Zilmrah /0\ - Alrealon Interview April 2010 (New Podcast Episode online soon @ Alrealon.co.uk)

Zilmrah /0\
http://www.myspace.com/zilmrah

Zilmrah Is a philosophy or musical vision. It encompasses the need to explore as well as to build onto non-existing audio backdrops. It is not bound by the weight of preconceived genres to guide its motives. There is only room for growth with the removal of expectation. Musical Instruments and sound sculptures are designed for the project for perpetual audio motion and also for cultural expansion; the likes of which have been constricted by habit and progressive discipline. This particular project can also be seen as a directive in opposition to musical stability. It uses its own textures and structures to expand its own place in the genre cluttered world. There is a Spiritual force present in this sound but it is the inner freedom of audible creativity that unleashes this feeling . Open sound is and will always be the only motive to continue doing this for me. There are no political, religious, social motives or hidden agendas guiding this project. It is simply spiritual, either constructive or destructive depending on what is being expressed at that particular time. People need to discover for themselves and not be told how to create or how to feel. Aside from sound creation the project has featured the contribution of video artists and experimental dancers. In future installments for live events there will be expanded membership to play some of the new musical instruments; some of which are acoustic percussive, electric and electro-acoustic. I am often looking for innovative artists to collaborate with whether they are musicians, video artists, dancers, instrument builders, poets or performance artists, so if this project seems interesting to you and it connects with your sensibilities and agrees with your aesthetics then feel free to contact me.


Alrealon Podcast Series 2, Episode 4 (April 2010):
Non Sequitur Metastasis by Zilmrah /0\ online soon!

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Intro/outro: 'Disrupting The Ghost' (ALRN015) by FluiD
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[splungent9]

Well to answer your question, I simply do not wish to compose solos. What I'm doing is not about the soloist. The point of creating that particular instrument in the first place was for it it to sound completely unique, to free it of expectation and to use it as part my own musical lexicon. I don't expect it to make sense to anyone but me but it is doing exactly what I created it for and more so I certainly do not feel restricted by my use of it. I make my own rules for the sound sculptures.

[DamienOlsen]

interesting interview.

I am kind of surprised about the sound of the 18 string guitar as it is hard to perceive it isolated from the rest of the mix when you play live.

It has a beautiful sound of its own. why don't you compose or improvise solos using just the 18 string guitar?

I mean, i bet you did this already but it will be very cool if you play "arpegios" with your fingers and you loop them and then you play sustained notes on top of the loop with the ebow... just an idea.