When talking about Tycho, the adjectives that click are dreamy, ambient and complex. And precisely so. His music is the next best thing to experiencing a daydream but much more sonic and audible. IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) would be the genre where such music would genuinely fit but there is something nostalgic, tranquil and melodic about the piece of art, that it escapes those genre boundaries and explores uncharted waters. We had a chance to talk to Scott to discuss his upcoming album, experimenting while making music, his inspirations an much more.
TBB: This is your first time in India for Johnnie Walker The Journey? How does it feel to be here?
Scott Hansen: We’re all really excited to be seeing India for the first time and playing at Johnnie Walker The Journey as well. It’s a big honor.
TBB: Talking about the structure of your music, can you describe your mentality when you feel the most comfortable making music, when you’re really in your own element?
Scott Hansen: I tend to work late, when all the noise and outside stimulus dies down and I can internalize my thoughts. I’m not really good at multi-tasking when it comes to music so I can’t start and stop, or spend an hour here and there. I need to have large spans of time completely open and devoted to music in order to get into the process.
TBB: Do you like to experiment while making music?
Scott Hansen: Definitely. I feel like I spent a lot of my career just getting my skills to a point where I was comfortable with the process. Now I feel I’m more able to step outside the things I normally do and experiment a little more with sounds and emotional spaces.
TBB: Do you usually associate a particular place or memory when you sit down to produce a record?
Scott Hansen: I think there’s always been a generally nostalgic component to my music but I’m never really drawing from anything too specific, just a broad space. But I think more and more the music has been becoming more current, a reflection of my current state, in the moment.
TBB: Who is an artist in any media that you would want to work with?
Scott Hansen: I’ve always wanted to work with Yukimi Nagano.
TBB: How was it like performing at Burning Man this year?
Scott Hansen: It was a really special experience, very surreal.
TBB: Do you have a favorite album cover, from your designer’s eye viewpoint?
Scott Hansen: There are so many. I really like the Roger Dean Yes covers as well as Dan McPharlin‘s work for Prefuse 73.
TBB: You have an upcoming album in 2016, how different is it going to be from Dive & Awake?
Scott Hansen: It’s hard to say right now but it’s definitely flowing in its own direction. I think it will be an evolution in a lot of ways, some subtle, some not so subtle.
TBB: To be continuously driven to create beautiful art and music you must need a constant source of inspiration, who or what is your stimulus?
Scott Hansen: I can’t really say, it’s just something I’ve always felt a need to do. Like a feeling you have inside that needs to get out.
TBB: What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learnt from being an artist and musician?
Scott Hansen: That anything can be accomplished with enough time and energy.
Tycho will be performing at Johnnie Walker The Journey, where he will be joined by multiple Grammy and Oscar winning electronic trailblazer Giorgio Moroder, the world’s greatest instrumental rock band Explosions in the Sky, mind bending, anti-gravity renowned theatre artist Leo and an exclusive peak into a stellar documentary film on Marlon Brando: Listen to me Marlon by Stevan Riley. To find out more be present on 12th December at Mehboob Studios in Mumbai.
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