1) Where did you grow up, and, if different, where does the 'band' hail from?

I grew up dreaming of being a successful musician. Since I'm still dreaming, I feel like I'm still growing up. Currently, that is happening in San Francisco, which also happens to be from where the band hails.

2) If your music was to be experienced as a different artistic medium, what would it be and why?

Have you seen La Jetée by Chris Marker? It's a French science fiction film from the early 60's that uses surprisingly pastoral, high-contrast black and white stills. Only photographs. In one particular scene, the protagonist, a nameless man, has been sent back in time to meet a woman he knows only as the familiar face that has haunted him since childhood. They are walking together silently through a museum of "timeless" (taxidermy) animals, joyfully experiencing Paris in its final days before annihilation. A particularly striking still image shows the couple, blurred and faceless, shot through the multiple panes of glass of an enclosure (like an oversized vitrine) filled with exotic, silhouetted birds and the sun streaming in from behind... I would like to believe that our music is the aural equivalent of that image.

 


  

 

3) Though it's a tired old question, tell us a little about your biggest influences/inspirations.

Our biggest influences include curio shops, faces in wood paneling, musical boxes, dark things in the trees, chance operation, and the notion of a heaven.

4) List four adjectives that you think describe your music, either sonically, creatively, or experientially.

Our music has been called "an underwater haunted bird sanctuary kaleidoscope." That is my favorite description so far, though you asked specifically for adjectives, so I will say "brittle", "submerged", "Arctic", and "radiant."

5) Is there a special or noteworthy story about your project that might be interesting to fans of your music?

Capsules began as a collection of fingerstyle guitar pieces. That's how I envisioned the record from the outset. It transformed itself into an ambient music project in a single day.