Sylo nozra6/24/2023 ![]() What really motivates me these days is wanting to see and experience the world but also do what I love to do, which is music. Sylo: I guess, wanting people to hear my ideas sharing my feelings sharing my vision. Maybe it would have been different if I’d grown up listening to jazz or rock. So, nowadays, if I try to imagine a setting – the sunset, walking on a beach or being with friends – it really comes naturally. I used to have very vivid imagery in my head when listening to classical music – I’d picture myself in the woods or something – and, I guess, that sort of imagery I always associated with sound. ![]() Sylo: I think I’m definitely lucky to have that, but I think it was being so immersed in the type of music that resonated so well with me as a kid. Writing whenever you want – is that something you’ve trained yourself to be able to do, or a talent that you’re just lucky to have? The music all comes out dependent on the energy that I feel. I think I write better when I’m feeling emotional instead of being in a more neutral, content state whether that’s being super happy or super sad or super depressed. A lot of my friends have writers block, but I don’t tend to get that. I guess the more inspired I feel, the better, but really, I could create anytime – I don’t really have trouble. Is there a particular mood you tend to be in when beginning to write? My ideas can’t really manifest as quick as I want them to because I’m not that skilled on the technical side, so I’m trying to work on that. The only problem I have right now is when it comes to producing. I really love improvising – when I play live shows, I have a pianist who would play a set of chords, usually, and even when we rehearsed, I would just improvise to it sing rhythm and melody try to come up with words. ![]() I’d say I have a pretty good feel for what belongs in a track and what doesn’t. How easily does creativity come for you, and how long do ideas take to develop? So, I want to find that harmony between music and lyricism, because I hear a lot of singers who try to fit too many words in a phrase, and what they have to say is very deep, but it doesn’t necessarily fit with the music, so it’s sometimes hard to listen to. Right now, I’m really liking this artist called Bryson Tiller, from Kentucky – it’s very genuine, the way he writes what he talks about, and it really fits and flows with the music. Sylo: Listening to a lot of good lyricists and, I guess, trying to incorporate their style of writing. What steps are you taking to improve your lyricism? I’ve really been trying to sharpen up my lyricism and my poetic skills, so, my process now is: coming up with chords for a song, singing on top of it, making lyrics and then building the instrumental around that. So, before, my process would be: making an instrumental first and then coming up with a melody and rhythm to vocals and fitting whatever words make sense into those rhythms based on the syllables and stuff. I wouldn’t really consider myself a strong lyricist, but that’s an area that I’m trying to focus on, as of late. Sylo: If you listen to my music, you can definitely tell it’s more musically orientated. But, I don’t think you can necessarily hear the classical scales and melodies. I think classical music really only influences my sense of what harmony and melody go well together what sort of movement and flow goes well with the song. I guess all music sort of comes from classical music, right? One of my favourite artists, Nina Simone, was a huge jazz icon, but her sound came from classical music – she learned classical music as a child. Do you feel that there is any part of your classical background which is present in your music now? I’ve been learning how to produce in the last year and a half, and at the same time working on my EP, Late & Dawn – I conceived that last fall/last winter. I was tired of working with other musicians, and I wanted to come up with my own personal sound and be in control of the whole spectrum instead of having other people’s input. I grew up singing and dancing, and then I joined a rock band when I was thirteen years old – had my whole phase of rock music – and then I got back into R&B and hip-hop after high school. I was listening to hip-hop and R&B at the same time because I had a sister who was ten years older than me, but I really think that classical music opened up my sense of musicality and my sense of feeling music. Sylo: I grew up listening to classical music. The Interview What is your background in music?
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