Whispering Rogue

Currently On Stage we have Moranis who is the electro wizard alter ego of Bass player from the Super Florence Jam, Alex Tulett.

We caught up with Moranis after his gig at the Excelsior in Surry Hills.

 

Paul: Moranis that was audible feast of sounds sights and delights, how do you think you went?

Moranis: Ah, you know, it's still early days for the project I'm still kinda finding my feet with the sounds and with the technology. I'm no techbuff so doing electronic music is kind of as experimental as it gets cause everything I do is an experiment. I've never done this stuff before so if I come across something good then that's experimental, soI'm happy about that.

Cam: It's funny that you say early days, Imyself have seen you progress since you started this project and Igotta tell you it's a lot different from the last time I saw you. What ideas have you had to make this change from what it was from when you started to what it is now?

Moranis: Well when I started makingthis music, cause it's predominately electronic I was kinda doing it cause I figured I don't know how to do anything else so I thought I'd learn this I mean if I'm going to learn anything I 'm gonna learn something that I like the sounds of. So it was all about sounds and I really wasn't writing with any depth, then I read an interview with the group "Boards of Canada"who are a big influence of mine in which that started talking about what their songs mean and they were going into real depth about theseelectronic songs which hit me because I hadn't even considered putting meaning into these songs. That I think is what has separated the newstuff that I've been doing, that there is a reason now that I do everything instead of just being sound. So maybe that's what's changed.

Cam: You certainly look like you're in the zone when you're playing, what feeling does this kind of music give you?

Moranis: Overall listening to this kinda of music is just a pleasant experience for me. Electronic music I guess hits me in place that music made by hand doesn't but the thing is with a lot of it, it feels quite sterileand because I'm coming from a place of a live musician I kinda focus onthe moment with what I'm doing, there might be mistakes but that's what being a musician is all about. There's got to be a moment when you're doing it and getting in that zone is important to achieve that moment otherwise the audience doesn't feel as much either.

Paul: You've integrated as you say hand crafted music into you live set along with your programmed material how/has that made a difference to your recorded material?

Moranis: I'm working on an Album at the moment and I redoing my EP cause I'm not really happy with it cause like I was saying before it didn't have the feeling that I want my music to have. So I'm taking the old stuff out and redoing it as wellas creating new material for the album. It's been interesting taking the experiences I've had live and applying it to the album. The more Ido it the more I feel it's going to end up being mainly live instruments. Though like I said I'm still finding my feet I'm still experimenting.

Cam: Are you looking to catch that experimental vibe with your Album?

Moranis: No No not at all I still want the album to be very accessible, I mean experimental in that everything I do I have no idea that its going to happen till it happens. I want the final product to be a pop album essentially, because I listen to and play so much music I want to getto a place where Moranis has a sound and a vibe that are identifiable as being that's the Moranis sound. Though I still like being able tofit any genre into that sound and being able to make it feel like you're listening to a single piece rather than a compilation.

WR: We are looking forward to the upcoming projects from Moranis. You can catch a full version of this interview on the upcoming Rogue Round Up. Mean while check out some music from Moranis.