M icrocosms is one of my only albums that features other performers. In your first album Microcosms, do you play all the instruments? It got published nine years ago, is there anything you would change if you recorded the album right now? It was ultimately this lack of creative input and control that led me to leave these projects and focus on my own work. In Voice Coils, all of the music was written by one of the guys in the group, so I just performed the scores he gave me. In Cellular Chaos, I replaced the bassist who had moved away from NYC so I just learned the parts she had written and performed them.

With both of these bands, I didn’t have a significant role in creating the songs that we played. How was your experience with the bands where you played before, Cellular Chaos and Voice Coils? The first was a no-wave band and the second a Avant-rock one, right?

I think if you orchestrated a black metal song for a string quartet, it would sound just like Steve Reich or Philip Glass. I think black metal has a lot of basic musical traits that are similar to minimalism – a constant pulse, adherence to tonality, repetition of notes/tremolos in order to build melodies, etc. I listened to a lot of rock music and played in bands as a teenager! Later on in grad school, I got into many bands from the second wave of black metal. The bands I listened to the most while I was growing up were Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Metallica, Tool, and The Smashing Pumpkins. Were you interested in them? You also said that you found some connections between Black metal and minimalism, can you please elaborate this?

Some artist like Yes or Yngwie Malmsteen were inspired by classic music. I read that you started listening to classic rock and metal. Listen to her music or go to her concerts: you will sell your Mac and turntables and buy a piano. Ultraviolet, her last work, update John Cage’s legacy, but sounding personal and innovator. She has been interviewed by famous newspapers, Pitchfork has praised her records and she has played in festivals such as Primavera Sound, Rewire Festival, Mutek San Francisco and in the next months, Sonar Barcelona and End of the Road. Kelly Moran with her last album has achieved a notoriety and respect not very common in the electronic world.

All of Me by Kelly Moran