Constant hunger or nausea modern orchestras; December 9
Mimi Luce was a teenage headache. In his native Connecticut, he stumbled on holidays on most weekends; He didn't make music but at least he was a fan. In the year It was the early 2000s and he was heavily involved in the jam band and classic rock band scene. She read every book about the counterculture of the 1960s and began sewing her own clothes on a sewing machine, all with thread and plaster embroidery.
"I was a hippie," says Luz, now 38, sitting next to the trucks he used to collect bass and drum samples. "I really tried to create my own culture."
Luce was dressed in a light green sweater and black dress as she returned home from her job as the events manager at the Nasher Museum, and the stark contrast between her dapper, casual demeanor and her sultry, powerful music seemed a stark contrast. .
But many red begonias have fallen between The Dead and DAF, a seminal German new wave band (in black) whose first band Cochonne Moon took the influence from post-punk to industrial. : Techno blooms quickly after his personal project Perpetual, a late development.
At the end of high school, Luz discovered punk at an art camp in Boston, where she was shunned by the New York kids who loved the little risks. It was the musical "Big Bang" that found its way to McGill University, where he majored in English and art history with the intention of becoming an art writer. He immersed himself in the vibrant Montreal scene as culture editor of the prestigious student newspaper, McGill Daily . He frequented DIY venues and warehouse shows, and performed in genres such as Electroclash without the fuss and swagger.
Still, she says, making music "seems like something good people do, and I don't feel good about it." “I was a writer, a cultural commentator. I saw myself more as a spectator.
After college, she spent several years in New York, working at an art auction house and writing for magazines such as Art in America and Frieze . She then took a year off to apply to graduate school while living with her French grandfather in Paris and working in a mattress store. In the year In 2011, he enrolled at Duke to pursue a PhD in Art History. It focuses on the rejection of modernism by French art historians and journalists in the early 20th century, a key thesis that emphasizes the interaction of art, culture, and life experience as the current music.
But he became a columnist of columnists and music took a back seat.
In the year The years between 2015, when Luce did her dissertation, and 2019, when she defended it, were a blur. He went to Paris, then Durham, then Paris, then Durham, then Amsterdam, then Paris, then Durham.
Something woke up somewhere in Paris.
"I think that's where I started living again, going to clubs and meeting musicians and artists," she says.
Before leaving Durham, she took a women's rock bass course that she says is "awesome" and feels inspired by all the women she knows who form bands like Fitness Womx and Silent Lunch. He auditioned to play in a post-punk band in Paris, used his experience to learn the songs by heart, and was devastated when he didn't get in.
"But that's how I learned to play music," he says. "I told him I know how to play now. I'm not good enough to be in this tour group, but I can start my own band."
In the year In 2017, Luz and Patricia Bass, drummer of the year, began writing demos. Luz sang in French and found an interest in poetry about discovering the language informally. Originally called ODV, Duchamp Payne's hard to explain version of the band's last name, Coco, puts a feminine spin on the dreaded word.
"For example, I can't tell my French family the name of the team because it's too offensive," Luce says with a playful laugh.
Joining Durham were Mariel Dutoit on guitar and Carla Hang on keyboards; Hannah Spector (who played on Silent Lunch) and Jeff Schilling played drums back to back; Later, Dave Rodriguez played bass and synthesizers. Blended with New York and Lizzie Mercier Desclox, Cocoon's music can be traced back to the lost 1982 Rough Trade demo.
They dropped spoons like The Slits and airbrushed like Joy Division. "But it was never pastiche," says Luce. "It always came from a real admiration for the contemporary bands I listened to and the female-led post-punk bands I read in the old top rock 'n' roll reviews ."
Cocoon played a few shows, but it was a songwriting and recording project that produced Pink Band in 2019 and a 12-inch Urgent in 2021. At the same time, Lucy thought more and more about people and places. . .
"To me, electronic music and the spaces it creates are a continuation of the modernist paradigm of melting art into life," he says. "You're not a passive spectator, and that was the spirit of Dada, Futurism and Surrealism. They make reality even stranger, but the audience goes along with it.
He bought some equipment (an effects pedal, a Roland Groovebox follower) from Duke's musician friend Yair Rubinstein, who gave his industry idols Esplandor Geometrico, Chris & Kosi, DAF a high course.
He learned drums, layered bass and synths. After Manhole Soundtrack Collage, when the outbreak began, he began to persevere and Magpie Empire began to collect various samples: wine glasses, ASMR and horror movies, Seneca and The Real Housewives.
The band's first tape, Social Disease , was more synth-pop, but later releases were loaded with industrial techno. Because it looks scary. Luce explained. "I like the intensity. I want it to be scary and dance-like.
That strength is evident in the Muse A0 powerful bass machines, named after an effects pedal created in connection with Luz's daily work and released in October on the famously experimental North Carolina label. North, fresh releases. It's a permanent sound that's been converted into a box set for touring purposes, as seen on a short European tour last summer with Luke and Ryan Martin hosting hot releases and playing a mystery boyfriend.
According to Moon, the generosity of the likes of Rubinstein, Martin, and the likes of the Chapel Hill Nightlight Club helped create a sense of musical freedom.
"It's like girls rock," she says. "It is very important to create institutional structures to educate people."
"Hunger or Nausea," a heart-pounding techno deluge, is out online December 9 on Modern Cassettes. A record followed a week later, the first on the Brooklyn label.
There's also a constant on Noise Volume II, a new set by the British industrial coast, invented by women . Luc Stevie Nicks and Dr. Mabus movies.
Performing at FRUIT on December 9 and 17 as part of the Nights of Will and Sans Nome respectively. He does not use a laptop; The advantages are pure hardware, though it's a steeper learning curve than the classic Ideology.
As much as Luce's music is steeped in cultural context, there is something exciting and alive about it, something open to exploration, something that catches her eye as she walks around. It comes from the center of the musical creation, not from the side.
"I don't see myself as a character," she says. "I think of myself as a technician. But in this independent role, in this academic enclave, there is something more, vague but perfect.
"Music has always touched me deeply," Luce says. But when I finally started doing it myself, there was a sense of unity I had never felt before. I created a stronger inner world and was able to access my dark side through it.
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