Interview
Loss Grief and Acceptance in music By Robert Halvarsson
grieving, loss, melancholia and finally, of a strong sense of renewal, acceptance and peacefulness.
and I'm happy to finally having an opportunity to know that it's as good as it will ever get, and let the Wusik Sound Magazine is public decide the rest. And from honored to feature an interview reading this particular response with HC, the anonymous writer First off, let me congratulate you you should gather that it's a of Headphone Commute, who’ve to the release of ‌ and darkness pretty complicated mixed feeling, just released the massive benefit came one which I still haven't been able album ‌ and darkness came, to clinically define. I'm riding this with all income going straight How does it feel to finally see this wave, and I'm letting it toss me... towards benefit-organizations work released unto the public? that, amongst other things, help - It's a bit unreal, very elating, and Benefit-albums are not usually American continental victims of a little sad at the same time. I associated with ambient, hurricane Sandy. mean, how am I ever going to top experimental and neo-classical this accomplishment? I've worked composers; do you think this First listening to the album, it so long on this project that I might be a step in broadening the comes by as hard to describe. cannot imagine myself doing conception of musical aid? There is nothing orthodox about anything else. On the other hand, - I would say that artists of all it. Being a collaborative album I don't feel like I chose to do this - walks of life come together to which features a whole lot of the project chose me. From the help each other on a usual basis. composers, this transcends rigidly second that I had the idea of Musicians revolve in family defined genres, but many pieces creating a benefit compilation I oriented communities where they could be said to go by definitions was already dreading a little (to constantly rely on each other's such as neo-classical, be honest) all of the hard work aid. Perhaps music of more experimental and ambient music. that I had to do to make it happen commercial genres is more It could be seen as a coherent - but at the same time I knew that prominent, but benefit albums of sound image of more than six only I could do this, and it's all styles exist. A compilation by hours of music, which contains something that had to be done. At ambient, experimental, and neoacoustic interpretations on the end it became an obsession, classical composers only 12