income comes from Bandcamp.
The audience will have to find me.
When has that ever worked.
have you seen waitbutwhy's TED talk on procrastination?
I have, it came back to me when I read about OMNI.
- how do you shower and do laundry with your lifestyle?
You should have a look at this
I would be able to react in traffic quickly enough
There is still traffic on the waters.
I imagine getting a boat liscence (is that even a thing?)
No, not for Canadian citizen anyways. There's this.
- are you musically trained? like do you write sheet music and know music theory?
I am not, but I can read/write(I never wrote tho). I write tabs instead, it makes more sense to me.
- do you advertise your work? things like SEO counts.
I don't, and I even turn off robots.txt for my site. Don't do it tho.
- what's your approach when you perform live? like what is it that you usually do on stage?
It depends, I did all sort of different shows. Sometimes it's all improvisational, like the Leap Motion stuff I did. Or sometimes it's algorithmic patterns mixing, so like Ehrivevnv Studies, where it, basically, "makes cool music tuned depending which key I press, like play-something-in-C#". One time I've only DJed and mixed cool visuals on top and that was enough to handle in itself.
do you always bring your own equipment
Yeah, you don't want to rely on other people's stuff. ESPECIALLY FOR VISUALS.
what equipment do you usually use aside from your laptop and controller?
It varies so much, I couldn't say.
how was your first time performing in for an audience and how did you prepare for it?
Terrifying, but among a handful of friends and was a total blast.
- how do you approach songwriting?
I tend to write the song in my head entirely, and just put it down in one setting. I always write music about the Neauismetica, it seems to be a mental place, a pool of endless musical idea. Sometimes I think I may someday reach the end of the well, but I'm fine with that.
What is it you want to express/communicate/show? How? Why?
I like to do storytelling, bring people into the worlds in my head. I want to use this to lure interesting people toward me, so I can in return, learn and be inspired from them.
The amount of detail in your work, the little glitches and sound effects so tastefully and spontaneously thrown in throughout your tracks are very impressive, they almost sound like they were made firsthand with the track growing out of them afterward.
I actually write the textures before the leads, I usually do texture and drums as one. The leads, which are always very simple, and dronelike, having no clear notes.
Would you reduce your workflow to something similar, or completely different?
My method doesn't make much sense on paper, but it has yeilded fun results. I don't really like the formula of writing the leads first. You know, in drawing, when you draw a face, the first thing you should do, is the nose.
- So i reversed searched your current profilepic as well as the previous one you've had for a long while.
Haha, well, you'd have to see the movies. But for Alicia Celestnova, there was a few things I liked. That actress plays in a lot of good movies with amazing soundtracks, actually some of my favourite OSTs. Her name in the movie is Alice, which resonated with me. The latest one, is just one of my fav movie lately, it's terrible, but it's also very good.
But these shots have been memorable to me, like you said, they share some of the aesthetics that I cherrish.
- have you ever considered becoming a scientist of some kind?
Everyday, but I think it's only half the puzzle. Art and science are my two loves. I want to be able to, someday, to move between the two. With the sailboat, I'm feeling like I'm exploring the other half and it makes my days all the better. I would be a sweel engeneer, but all that time I would be wanting to be an artist.
- this is a bit of a continuation of how i've previously asked about your names and aliases, but i didn't really feel like i got to the bottom of it: lietal, nataniev, hiversaires, horaire, ledoliel.
mhm.
surely these are original names?
Yes, they are.
how do you even come up with them?
It's like you said, it's the funky vowels that makes it this signature. Sometimes I feel like I've started a trend.
- do you feel it's important to separate your thoughts from others in the context of journaling/logging/documenting. or do you not mind to let it all be a mess of mutated ideas from all sorts of directions.
Mhmm, I try as much as possible to not try and solve two things at once. It's why I try to not multi-task. I think often about my subcouncious, and try to poke it and sense if it's hard a work solving something, or at rest. I seem to have these 1-2 days cycles that it takes to solve any problem, so like, I would begin thinking about how to produce this imagery, or sound, or watever. And no matter what, about 2 days later, it will come naturally to me. So, I've been offloading some tasks like that. Not sure how that works exactly, but it's been a great help.
- do you ever feel like mapping out, tracking and systemizing life as you do demystifies the romance of life and its random events?
No, not at all. It just makes it all the more curious, and nothing is more interesting to me, than trying to understand freewill, determinism, and the other romances of time. I just see this as an infinite pool of wonders. I write about it often.
- do you still follow the same regimen of one productivity based task per day?
I do.
don't you feel like that leads to unbalance since there's nothing that helps you move on to different types of activities when you're done with that task for the day?
I have started answering that question here.
Don't you fail to estimate the time of a task sometimes because the task may fork out in new ways that were hard (if not impossible) to predict, putting the planned completion of the task several hours ahead. example: task of the day is to make and publish a track, but along the way you encounter website troubles of publishing the track.
That comes down to poor planning. I do have a task that reads similar to "publish a track", but that's surely not the same as what you think it means. To me, it means resizing the album artwork and publish the rendered tracks on the different platforms and sites. It's a day of mostly managing social presence. I usually don't try to have tasks like "Release some cool shit", Instead, I break it down to 2-3 hours tasks.
i mean i suppose you could just act by common sense and postpone it to the next day, but that's not a very elegant solution on a psychological level
That's just awful, like you said, because then you have "planning failures" almost everyday.
so this i feel is the disadvantage of not going by a time-based schedule that keeps you punctually on track.
Try both, I have. I've picked something that worked with my schedule and methods. Don't just do my unitasking method because you heard it from me :)
i do four tasks a day by a 6:3:3:3 hour ratio, for a 15 hour window each day
That's crazy, I don't think I have ever EVER had more than 5-6 hours of productive work in any one day(as of 2018, my average work day is of 5.88h). I tend to work in the morning, and do other things in the afternoon.
how do you solve it? is it even a problem for you? maybe you're not someone who drifts without structure?
I try to work hard in the morning, undisturbed. And gradually exit flow throughout the early afternoon, and the evenings, I read or browse, injest basically. So when I go to sleep, I have some material to cogitate over.
- where do you buy clothes? any brands or frequented online stores or are do you take a scavenger approach?
Women section of thrift stores. it's the best.
- many if not all of your photos have these characteristic colors, is it a camera filter/setting, or just how everything looks with that camera of yours? or maybe everything is done digitally in post and you're just super consistent?
That's interesting, I've been thinking about this recently. Well, I shoot with film, so that has its own texture I suppose. Also, I always take my pictures in the early morning, so the hues are blue, and the light sharp.
how to not sound so damn "demo" when making music.
When you do your first pass, and record mistakes and artifacts, keep them, and find a way to make them sound good by itterating over them instead of erasing them. My tracks are full of recording pops and bugs and glitches, but I wounded them into the songs and when I hear them today I remember.
About soundpacks
Try this, spend like a WEEK, 7 days, over a month or watever. And build yourself your soundpack, make the nin soundtrack that you'll use for the next few years. I have built an "Aliceffekt Pack", spent countless hours just building that up, and it what gives it its sound. You should do just that.