woven
Woven:
ORY (sing guitar)
MIKE (digitalia)
RICH (skins)
MARC (other skins)
JONNY (bass guitar)
STEVE (rich bro six string)
DANA (sound tweak)
describe woven:
RICH - multimedia experience
DANA - generic cliche pop rock
*paraplegic homosexual hardcore
*other music - everything music
MARC - very open to interpretations
orsynthetic
= organic + orsynthanic:
STEVE - a lot of to do with the orsynthanic is that there are certain elements
of improvisation that happens that makes the synthetic mixture of all elements
actually organic
MARC - not just fact we use digital stuff and acoustic stuff...it is more
attitude of using machine world/electronic digital world and using the attitude
that comes along with it.....it evokes a certain something that is on all levels
which is orsynthanic
JONNY - a mixture of monotony and chaos
EPRIME:
STEVE - ever since Alfred
Korzybski set out to change the whole semantic world with this idea we have
embraced it in our own way which has helped up settle conflicts and
disputes....just stating that what we say comes from just one opinion one point
of view...and since there are so many points of views in the band and so much of
it can be sources of arguments especially when writing and playing music...we
just state where we are coming from so that it doesn't allow "gods
hammer" to come down and say this is how it is...
JONNY - there is no absolute the cool thing about eprime is that it actually
just gets us communicating and communication is probably the most important
thing is that no matter if someone speaks their opinion in an extreme way or
gets angry the fact that we are using our words to move through the progress of
this band.............the eprime concept is a cool concept to talk about it
because it gets us instead of repressing things that turn into cancer or anger
MARC - its all words spoke in a voice outlet....we are so open about anything
and everything....something that is as anarchistic as woven that has so many of
us...it really works because we have a respect for everyones opinion in that
eprime sort of way everyone feels comfortable expressing themselves its sort of
a constant
8bit monk:
MIKE - I think its safe to say we weren't going for anything per say...the ep
was thrown together in about 3 weeks whereas we took 7 months on the full
length....which gave us time to not only realize an extended version of our
visions but also to work out parts live
STEVE - with 8 bit monk there was a lot of different processes that helped
cultivate to make that music that three weeks of scrambling didn't allow.....
JONNY - the thing with the ep was that it wasn't the amount of time to finish it
when made the record deal but that a lot of those songs we've been working on
for years....like solder me, beautiful, and steady and tesion too were songs
we've been working on for years...and what you hear on the ep was the finished
product that which getting interscope backing and helping getting the right
equipment to get the right sounds. The songs even though they are electronic,
it's a very organic process...it takes times it doesn't just happen
spontaneously
MARC - as far as the difference between eprime and 8bitmonk is that im sure
there is a progression...but it is hard for me to see that because all of us
come from such a improvisational place that 8 bit monk is the product of those
few months....its not that we are aiming for anything like that and eprime is
the product of the buildup before interscope came in and more of the capture of
that moment or time period
RICH - also a note on that...many songs on 8bitmonk were from the past as
well...songs such as astral low were around before eprime was written...its not
really a progression its more of a period of in between and around those
recordings
inspiration:
STEVE - I think all of us share a mutual respect for the way we see the world
and see our mortality...and because a lot of psychedelic drugs and life
experiences shape the way we think about things I think there is no absolute we
all agree or come to...we are ultimately in a vast ocean of questions and that
by our process of playing music and being around one another we further those
questions and not necessarily get to any answers......because of that we remain
open-minded and completely undiscriminating of the things that we talk
about...and I think that openness is shared a lot by the climate of what people
are in their heads and their hearts and we are willing to ask those questions
and be on that brink of the unknown by just exploring everything...any and
everything
not playing music:
frisbee, hiking, shoe shopping (rich), visual arts, writing
accomplish:
*musical respect
JONNY - open mindedness through music
MARC- putting music to film - scoring
*world peace
*featured on The Simpsons
MIKE - I think its safe to say that it is ultimately it is up to what you leave
behind when you are gone....I think we are at a collective striving to leave
something behind that can be appreciated by future generations and current
generations and hopefully past generations/....basically an appreciation of true
innovation
MARC - well with accomplishment...what do you want to accomplish? Well to feel
we have accomplished something....and there is something about accomplishing
something positively for a positive goal we are people who look out toward the
world and see how sort of fucked up things are...and it would be great if we
could manifest something that is a positive influence in the world that would
counteract that which is so much negative
STEVE - ultimately at the same time I would like to rein orate mikes point of
view earlier that there is no one thing that we set out for it is more of a ca
sera sera situation...what we accomplish today is all about what we experience
at the moment what we do now...and if other people find out what we do and find
the positive in it that will be what they might remember.
(interview/photos: travis lawrence)
