10-part Podcast - Trey Gunn & Markus Reuter

 Markus Reuter and I have done the most complete interview/discussion I have ever participated in.

It started out as one segment of his ongoing Podcast, but we quickly became so engaged that it blossomed out to 10 full episodes!

The spine of the discussion was a thorough look through all of my work -- through all the different time periods, instruments and approaches. Because Markus is so deeply informed about all the music he was full of deep and interesting questions. Sometimes extremely detailed questions about a specific piece or a story he had heard. We covered all of it!

(Keep in mind, all of these stories are entirely my own perspective.)

However, the fascinating thing that happened over the course of these discussions is that they really were discussions and dialogue -- not an interview. So, we ended up veering off into some strange and interesting topics including movement, psychology, martial arts, card magic, practice, trance states, leaving things incomplete, aging, innocence and so many other unexpected things that always ended up tying themselves back to music.

We did one whole episode just on exploring our compositional process. And we even did another where I interviewed Markus about his earliest musical experience.

This was an amazing process.

Topics touched on in Part Two

The making of Crimson's "VROOOM" ep + "THRAK", "TCOL", hard panning, The Third Star, Toni Childs, Shrinivas, David Bottrill, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Michael Brook, Real World Studios, The ProjeKcts(1, 2, 3 & 4), Quodia, Eno, Deception Of The Thrush, Oyster Soup, UKZ, TOOL, playing without hearing yourself the end of KC for me and more.

Trey Gunn & Markus Reuter - Youtube discussions