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an interview with
Zoë: I want to start off with your new EP The Wound Is A Gift. What do you think was different about this compared to what you’ve done before?
Sophia: So for the EP, it was definitely my first trial at actually producing a body of work that’s more of a musical composition rather than something that’s more noise based, I guess. So with that, it definitely took a lot. That was honestly a year-long process, even though it’s only a couple of songs, it was all on me, in a way. I definitely produced that all myself. And then I did get a little bit help with mastering it. But other than that, it was all on me.
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Z: I feel like when I was listening to it, I heard some influences. My favorite track is Phantom, and I feel the underlying bass to it is 80s house/techno, a little bit. I know that you like Dreamcrusher, Machine Girl, and The Garden. Are those some influences or what are some influences that helped with not just that track, but all of your work?
S: I really do think those are still some of my influences, especially just considering the timeline of just music that I’ve discovered over the years. Definitely those bands and the New York digital hardcore scene, those bands are one of the reasons I realized I could do this, too. Just being at those live shows, there’s just so much energy and I just felt at home going to see those bands. And about Phantom, my influence for that song was just trying to make people dance.
Z: Love that. Besides musical influences, do you feel like there’s any other media that influences your aesthetic overall with your work?
S: I don’t know about media. Definitely just everything we see influences us. A cool looking stain, that’s influential. But for my own personal work, I really take influence from past experiences, like maybe not so great experiences and traumatic things, and use that as fuel to be creative instead of fuel to be destructive.
Z: That makes sense. I feel like a lot of artists take past experiences like that and weld them into something artistic and emotional. So when you create, do you have a specific creative process? Something ritualistic?
