Interview with Artist Mote
By Mick Michaels
The Cosmick View: Hello, Mote and welcome to The Cosmick View! Thanks for taking some time to chat with us!
Mote: Thanks, my pleasure!
CV:
Describe your characterization of your particular sound and style and how does
that description distinctively define the music for your audience?
Mote: I would call it a rock n roll
style. I like to blend things in. I have no problem taking inspiration from
anywhere, but these days’ industrial music and post punk resonate very deeply.
CV:
Today, everyone talks about the artist and audience connection and how
important it is to their career. Is such a level of connection actually
achievable for an artist in your opinion, and if so, how have you made that
type of connection with your fans?
Mote: I think it is essential. Of course
it is achievable, but it requires being authentic and being yourself. If my
work has ever connected with anyone, that’s why.
CV:
Is listener contact an important part of your inner culture as an artist?
Mote: Yes, but you have to draw a line
when you need to. I love the love, but sometimes to take care of yourself, you
gotta do what you need or you’re of no use to anyone.
CV:
Can an artist truly interact with their fans and still maintain a level of intimate
privacy without crossing the line and giving up their “personal space” in your
opinion?
Mote: Yeah. I think so. Like I say, you
just have to have boundaries. Sharing stories or getting involved on a personal
level is the beauty of creating for an audience. So personally, I want to interact
as much as possible with people. As long as I can protect my energy when I need
to, I’m good.
CV:
From your point of view, is music, and its value, looked at differently around the world? What would
you say is the biggest difference
with such a multiple and diverse views among the various cultures?
Mote: Most definitely. Music is different in all cultures. I think a
culture’s music reflects their ways of living and thinking. I guess the biggest
difference
is how much it means to people. I think pretty much any human likes the
connection you can find in music, but for some it’s only religious. For some
it’s just for celebrating, for ceremonial moments, for background, for some,
like me, it’s a way of life.
CV:
Do you feel that an artist who has an international appeal, will tend to
connect more to American audiences or foreign audiences in general? Would they
be more enticed or intrigued to see that artist over indigenous acts because of
that “foreign flavor?”
Mote: I don’t know. It seems more to me
like American audiences like American shit. I think there is something of a
multicultural appeal in the US because of the diversity of music from the
country. Those styles come from other places originally, but I think there is a
homogenized thing that they like most. I think other countries are more open to
world music and indigenous styles. I’m generalizing for sure, but I just mean
in what’s popular. I think when artists use American styles, say the blues for
instance, in what they make, when Americans hear it coming back differently than it went out, that
intrigues them, because then it feels like a dialogue. I don’t know if I quite
see what you’re asking, but to me Americans have a harder time seeing
themselves in cultures outside of the US. I think they like being addressed
more directly if that makes sense.
CV:
Has modern-day digital technology given way to making an artist out of everyone
with a keyboard on some level in your opinion? Have the actual lines of what defines
an artist been blurred now?
Mote: Well everyone is an artist on some
level anyway. Everyone is creative. So technology is just a medium to use, it
doesn’t change people’s nature on its own I think those lines are always blurry
and subjective, and always have been.
Mote: The one who sets them isn’t trying to set them. They are just being themselves, doing what they like. Trendsetting comes from a natural place, a more earnest one. Then people pick up on it.
CV:
Has all music been broken into too many sub-genres in an effort to appease fan tastes in your
opinion? Is it fan or corporate appeasement? And if so, has such appeasements,
in actuality, weakened music’s impact as a whole by dividing audiences?
Mote: Haha, yeah I guess. I mean,
they’re just trying to categorize things because people like tidy organization.
None of it means anything, just the music means something. It doesn’t weaken
the music.
CV:
What can fans expect to see coming next from you?
Mote: We have our single “Industrial
Love” out now. There is another one coming out November 4th, and then next year
I see a lot of festivals and new music going down.
CV:
Thanks again Mote for taking some
time and talking. It is greatly appreciated.
Mote: Thank you, I enjoyed the
questions. Cheers.
Check
out Mote at:
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3fnFaQr5shMn4CFA0wpm7i?si=jDfFalZ1QMKrNfSbtKslbg
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motemusic/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/motenashville
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@_mote
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