interview
AN INTERVIEW WITH Justin Lassen Q. Hello Justin, could you introduce yourself to our readers and how you got started in 3D... Oops… music? Hi. I’m Justin. I am a composer, independent producer and art director/graphic artist and I’m 25 years old. I’m selftaught. I think it was during the early years in school. Since I was a child, the music and drama classes in school were always my favorites, so I worked hard to get myself into the top music classes whenever possible. I hadn’t really thought about it being a professional career until around 1996. That’s when I noticed my interest and focus started increasing drastically. I don’t think I’ve had my “big break” yet, but my first break was perhaps the Robert Miles remix with the London Session Orchestra tracks, which was an incredibly fun (if terrifying) glimpse into what “high production values” means. Q. So, you are creating music for still 3D-2D images, please tell us what the main basic idea/technique behind this is? The basic idea is to bring the scene to life through necessary. This could mean melody, themes, moIt really depends on what the scene calls for. The technique is definitely more emotional some rules, I’d say Gaussian blur calls for objects and shapes in the scene and tion of the recording, and
points painted into the mine pacing. The mood and is determined by the color palette Feel free to bust me on those if you what you’ve seen and heard in the Syaware of what I’m doing. It just seems scious. I just know what it needs, but to be able to describe it more cluefully,
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music and audible texture, by whatever means tifs, counterpoint, minimalism or other things. than scientific, but if I had to boil it down to reverb, brighter colors call for louder sounds, overall composition determines the duraperceived camera movement and action
scene detertexture in the recording and tone in the painting. notice they’re not consistent with naesthesia pieces. I’m not entirely to bubble up from the subconI don’t know exactly why. I’d love but I suspect I’m more of an artist
Issue 4 June 2007
