Interview on Passenger Side
Thank you Passenger Side for the really nice interview. I had a great time talking with Jodie about what I am up too and many thanks for relating what I said better then I could. I also haven’t posted the whole interview so click below to read more. Send them some likes and comments.
Passenger Side
Interview with Hunz
Brisbane artist Hans Van Vliet, aka Hunz, puts forward an interesting proposition with his work. His music is both familiar and yet unusual, combining the art of tracking (at its core, converting numbers into music using computer software) and ethereal, melancholic pop vocals to make something accessible and organic out of so much digital noise. Like his digital production brothers (and sisters?!) in the chiptunes world, Hans is working towards innovation, and not just within the model of music distribution.
Hunz has been around for nearly ten years in some form, always revolving around the tracker/demo music scene and digital music production. In late 2009, he released his LP Thoughts That Move for free. You can download it here, if you like. He doesn’t have the luxury of a multi-million dollar back catalogue to prop him up like Radiohead, but he says it’s working. “It took a month to put the album together [as part of the RPM Challenge] and by the end of it I thought, I put a lot of love into it but not a lot of time, so I thought I’d release it for free and see how it went.” Despite being released almost a year ago, it still has around 70 downloads per week. “Every week a new blog picks it up and tells people about it.”
Hunz represents the emerging model for independent music production. “It’s the idea that the music itself is no longer the product,” he explains. People come to his shows . . .
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Jodi Biddle
