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JadeWeb
: Quel est votre premier souvenir musical ou sonore ?
Vivaldi Four Seasons, which for some reason I remember my parents
playing all the time after I was born. I think it was important to
me because it was a musical work that made sense even as early as
1 or 2 years old. Music isreally an easy concept for children to grasp,
and the idea that this work was blatantly connected to a tangible
phenomenon (the changing of the seasons) helped me see the connection
between musical sound and the thoughts/feelings/actions it was trying
to convey. The same went for Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev, and
later on in elementary school, I had the same experience listening
to Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens. I remember it being
very exciting to be able to identify sound this way
Quels
artistes ou chansons ont marqué votre jeunesse ?
First
album I remember listening to on my own was "Slippery When Wet" by
Bon Jovi. I thought it was cool that we both spelled our first names
the same way, and we were both from New Jersey. First album I bought
was "Open Up and Say "Ahhh" by Poison, followed by "Appetite for Destruction";
by Guns N' Roses. It was that kind of stuff that impacted me during
early adolescence, and then I discovered Danzig and that blew the
doors off everything 'd known previously.
Pensiez-vous
travailler dans la musique ? Que souhaitiez-vous devenir plus
tard ?
When
I was a kid I wanted to be an archaeologist. Then a baseball player.
But from 8 years old on, all I ever wanted to be was a heavy metal
guitar god, even in the midst of my classical guitar studies from
age 10-17. Somewhere I got sidetracked and discovered ambient music.
Then I got really sidetracked and discovered country music. I recently
graduated from NYU with a degree in Music Technology. I guess I still
haven' made up my mind as to what I want to be.
Y
a t’il des sons désagréables (ou agréables) qui
ont marqué votre jeunesse ?
I grew
up on a beach in New Jersey, and in the winter the place was completely
desolate. Just ocean sounds and sea gulls.
Est-ce
que vos parents ont participé à votre éducation
musicale ?
. no.
Pouvez-vous
raconter un souvenir d’enfance marquant, relatif à la musique
(concert, spectacle…) ?
Seeing Paula and Carole (from Paula and Carole's Magic Garden) perform
at the Bergen Mall. To this day it's the most drugged out, psych-folk,
hippy album I own
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Votre
Top 5 de l’enfance
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There's
a theme running through here, isn't there? Are you sure you're
not really writing this for "Parent's Drone Weekly"; or something?
I think I may be misinterpreting 'childhood" because it makes
me think of being 5 years old, which may not be what you're
asking for. But I'd rather talk about that than adolescence.
Jon's Top 5 from age 5:
1) Fat crayons
2)
Oatmeal cookies
3) Drawing on the wall
4) Dinosaurs
5)
The New York Yankees
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