Devin Townsendilta päivitys kymmenen miljoonan dollarin härskiin sinfoniaansa

Ahkerana muusikkona ja huumorimiehenä tunnettu Devin Townsend on ollut sävellyspuuhissa niin oman yhtyeensä kuin lukuisten muidenkin projektiensa kanssa. Miehellä on parhaillaan tekeillä sinfonia nimeltä ”The Moth”, joka miehensä itsensä mukaan kustantaa kymmenen miljoonaa dollaria ja käsittelee ”peniksiä, vaginoita ja kuolemaa”. Devin jakoi Instagram-tilillään myös sinfoniaan liittyvän kuvan, joka on nähtävissä jutun lopussa.

Mieheltä on tullut virallinen tiedote sinfonian etenemisestä. Devin kertoo Allschools Magazinen haastattelussa seuraavasti:

“‘The Moth’ is a project that I think I’m gonna do next. And typically how I work is I go between an album that has some sort of commercial potential like ’Transcendence’ where it sounds like what I do and it’s sonically in line with what’s cool, or whatever. And I do like it. And each time I do a record like that the career goes up. But then I get bored and want to do something else. So ‘The Moth’ is something else that comes next. Which is essentially an opera I guess. You know a symphony, a choir, and a theme that is… I’d say provocative on some level but not intentionally so. It seems like it’s something that I would really enjoy doing creatively. I’m in the formative stages of it at this point.

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“So the parameters of what it is and what it isn’t hasn’t been defined yet but I’m hoping that it’s something we could do like a Broadway style play with a lot of projection mapping. But there’s a good possibility that it could end up being a graphic novel so we’ll see.”

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“It describes humanity. It’s like everything is power. It’s like every bit of power that we’re trying to accumulate comes back to procreation on some level. So all the political, religious cockfighting is literally that. It’s like typically men with issues about their penis all connected ultimately to sex, and power. And ultimately sex is maybe some sort of analogy for connection to something that’s divine. It’s procreation and it’s love. And it’s all these things as well. But I think there’s also an aspect of that that is taken for granted. And a lot of the times, maybe even if it’s not directly related to sex, maybe power is so biologically tied to that.

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“It seems like when I see politicians making such grotesque statements a lot of the times I think to myself… I wonder how much of that is like connection to your parents, or connection to childhood, or maybe you got a small penis. Or maybe it’s like you’ve been so desperately trying to get affection, maybe you didn’t get it from your parents and it becomes sort of conquest. You know, sex and love becomes separated. I don’t know but I think a lot of the times when it comes to making music or art, or whatever you want to call it, I just kind of have fun taking guesses at things. So ’The Moth’ is another example of that.”

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