Interviews

1. Dear Master, I've been told by a very intelligent unicorn that you firmly believe in disharmony as a form of beauty. Would it be possible for you to record something resembling the Ainulindalë?
The Goddess Prevails (May Her Hooves Never Be Shod) -Merino Gómez

MW: While I prefer a female unicorn deity to a gaseous alpha male vertebrate of cosmic heft anytime, I'd rather choose no deity or deities at all. I think it's high time we stopped worshiping gods and started to aim at becoming gods. But your unicorn indeed seems to have accurate information regarding Aarni...I promise to use disharmony to arrive at harmony. Both sound beautiful to me, I sense no difference.

2. Could a robot (or some nonhuman system) reproduce the creative and/or esoterical processes that have lead to the releases of the Aarni albums? Why (not)? -Bastiaan

MW: Dear Bastiaan, I think this has already happened, as all we humans by our very nature are biorobots functioning on mechanical and chemical reflexes. As for some nonhuman system, I believe it could do a better job at creativity than Aarni, because by definition it wouldn't be a descendant of the apes. Give me an insect philosopher from the not-too-distant future of the Earth anytime. Mammals currently seem bad at doing non-mammalian things, although this can and will change with time. We in Aarni constantly aim at transcending primate bioscripts and that's why we make music so slowly - music is often neglected when seeking to improve ourselves.

3. Mozart, Puccini or Wagner? E.A. Poe, C.A. Smith or Milton? Kantele, electric guitar or voice? Heathen symposium with your fans/victims, or intimate romantic dinner with partner? (Flemish/Walloon) Beer, absynth or whisky? Dreamy classical music, depressive darkwave or loud, crushing, but strangely satisfying black metal? "The poem for the poems sake", or "How to make a Dadaist Poem?" by Tristan Tzara? -Maxime Nys

MW: Oh dear Maxime, you appear really fond of multiple choice questions. Maybe you should ask yourself (in a calm & friendly tone of voice) just why that is? Yet for your amusement: Mozart, Poe, electric guitar, heathen symposium, absynth, classical, "How To Make A Dadaist Poem".

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