ManicWorld Magazine

– How do you start composing a new piece? What is your planning process like?

The Piano is my main instrument and it represents the place in which everything makes sense to me, music composition and life’s ordinary. Usually I play an idea on piano or while I practice something around that, it helps me to grab that idea. Being able to repeat it, record it, singing over a chord progression that I like and I may find suitable depending on what I’m writing or what I want to keep in mind. The next steps usually consist in finding a structure for the piece and its instrumentation, transferring that idea in Cubase. That’s  where my idea can start to bloom and finding its full shape.

– Did ‘Her Eyes On Me’ follow the same flow or was it divergent from the norm?

For this new single Her Eyes On Me, it all started on piano during a late afternoon in which I was practising and recording myself, playing a chords progression, I changed a bit the voicings around that chords progression I was testing out, I decided to keep those shapes as much the flow it was coming out of it. It felt so good that in the following days after that afternoon, I recorded myself again and again. That’s when I made the Take, which is the one we actually hear on the single. It feels different from the norm because I was diving deeper in that idea I made a few days earlier and hearing your piano from the living room turning into your main character for one of your compositions feels so good after all. 

– The longer you listen, the more it sounds like you’re being lured in by a siren, what did you want to communicate when you wrote this piece? Do you think you did it justice?

The piece surely has a hypnotic vibration thanks to the chords I’m playing on piano. Writing this piece, I wanted the listener to feel like within a circle, hypothesized by a siren? Why not, ahah but like Ulysses, I’m sure the listener will be able to find his way home, thanks to the piece’s flow and the harmonies ‘s resolutions.