1989 - born1. When did you start making music and how has your work developed\changed\evolved through the years?
It isn’t clear when music started for me. I assume it begins when listening is influenced by what is not being listened to, that is, the sounds become something, like a concept or an object. Perhaps then, music making is the preparation of this influence on what I am about to hear. An anticipation of what the sounds will maybe become.
These days I am more interested what music is unable to influence, or the disruption of that influence.
2. Do you have any clue why you’re not shamefully famous yet? It seems you’ve been around for a while and the quality of your work is undisputedly excellent so I really can’t see the reason why you still haven’t got the recognition you deserve. Or perhaps you have. What do you think about it? (Sorry if I sound like a brown-nose, it’s just the way I see it.)
I imagine that it is probably easier to concentrate and explore things when there are no expectations or evaluations placed upon you. It seems that if famous people manage to do interesting things it is in spite of their fame.
3. How would you define your music? Or, if you don’t want to define it at all, how would you un-define it?
It is sometimes the by-product of my activity, at other times a structure or discipline within it.
4. Suppose I had never listened to your music. Which albums\tracks should I start with?
Don’t listen to my music. Find some sound and go make up the music for yourself.
5. What were your musical influences when you first started making music and what are your musical influences now? (if there are any)
Probably, I am influenced most by the people I disagree with.
6. Could you give us some links related to the vitamin b12? Also, I would be pleased if you could give us the links to any other website of yours or of any other member of the group (if there are any)
http://www.myspace.com/thevitaminb12
http://www.last.fm/music/the+vitamin+b12
http://www.last.fm/music/the+vitamin+b+twelve
http://www.last.fm/group/the%20vitamin%20b12
http://www.last.fm/tag/the%20vitamin%20b12
http://uk.youtube.com/user/thevitaminb12
http://www.fusetronsound.com/label.php?whomart=VITAMINB12
http://www.alasdairwillis.com
http://www.karinmori.co.uk
7. What do you like most about your work?
I like it mostly when I can’t remember having made it.
8. What is your concept of Art?
I do not consider art to be a concept, though concepts can be used for the purpose of art. I figure that art lies outside the realms of concept, so concepts can only aid as a discipline towards its investigations.
I find that to define art as an object or a concept only serves to obscure it.
9. So, since you don't want to give a concept of Art, what is Art and what is not Art to you?
Perhaps it would be easier to say that art resides in the disparity between what I consider to be my reality and my engagement with that reality through my sensory system.
10. Would you tell us a little history of the Enka musical genre in your own words?
Oh gosh, this sounds suspiciously like some kind of exam question. To be exceedingly brief, I think the name ‘enka’ initially appeared a hundred or so years ago in Japan with song sheets distributed with dissident political intent. Somehow these tunes evolved into the nostalgia drenched karaoke melodies that, particularly post second world war, seemed uncannily able to absorb an array of western affectations without ever losing their powerful Japanese identity. Enka is sometimes referred to as the Japanese blues because it uses a similar scale. I particularly like the slow controlled warble that has a particular name that I can’t remember at the moment.
11. Write anything you want here (pretentious quotes, smart short sentences defining the meaning of life, examples of pure silliness – which I always enjoy particularly – and\or anything else)
Do you ask everyone the same questions?
12. This is the last question. Do you really think that it was a good idea to collaborate with Stalemar? Personally, I find them rather bad.
I am cautiously pleased with the experience.
So that was it! And now go listen to the vitamin b12 or the vitamin b twelve! You know you just have to!
It isn’t clear when music started for me. I assume it begins when listening is influenced by what is not being listened to, that is, the sounds become something, like a concept or an object. Perhaps then, music making is the preparation of this influence on what I am about to hear. An anticipation of what the sounds will maybe become.
These days I am more interested what music is unable to influence, or the disruption of that influence.
2. Do you have any clue why you’re not shamefully famous yet? It seems you’ve been around for a while and the quality of your work is undisputedly excellent so I really can’t see the reason why you still haven’t got the recognition you deserve. Or perhaps you have. What do you think about it? (Sorry if I sound like a brown-nose, it’s just the way I see it.)
I imagine that it is probably easier to concentrate and explore things when there are no expectations or evaluations placed upon you. It seems that if famous people manage to do interesting things it is in spite of their fame.
3. How would you define your music? Or, if you don’t want to define it at all, how would you un-define it?
It is sometimes the by-product of my activity, at other times a structure or discipline within it.
4. Suppose I had never listened to your music. Which albums\tracks should I start with?
Don’t listen to my music. Find some sound and go make up the music for yourself.
5. What were your musical influences when you first started making music and what are your musical influences now? (if there are any)
Probably, I am influenced most by the people I disagree with.
6. Could you give us some links related to the vitamin b12? Also, I would be pleased if you could give us the links to any other website of yours or of any other member of the group (if there are any)
http://www.myspace.com/thevitaminb12
http://www.last.fm/music/the+vitamin+b12
http://www.last.fm/music/the+vitamin+b+twelve
http://www.last.fm/group/the%20vitamin%20b12
http://www.last.fm/tag/the%20vitamin%20b12
http://uk.youtube.com/user/thevitaminb12
http://www.fusetronsound.com/label.php?whomart=VITAMINB12
http://www.alasdairwillis.com
http://www.karinmori.co.uk
7. What do you like most about your work?
I like it mostly when I can’t remember having made it.
8. What is your concept of Art?
I do not consider art to be a concept, though concepts can be used for the purpose of art. I figure that art lies outside the realms of concept, so concepts can only aid as a discipline towards its investigations.
I find that to define art as an object or a concept only serves to obscure it.
9. So, since you don't want to give a concept of Art, what is Art and what is not Art to you?
Perhaps it would be easier to say that art resides in the disparity between what I consider to be my reality and my engagement with that reality through my sensory system.
10. Would you tell us a little history of the Enka musical genre in your own words?
Oh gosh, this sounds suspiciously like some kind of exam question. To be exceedingly brief, I think the name ‘enka’ initially appeared a hundred or so years ago in Japan with song sheets distributed with dissident political intent. Somehow these tunes evolved into the nostalgia drenched karaoke melodies that, particularly post second world war, seemed uncannily able to absorb an array of western affectations without ever losing their powerful Japanese identity. Enka is sometimes referred to as the Japanese blues because it uses a similar scale. I particularly like the slow controlled warble that has a particular name that I can’t remember at the moment.
11. Write anything you want here (pretentious quotes, smart short sentences defining the meaning of life, examples of pure silliness – which I always enjoy particularly – and\or anything else)
Do you ask everyone the same questions?
12. This is the last question. Do you really think that it was a good idea to collaborate with Stalemar? Personally, I find them rather bad.
I am cautiously pleased with the experience.
So that was it! And now go listen to the vitamin b12 or the vitamin b twelve! You know you just have to!
