We’re about a month away from your new album release. What does your day-to-day look like with the album rush building up?
I’ve been back to work full-on since January 2nd. My days are really busy—emails, interviews, rehearsals for my live shows. I’m in Ghent working on the lighting for my live shows with a light artist from Amsterdam, Nick Verstand. I try to put most of my energy into practicing live because that’s where the inspiration comes from. I often write songs while rehearsing, though right now, with the album about to drop, I’m not in that headspace.
I heard that reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism had a significant impact on this album. How did that book influence your creative process?
Absolutely. In 2022, I had some sketches but no drive to make a new album. That book was alarming but inspiring. It made me realize how the economy around big tech is reshaping how we evolve as people. The technical language and psychological weight of it felt fitting for electronic music. Songs like “Demolishing” and “Statistical Modeling” came directly from that inspiration.
Did reading that book make you reflect on the role of technology in your own music?
I was already making electronic music, and I don’t use AI in my process. But where it hit me was realizing how algorithms affect how artists present their work on social media. The danger is that more and more artists tailor their posts to please the algorithm, often to the detriment of their artistic practice.
