Today, we sat down with Comprehending to talk inspiration to write music, advice for musicians and much more! Be sure to check out the music of Comprehending on Spotify below after the interview!
Interview:
What is your inspiration to write your music? Is it your
surroundings?
The inspiration for Comprehending is me wanting to understand certain aspects of music better. Like what makes a good song actually good and how weird can you make a song/riff before it gets ruined. I sometimes use this as a challenge for myself when creating. I also get inspiration from hearing other musicians and bands, but also from nature. If I’m having a writer’s block it often helps to go out in nature to clear my mind. There’s always something new to experience out there.
What type of music did you listen to growing up?
When I was little, I listened mostly to The Beatles and Iron Maiden, the first live show I ever attended was actually Iron Maiden in Stockholm when I was 8 years old, but as I became a teenager I started to lean more towards post-hardcore and metalcore. It’s not until just a few years prior to starting Comprehending that I started to discover math-rock and post-rock, which is the genres I mostly stick to for that project.
Is there someone you looked up as a hero?
Not as a hero per se. I think with social media these days people realise more that artists are just regular people and not some kind of unreachable entity more than back in the day when you only saw them in magazines and at live shows. There are a lot of people I look up to as really great musicians though, a couple of them being Rou Reynolds of Enter Shikari and Tim Collis of TTNG.
If you weren’t a musician, would you be doing today?
Well, for my day job I work as an arborist, so I manage trees in urban locations. I really enjoy that and think that I would still do it even if I wasn’t a musician. I knew from an early age that I wanted to work with both nature and music, and that’s what I’m currently doing.
What advice do you have for our fans out there that want to create
music?
There’s nothing more to it than to start doing it! If you want to play an instrument or take up singing it all comes down to practice. Even if it doesn’t sound that good in the beginning you just have to keep at it and you will improve. It can be hard to find the motivation to keep going when things doesn’t work out the way you want it to, but just remember that everyone has to start somewhere and that even your favourite artists started from nothing.
Music:
