![]() It’s out in the world of fucking IMDB one-to-10s, it’s out there in the database of millions of people shooting off opinions at each other that they believe they’re formulating on their own. I don’t know, people coming at you from that angle is kinda sickening, you know?Īs soon as you create something and put it out there it’s no longer under your control. As soon as you release records, some person hearing it will think that this record is a product for them to enjoy, whereas that’s not my intent making it whatsoever, it’s for me while I’m creating it. It’s an interesting position to have as an artist. The idea of it being heard by people who want to hear it fucks with my head, so… you know, easier to choose to keep it to myself. Um… I don’t know, I love making music it’s kinda hard for me to put it out, to be honest. What made you feel like that? You seem to have always been at odds with it. I think 2007 was the point when I became really at odds with releasing music. It’s an interesting way to summarise a career. It’s followed by a statement that you were very prolific until 2007. I thought it was funny that your Wikipedia places the odd time signatures right at the top. Imagine Wikipedia gets everything wrong? You realize one day, “oh shit, everything I read on Wikipedia is actually just totally false.” The first thing it says is that you are known for making electronic music often in odd time signatures. What does it say on there? Someone once edited it to just say Venetian Snares is in fact a lady or something, and that was all that was on it and I thought it was amazing. Your Wikipedia page is quite interesting. I guess straight to the source, that’s the best source of information. ![]() Not really magazines or other media sources like they have in the past. When I have to promote a record or something, I’m on it a bunch because that’s where people are looking these days, right at you. ![]() ![]() As an independent artist I’m in a position where I also have to engage with social media and all that shit, so yeah, I’m in there. I mean, sort of… yeah, I use the internet. How connected are you to the world through the internet? I’m glad you came into this with the idea of me not being bored, that sounds fun.Ĭonsidering we’re talking over Skype, perhaps the best place to start is with the internet. I was trying to think of an angle that could be less boring than the usual. I was preparing the interview and I guess… well, you haven’t given many interviews. What do you ask the artist who seems to want nothing but to be left alone? As it turns out, you just throw the questions out the window and try to have a good old fashioned conversation. When Funk has given interviews in the past they’ve toed the line, and I quickly realised there wasn’t much to ask that hadn’t already been covered. So when the label recently got in touch to say he was available for interviews to promote his forthcoming record, Your Face, I said yes, largely out of curiosity. When I put together an oral history of Planet Mu earlier this year, Funk, one of the label’s key artists, was unavailable – or maybe simply unwilling – to speak. He makes music because he has to the fact that other people get to hear it is a byproduct of his need to earn money. With a career spanning nearly half his life, the reclusive 40-year-old has seen it all and been left largely unimpressed. But chances are he thinks you’re a fool for bothering. He leaves unpacking any intent behind the sounds to those who deem such things worthy of their time. Aaron Funk, the Winnipeg-based artist behind the moniker, simply expresses himself through music. Venetian Snares isn’t a breakcore artist.
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