Summer 2024 interview with wow and flutter, conversations about tape

Last summer Carolyn ZS (Zaldivar Snow), or as you may know her on synthagram, @tangent_universes reached out and asked if she could interview me for her delightful digital zine Wow and Flutter, on IG at @wowandflutterzine, where she interviews musicians who love, collect, record onto and manipulate cassette tapes. Along with being an accomplished musician, she's an OG of the synth community as a contributing writer at Tape Op, as well as small label Mystery Circles, and performs live at DIY shows all over the Eastern Seaboard. She also helps organize Sound Scene Audio Arts Festival in Washington DC, which showcases immersive sonic experiences and public art.

Carolyn was one of the first synth gals I found on IG who also lives a life of the great outdoors. We both live near natural delights like bogs, marshes, rivers and bayous, and can often be found hiking around with our field recorders in hand. I'm always humbled with appreciation when someone who has already lived a few lives in the scene offers to extend their platform to the new kid. She made me feel really special getting press for my very first EP, which is not usually the norm. So here's to wishing Carolyn a Happy Thankyoutine's Day for making the debut of my first hand pressed cassette feel grandiose and important, it certainly was to me and it was a real treat to bring the synth club into the fold with this interview.

This was also the first time I was interviewed as House of Egregious, which felt really cool to be seen and cemented as a musician in interviews instead of only a puppeteer. That's not talking smack about puppets lol really, and yes they will eventually find their way back into my work - esp after seeing Oneohtrix Point Never puppet the mini puppet he had built of himself with Control Voltage, which is definitely something I've been doodling schematics for ever since I picked up KOMA Elektronik's CV motors, light sensors, etc in the summer of 2022 and took my synth building class in fall of 2023.

For now, I'm working on my second EP which I hope to have ready by August to take on tour with me when I hit a few locations in MI and Chicago - dates coming soon. In the meantime, please enjoy this lovely conversation Carolyn and I had about tape.

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