Mike Einziger, on "Forced Curvature of Reflective Surfaces"

As if he weren't busy enough touring the world as the guitar-player of the band Incubus and attending college full-time at Harvard University, Mike Einziger somehow finds the time to compose and perform orchestral music.

After a two-month Summer (vacation) tour to support Incubus' greatest hits album "Monuments & Melodies", Mike resumed his studies at Harvard where he had just finished a very intense year of education. Now, in the midst of a new school year, Mike is undertaking yet another ambitious project, composing an experimental music piece for the upcoming "West Coast, Left Coast" Festival performance at LA's famed Walt Disney Concert Hall.

In this candid interview, Mike speaks about the festival and the concept behind his contribution.

Tickets for the performance can be purchased via TicketMaster. For more information, please visit:
laphil.com/press/press-release/index.cfm?id=2460

Credits:
The video was shot on a Nokia N95 8GB and edited on a MacBook Pro in iMovie. Typography is Flama Light by Mário Feliciano. Shot & edited by Joseph Bielski, Nov. 2009.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Incubus
• Music
• LA Philharmonic
• Disney Hall
• Kronos Quartet
• Terry Riley
• Matmos
• Los Angeles
• LA
• West Coast

[Jcale101]

@davematthewsband101 Are you Fucking kidding me?

[silentandlisten]

This guy is absolutely remarkable.

[GABYINCUBUSMcCARTNEY]

Fantastic musician, talented, polite and simply a brilliant man. Thanks Mike for sharing yor mind with us

[krakljak]

@davematthewsband101 Metallica isn't bad, but Incubus is better. And Metallica is more mainstream than Incubus.

[TheDigitalamon]

@JMorr1029 I Totally agree.

[likethecheeze321]

@davematthewsband101 OBVIOUSLY it's you who doesn't know what your talking about. There's A LOT to musicology. Oy. *facepalm*

To Mike: congrats on being an successful, intelligent and educated, as well as experimental and creative, musician. We, your fellow music intellectuals, appreciate and admire everything you are doing both with the band and outside of it. Thanks for making incredible music! : )

[plou0018]

What a humble motherfucker. Such a good guy.

[kakaka15]

A gour called what? that toured with bjork. I can't understand the name. Can someone enlighten me please?

[pieman4545]

@davematthewsband101 your actually saying that incubus is more mainstream than metallica?

[Gravitymann]

Dork

[JMorr1029]

@davematthewsband101 he is actually very smart when it comes to music theory, as opposed to metallica knowing absolutely nothing on the study. i am an ex huge metallica fan. i still love them, but they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about when it comes to musical composition.