5 Q&A With Dungeon Dweller
What is the creative process like?
I do everything myself in my room on my laptop, I have no technical training or anything of the sort so a lot of it is guesswork and creating things on the moment. Due to almost no actual musical knowledge I am either bending and distorting pre-made loops to sound the way I want or playing on a mini keyboard plugged into my laptop.
Was there any challenge that you encountered while making "I've Been Meaning to Tell You?"
Yes, the whole reason for the song's existence is that I wasn't able to put a confession into words. I didn't know how else to say some things I had been needing to get off my chest and so I had to make sure everything sounded exactly the way I wanted to accurately express the atmosphere around it. Again, not having any technical ability really made that difficult as I had to rely heavily on distorting vocals or manipulating loops in order to really achieve what I wanted. It was hard to tell which sounds communicated which things to myself and what they might communicate to an audience.
What impact do you hope this song will have on your audience?
I don't have an audience, but I hope that people who hear it can hear what I'm trying to say or can fill in their own experiences into the music. With absolutely no words anyone can sort of project anything they want into the music and I really hope it ignites that for them.
What inspired you to pursue a career in music?
The same thing that inspired the song, lack of being able to write it out. My whole life, I've been making movies to express how I feel but recently they've been failing on certain fronts so I've tried to open up this other medium to say the things that I can't with videos. I know it sounds all sappy and shit but that's just what it is. It's been fun to try and figure out what works and what doesn't. I'm excited to see what happens with the next releases I have coming down the pipeline, they're all very different from each other, I'm excited to find a "tone."
Where do you find inspiration for your songs or musical ideas?
It really is just life experiences or monologues that I have to turn into a song. This specific one is an apology and a confession that I truly didn't know how else to say. My other two released songs are similar in that I just needed to tell someone, anyone, something but couldn't use words. I'm hoping that people hear that in the music.
