Transcript
KEMP MUHL
Well, it's, it's an incredibly unofficial background. And my mother was, a concert pianist. And when I was in the womb, she played a lot of furious concertos. And then I just grew up around this old piano. It was so out of tune, but I didn't know the difference. So, I would just, you know, sort of compose little melodies. You have to stick with it. We moved up to New York and, I met Sean, my boyfriend. And he gave me the most amazing, illustrious musical education. I hadn't heard any hip-hop, I hadn't heard any, any music, really, other than very like, banal white folk music. And so, when I met Sean, he exposed me to, like, everything. He basically gave me the entire history of music. It blew my mind, and I immediately came back and started composing.
This is our music studio and this is the guitar section. There are some from the '50s. And, and someone sent him this from Kiss.
This is my band with Sean, the GOASTT. It's an acronym for a play that I wrote when I was, like, eight called The Ghost Of A Saber-Toothed Tiger. We found it in my apartment and he thought it was funny. And here is one song, it's called Rainbows In Gasoline.
The kind of music that I'm starting to do now is progressive, like, jazz, pop, folk rock, Chinese traditional music, no. (LAUGH)
Sean and I just create this whole new place of complete weirdness, you know, and nerdy music. You know, we're really into word play and puns. I like that line. Um, we're so nerdy, we wrote, and it's like this, um, [reading] wearing freudian slips like evening gowns, taking guilt trips from town to town.
Last night, we wrote a song about anthropomorphizing the lifespan of a cigarette. You know, we just have fun. Like, we just will write about anything. I'll just play you a little doodle there. Composing is, I don't know, for me, it's actually a lot about the geometrical formations of my fingers. It's almost very visual for me. And I know, it's, it's a very intimate experience. It's nice.
So, it goes on. Let's go to the drums and I'll try to play you one of the new beats I'm learning. Drums are definitely not my talent. So, I'm just gonna show a few beats that I'm starting to learn.
But that was humiliating. Let's move on. Oh, last but not least, tambourine. We put it in on every song, and the triangle. I'm a professional triangle player. I think it's an exciting time actually 'cause everything is so vanilla and so boring, that it's time for something new.
