Talka by OID, Egor Sukharev, New Composers

A wide horizon of sounds opening doors of the unexpected always keeping you awake, like a storytelling driving your ears into a beautiful vision.

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Interview of OID
Questions by Florian Haik Schirmacher

Q:
First of all thank you for your music. You let me listened more closer. I see the world different now. Gravity becomes sound. Can you tell us a bit about your research?
OID:
I wouldn't call it research because I'm not a scientist indeed. It's a kind of blind search of light in a dark room. It's just the way I keep my memory. Nothing really special.

Q
In a time where we urge to stick together. You are releasing your album, like an open book. A wide horizon of sounds. You choose sounds as eternal messenger, as storyteller? And the way, you keep our ears driving into your vision, is always keeping us awake. Is there any translation possible?

I hope it needs no translation- my goal is to make my message clear for everyone, no matter race, gender, age e.t.c e.t.c . It's just a question of education. I believe that I can save something important in audio files besides music itself. My experience, which led me to this thought, is very simple. When I just started to make music- there were no powerful computers. Atari ST1040 as a MIDI sequencer and DAT recorder as a final destination. And the sampler (Ensoniq ASR-10)had only 16 MB of memory and I thought that it could be a good message in the bottle - to record parts, fragments aiming bigger sound possibilities in the future. So I was recording parts of 8 channel sequencer to DAT, dreaming that in the future I will be able to get back to it. And now these old recordings are basically forming my current sound. Something I can't find elsewhere. These sounds are always an element that was missing. So this practice leads me to deeper understanding of what Time really is and how sound can become a time machine.

Q:
What is creativity?
OID:
You know, the creative producer in an advertising agency is not the same as a creative producer in an own abyss. Creativity can be different. Creative way of thinking is the key to enjoy life no matter what you do. I call this creativity. But in my case, I think it's a kind of mental disease. It can be weird but with music it's always interesting. It's neverending wow.

Q:
We tend to explain everything. Limiting a mindset into places, communities...even emotions can missleading. You are mixing street sounds and complex harmonies borderless into a sensual stream of sound. Is this a critical attitude?

OID:
How can we be non-critical without loosing ourselves? How can we be thankful and selective as well? it's a critical attitude, but I don't want to make it sound better, I try to keep it as it is maximum as possible. And it's very important for me. I can make 15-20 versions, arrangements just to understand that second version was the right one. And for me it's still like that. There's some print in music, which is kind of meta text or meta data, which can just disappear the more I try to make it sound 'good'. But my constant critical attitude bothers me to just record without any thought. It's the hardest thing for me actually - to switch off part of my brain which keeps analysing everything and just let the events happen in a random way .

Q:
Hovered/layered tones and well centered as well. Listening to your album evolves and entangles at the same time. Can you feel a connection between healing and listening? For me it's super clear. Music can be healing and can be destructive. my internal captain obvious says it's a huge power in music . agatha power,) Your music is a start of a creative process, an invitation of an inner research. Is healing a process of community, facing another reality, expressed through music?

OID:
The lightest fragments I recorded were made in the darkest moods and it's the way music is healing. When I have no words to describe the madness and nightmare and sorrow of all existence - The only thing keeps me alive is to dive into music. There's always a hope. in every beginning there's a story to end in a circle of enemies there's always a friend... Numbers with its relationships have similarities to music. Maybe its gravity, maybe a cosmic relation. Some do believe that numbers can heal.

Q:
Do you think music can do?

OID:
Numbers are very important. and the enigma of ether is somewhere close to it. Nowadays most sequencers have a default 120 BPM. It's aliquot and simple to divide and multiply - you easily get 60 or 240. But the matrix opens when you set tempo to 111.
And I was trying many times - 110 and 112 not working the same way.

Q:
And if so, can we gain a healing process with music? What would be necessary to gain the healing process with music?

OID:
YES. I DO You maybe know the piece "Verse la flamme" by Aleksandr Skrjabin, who learned at moscow Conservatory hundred years ago. Abstract thank you! What is behind a message? I seek to find! What is its essence? I try to dig and find it How do we articulate the unspoken? Only time will count and show You open doors of the unexpected.

Q:
You gain an energy field with dynamic and devotion to sound. Has techno opened a door towards this perception?

OID:
Of course. Electronic music, I would say How can we listen more close? Give yourself a chance and privilege to listen same music in different moods at different times of the year, but the most unexpected is the most interesting!

Q:
How can we heal ourselves with music?

OID:
Easily. The mind is forming the matter, soul and mind are working together and the high you get from music can be very healthy for your soul and body. If you dance for several hours feeling ecstatic - it can be more powerful and healing than going to the boring Fitness.

Q:
Can you describe to process of reconnecting through your music?

OID:
It's always a message in the bottle to myself . I record something then I forget.. And suddenly finding it years after.. it's a bit fatal way of making music but it's the way i do. I was never interested in just get some skills and start to stamp well produced and mastered tracks. I believe that music is something beyond.

Q:
How do we perceive ourselves? Like an inner journey?

OID:
just get yourself together.

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