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From: agf <agf@poemproducer.com> Date: Sa Nov 8, 2003 16:35:11 Europe/Berlin To: perkele@ilimit.es Subject: Fwd: Interview hey hey >>>Thanks so much for everything and congratulations for your new album thanks ;) >>>>What does Westernization Completed reffers to? The integration of eastern germany to the west politics, the fact that you are mainly using english as a language, or maybe it is something more personal? it s all that what you suggesting its one hint or explanation for the choice of english language sofar i worked mainly in german or bilingual but because of my travels and my closest friends beeing finnish. ukrain. english. american. canadian i talk . think and work in english so naturally i also write in english so .. it was one one site a natural move but also i wanted that an international audience understands me with this record thats why i added the track contemporary westernized to explain where i come from and what my roots are maybe like people in hiphop do. to fix the point where they view the world from personal for me its also somehow a chapter which ends i used to be and think and grow up very political and with communist background ... after the wall came down i kind of had to stop that rethink. edit my brain and my education be open for the world to be able to survive and also understand the system which was a so announced enemy during the first 15 years of my life after now 13 years beeing kind of unpolitical and opinionless which i found also very heallthy i feel i could come back and do political or at least critical art.... also i feel its a very global topic : to be or not westernized and refers to 80 % of this world. i hope that explains >>>Theres a certain nostalgia in some of the people that lived in eastern germany and now are part of the western culture. Youve experienced both worlds, do you think things are better now? What do you miss least, what do you miss most from that system. i dont know really if i miss it. but at least its missing: homeland compared to other people. i actually dont mind to feel just human and not german necessarily .. .. its difficult. when your whole country kind of disappears so fast and all the related things. landscapes. people. attitude. feelings its somehow sad. but its also an update. which can be definitly inspiring. well i am personal very happy. that i could witness 2 different societies the real socialism/ wanne be communism and the real capitalism of course i am an optimist and learning from both societies or principles there are in both good things and bad things but i am not very nostalgic. with this i am sad that so many people are kind of still in shock or distortion and helplessness ... much depression in east germany and also i think unability of dealing with the system no eductaion and lots of really annoying frustration otherwise east germany is totally redesigned everything is new/ streets/ renovation so it kind of pays back to the people in a different way.. the have to fill it with ideas now >>>After that experience, do you think thats necessary to be an artist with a political agenda or touching political issues or maybe you just need to do the contrary, forget politics and concern only for music/art. Where do you stand and why? What do you think of the people that do the contrary? i havent been political for many years. neither in my work nor private engagment i think its ok. i think this world is really full of things . everybody has to decide himself what he cares about. and what he fights for or not and it least its ones own life... to decide where to put energy on this is something i learned in this new global set up and i am ok with that i dont like people hurting other people for egoistic or commercial interest. thats the thing i despise. even i think its a complicated aspect of life in general. but i believe in alternatives... i just started... doing political work again... that was my first track: http://www.antiopic.com/allegorical/july2003.html i again try to find a field where i feel responsible. beside my ego i wanne do political german hiphop. i do a female laptop group http://www.lappetites.poemproducer.com/ which is by nature very political. 4 woman from different background and different generations. >>>I was in eastern germany a year ago just for a short vacation and ocasionally talked with some artists from east berlin. They told me that eastern germany is dealing with a really high unemployment rate and lots of infraestructural problems. After more than ten years from the unification media and politicians pretend that the westernisation process is already completed, but when you talk to some people it looks like there are still lots of problems to solve. We recently saw this german movie which treated in a funny way the changes from the eastern system to the capitalist system. i love this movie good bye lenin very cool ! >>>The Westernization process is about to reach absolutely broken systems such as the eastern countries which are about to enter the European Community. How far do you think the Westernization process can go? full on global. most probably even outer space !mac donalds and H&M all over the planet but also art and internet. communictaion and understanding all over i hope wireless internet for free for everybody. would be a good step. >>>It is also quite ironic the fact that while western system is showing its weakness more and more (i think that in germany they want to cut most of the social wellfare you have while in sweden they are having some problems maintaining their system also) theres still lots of people and countries which really want to be a part of it. We ourselves are in a scary process of americanisation, with the whole idea of the euro and the european community. >>>The US is an issue by itself. I guess youve been there and met lots of people from there (Sue and Josh, ie). What do you think about what you saw? complex. i have some really amazing friends there. and also there are many things i really disrespect. i like NY san fransisco and detroit... also chicago all this places i vistited.. but always surrounded by nice people i never took a car through the countryside i guess i would quite freak out :) i feel the same like you. i am more or less bored or offended and i think even some americans are also of the american culture or politics... trying to dominate the planet just lately i got really shocked reading in financial times that america is NOT allowing (???hallo???) europe to make an independent satelite system around the world. while they have there own one since ages and control the world and markets with it its quite.... dictatorship and reminds me of my compared to that harmless home country >>>What do you mean by Language is the most. The most what? exciting form.... learning how to mean i am a communiction freak deeply believe in the healing of communictaion >>>>Through your previous works as laub the importance of the voice as another instrument kept growing, while in both of your musork releases it is one of the main elements. How do you explain that evolution? Is there any event or personal experience that made you realise that was the path you wanted to follow? well its my strongest instrument. i can play most... and as i am a sound artist working with samples i came across to create sounds with that voice. more and more. its just like a piano... >>>Can you explain whats your definition of Poet producer? Does the producer part reffers to music or maybe to the process? it refers to music. but also to the technic i started to use. to write lyrics or poems or songs even. i collect and sample nice words and expressions from all over the internet. email. books. and when i design a topic or song content .... i arbitrary use this collection to make an audio music base... and then i compose that includes a high possibilty of assoziation, and intuition which is not controlled by brain i like it ! >>>Whats the role of the music in your poems? Is it as important as the voice treatment or just complementary. Why? music is same important. samme narritive element. and i hope my voice is music also >>>Somehow the mixture of abstract electronics or sounds with poetry makes absolute sense, given the fact that nowadays art scene are in constant collition (audio+visual, net artÉ). However the bedroom producers generation doesnt look like its been really interested in poetry. Where does your interest come from? early east german days. poetry. literature. strong connection to reading... escaping reality and learning how to mean >>>Do you feel a part of that bedroom producer generation? dont care i have a studio How old are you, btw? 34 >>>At least, some of your closest friends are, arent they? i dont have many friends which are musicians. You took benefit as most of nowadays musicians of the so-called democratisation of the electronic media, didnt you? i like the independance as an artist. to find the most original way to work as soon there where computer like commodore 64 and atarie and samplers avaiolable i wanted to have them didnt want to spent my time with boys in stinky rehearsing rooms >>>When did you first got interested in producing your music? always actually. i was more or less always annouyed by people interfere in my sonic ideas >>>Was it as a new via to explore your voice and your writings or were you focused in music first? sorry dont understand >>>Do you make an issue of the fact that you are woman producer, also? The lack of woman in the scene is still too obvious. How do you explain that? it will change. >>>How do you fit in the poetry scene and the musical scene? I guess its hard to fit in both? Which is harder? >>>I dont have your record yet physically talking, so i havent seen the book. What was the idea behind it? What can i find in it? >>>Can you comment your collaborations with Delay and Craig Armstrong? >>>Are you still in touch with your partner in Laub? yes we gonna do a new record 2005 >>>How did you meet Vladislav, btw. at popkomm in cologne 2000. >>>I dont want to get too personal, but how is it working with your couple? hell and the heaven >>>Fav food sushi >>>Fav drink water and grapefruitsaft schorle >>>Fav book wuwei from theo fisher >>>Fav writer hip hop artists all over the world >>>Fav movie ghostdog. the pillowbook. undo >>>Fav actor >>>Fav actress >>>Fav hobbie outside music and poetry . humans. cooking. movies. clothes. art art art. nature philosphy >>>future plans so many music. music. music. hong kong. seoul. lappetites. cyber lady macbeth love. producer work. art. travelling. find a home. need to run now agf |