 David McFarlane studied conservatory piano as a child and then formally trained as a visual artist, which has been his primary creative outlet until recently. He has been actively making music for the past 20 years in some form or another, working with live and recorded improvisational sound experiments, sonic landscapes, and live scores for dance performances. It is only recently that these abstract tendencies have taken on more conventional forms.
“I’ve always liked music that evokes a mood,” says David McFarlane. “I am constantly amazed at how closely sound is connected to memory, how a microphone remembers the sonic characteristics of a room and how that can transport the listener back to a specific time and place or an imagined new one. I think I instinctually go for that with my music and the result is often a kind of melancholic nostalgia.”
“The songs have always been there,” McFarlane explains, “but I am at a point in my life now where, for many reasons, I have the right insight to express them properly. I have always had guitars around and to a degree, it is the conventions, history, and context that the guitar brings to the table that helps steer my creative process.”
For music and more information:
http://www.mcfarlanemusic.com
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