HAPPYMOVIE
CreativeMornings/Montréal is
excited to introduce you to HAPPYMOVIE.
This
post-guitar pop-core rave-wave group will open for MissMe and CreativeMornings/Montréal
on July 1st at 7:30am. Don’t miss their unique sound.
Curious to find out a bit more about them, we asked HAPPYMOVIE a few questions.
How do you create your music?
The process is always evolving, especially since we’re such a new band. The majority of our compositions come from playing together and experimenting with our machines. Sometimes we’ll set up some parameters or constraints to see what we can do with a set of limits in place. There is a lot of messing around with running equipment into other equipment, chaining signal in strange ways, and also utilizing the way sound interacts with our concrete bunker of a studio space as a kind of instrument as well. We sample and re-sample each other and build compositions over time from our raw material.
When something isn’t working in your creative process, what do you do? What’s your process?
Our tracks sometimes go through several full iterations before we settle on one, so it’s often an interesting dance between construction and deconstruction. Some tracks have been born from the cannibalization of older tracks that just weren’t quite working yet. In general, I think keeping an open mind and not getting too attached to anything is one of the creative principles that helps us move forward and not get too bogged down in the details.
How do change the way you create and adapt your music to the community you are evolving in? How do you think this will change as you transition to Berlin and Copenhagen?
We actually don’t really consider many outside influences when we’re making music. We are pretty unconcerned with “fitting in” to a scene or tailoring our music to an audience. I think we both have a pretty solid idea of the aesthetic we are going for and that’s our main guiding light. It’s hard to say how things will change once we’re established in Europe, but we’re already working on new material. So apart from the challenges of living in new places, and not being in the same city all the time, I think our creative collaboration is already on its own path.
After a good/long night, what’s your favourtie place to get poutine/junk food/snack in MTL
We’ve been known to end up at Nouveau Palais, Chez Claudette, La Banquise…
What your favourite song to sing in the shower?
FITS OF ZEN VOL. 2 was released on June 17th!
Spotify - iTunes - Google Play - Art Not Love
Interview with Mikael Tobias by Sophia Kapchinsky
Photo courtesy HAPPYMOVIE
