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Note: Due to the impossibility of sending in my own questions, Collapse Under The Empire have sent me an interview that was unpublished for me to use for this article. I would like to thank them for helping out!
Songs by C.U.T.E. are very emotional and deep, how do you come up with new concepts and approaches for your tracks? Do you have a worked out scheme or is each one different?
Chris The way we compose a new C.U.T.E. track is always different. Most often we compose whatever is in us at the time together in our small studio. Sometimes, within only a few hours, we have the complete framework, which we then refine. We use a great variety of instruments when we compose. "Shoulders & Giants" is now available for Along with drums, guitars, and free online streaming on Grooveshark and bass, we also use stringed to purchase at instruments and synthesizers. For http://collapseundertheempire.com/shop/ us, there are no set rules to creativity. Anything is possible!
Experimenting with various music styles is also important and very interesting. Perhaps the emotional depth of many tracks can only be explained by themselves.
How much does influence from other artists affect power of blogs that offer illegal, free downloads shouldn't C.U.T.E. and it's works nowadays? And how much does be underestimated either. It's too bad that many people music affect development of people and their lives don't pay for those downloads, but thanks to them, name today? recognition also goes up a lot faster. I don't believe that we Matt: These questions are difficult to answer. Our music is meant to give the listener a certain feeling, emotion, and “story” to experience. We try best we can to take the listeners on a trip in which they can fully immerse themselves. Post Rock was of course created by blending many different genres of music together. But the genre fused together at the end of the 90s because of bands like Tortoise, GSYBE or Mogwai. The fact that there are so many bands making instrumental music clearly shows that the music is dear to people's hearts and that it can thrive on people's desire to reject commercial and societal pressures to conform. This music has no commercial value and in spite of this enjoys a worldwide audience and has created its own niche.
What do you think about music industry as a business and successfully making the living out of being a musician? Chris: We see these changes in nowadays music industry as a very good opportunity for young, up-and-coming bands, since it's so easy to produce an album and release it yourself. In any case, it worked out that way for us. Everything that we released up until now was something we did with our own hands, so to speak. Self-promotion has never been as easy as it is now. You need only to search for contact addresses on the internet and send a few friendly emails with an MP3 download link attached. The
would have attracted the international attention that we have if we weren't listed on so many of these blogs.
How much does the personal opinion of each of you both mean during the creative process? Are you accepting only the ideas you both like or are you adopting every idea that one of you has cane up with? Chris: The division of work was clear quite quickly. We both write the music together, usually extemporaneously. We both determined that the quick, spontaneous development of songs reflects their origins best. If we work on a song for weeks, it loses most of its spirit. The best ideas happen without having a clear idea already in your head of what it should be. It can also happen, though, that one of us has already “pre-packaged” song structures or even a complete, finished song. Martin plays all of the stringed instruments, while I'm responsible for the ones with keys. The drums are usually done by both of us. Beyond that, Martin is responsible for all of the music production. The work in our own studio has given us the advantage of simply having more room to experiment creatively without having to worry about time.
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