Artist Spotlight - A Setting Sun
Photo credit to: Mike Perry
MGT ASKS:
What’s your hometown?
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
What instruments do you use in your music making?
laptop computer, FL Studio, Max/MSP, Adobe Audition, MIDI keyboard, samples, guitar.
What albums inspired you to start making (electronic) music?
Company Flow-Funcrusher Plus
Squarepusher-Hard Normal Daddy
DJ Krush-Cold Krush Cuts
What have you been working on recently?
Developing a heart of compassion
Moving toward computer-programming-oriented music-making
Making a house album with Zach Saginaw
Learning more about composition and experimental music
Name 5 records that you’re listening to right now?
Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!
Eyvind Kang - The Story of Iceland
V/A - Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach
Yuka Honda - Eucademix
Estradasphere - Palace of Mirrors
If you could collaborate with any musician who would it be? What do you think the result would sound like?
Ikue Mori. It would be the perfect balance between the rational (me) and the irrational (Ikue Mori): the yin and yang, the fire and water, the masculine and feminine of laptop music. She and I would make love on the track. Oh my god. It would have to be under my Iggy Ignotius alias.
Share with us a site that you go to almost every day that isn’t music-related?
www.mapmyrun.com
What’s your dream gig?
A stage in an otherwise bare and empty room. Hours-long ambient/noise set in which only one note is played continuously, both by electronic and acoustic instruments. Monks and laypeople meditate. Focus is not on the music itself but on the meditation and the interplay between the two. My friend Al DiBlassio and I have big dreams for this.
Last but not least, promote a friend’s music, who do you know that is underrated?
Charles Tillinghast aka Sachiyo. One of my biggest influences since day one
UPCOMING RELEASES ON MOODGADGET:
A Setting Sun - “Views From The Real World”
SITES:
A Setting Sun’s Myspace
