{"id":11636,"date":"2016-10-25T05:30:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11636"},"modified":"2016-10-27T08:26:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T12:26:26","slug":"rhys-fulber-hates-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/25\/rhys-fulber-hates-laptops\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhys Fulber Hates Laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"conjure_one_02\"The ambient electronic music of Rhys Fulber<\/strong>‘s Conjure One<\/strong> is a far cry from the music he made in his industrial group Front Line Assembly<\/strong>. And it’s also not very much like his trance\/dance project Delerium<\/strong>. While most all of the producer\/composer\/musician’s work is built upon electronics, the lush soundscapes of Conjure One are decidedly more accessible than Fulber’s earlier work, and are more suited for active listening than as the soundtrack to a rave.<\/p>\n

The music of Conjure One \u2013 found on 2015’s Holoscenic<\/i> and three previous albums \u2013 is warm and melodic, and the songs alternate between alluring instrumental pieces and evocative tunes featuring ethereal vocals from guests including Sin\u00e9ad O’Connor<\/strong> and Poe<\/strong>. Fulber got his start with synthesizers when he was a teenager, and as long been drawn to electronic instruments. \u201cWhen post-punk started coming out, I found myself interested in electronic music,\u201d he says. \u201cI liked the sound of it. And when I first got my synthesizer, I was into bands like Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark<\/strong>, with all the chords and the pads, and the somber tone to a lot of it. I feel that is still in my music.\u201d<\/p>\n

When not writing, recording or performing as Conjure One, Rhys Fulber spends much of his time in his studio, producing other artists. \u201cI guess you could call that my day job,\u201d he says. \u201cIf it’s your profession, you like to stay busy.\u201d Taken as a whole, his body of work suggests an artist who’s driven to create. \u201cEven outside of the professional aspect, yes, I always have to be doing something creative,\u201d he admits. \u201cI don’t feel right without it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fulber is also interested in more challenging musical excursions, but for now he keeps those largely separate from the song-based approach of Conjure One. \u201cI’ve started to do completely live synthesizer improvisations with modular synths, but I can’t really do that in the context\u201d of Conjure One, he says. \u201cBecause people want to hear the songs. They don’t want to see some free-form improvisation; they want to hear the tunes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m not playing with a lot of real instruments now, simply because I just don’t have the resources,\u201d Fulber says. \u201cIt costs a fortune. I try to make it as live as I can within its context; I have an electronic setup and a vocalist.\u201d<\/p>\n