JULIAN LYNCH “SEED” VIDEO from OESB // FUTURE SOUND on Vimeo.
Some food for thought to accompany this gorgeous–and I find, very autumnal–new music video by Amy Ruhl, straight from an interview I conducted with songwriter, ethnomusicology grad student, and all-around good-natured fellow Julian Lynch this month on Orange You Glad, his debut lp:
“We live in a time where we can look back on the history of the music we are exposed to (given a very readily accessible and relatively thorough material record literally at our fingertips), and consider how so many generations of musical mixing or borrowing or appropriation or straight-up pillaging have taken place all over the continents. And so, you can listen to some music made today, and ask (without any hope of ever finding an answer), “Did this sound come from gamelan or from Debussy? From Hindustani classical or from the Beatles? From Michael Jackson or Tollywood? From Monsoon or from Mahavishnu Orchestra or from Ravi Shankar or from La Monte Young?” and so on and so on, so that a sound or an instrument is so far removed from its original context that it immediately refers to a thousand disparate sources at once.
That is something that I’m super fascinated by: the result of these constant back-and-forth processes of borrowing. It’s like the way language changes and develops. And obviously its an essential part of all musical change, but today’s resources like the internet have intensified and accelerated things, so that it happens EVERYWHERE, all the time [...] What I’m getting at is that locating a source of creative inspiration or influence is sometimes a complicated task.”
–Julian Lynch, October 2009. Stay tuned for the complete interview on Tiny Mix Tapes, later in October.
Orange You Glad was released in August 2009 by Olde English Spelling Bee.
Tags: Amy Ruhl, Future Sound, Julian Lynch, Olde English Spelling Bee, Orange You Glad, Seed
Cool video (which I may have to post myself). I’m looking forward to the interview. I like when artists are conscious of how they borrow from others and thoughtful of the process. It often makes their own creations much more interesting, and particularly fun for the listener who, knowing that the artist is conscious of his/her own borrowings, can playfully search for traces of influence, overlappings sounds and progressions, etc.