As well as his influence on Zerkalo, I gather also that you’ve studied and written extensively on Tarkovsky. Can you tell me a bit more about your relationship to his work?
“I have a strong relationship to the work of Andrei Tarkovsky because we pursue the same direction artistically: ‘sculpting in time’, with faith.”
How important is performance to Zerkalo? Do you think of Zerkalo as performance art? What effect are you trying to create with your live shows?
“It’s always a performance to reinterpret the songs live. It requires a lot of strength to feel the original emotions again, which made me write the songs in the first place. The musical and visual aspect of it creates a sort of surreal theatre where everything is happening.”
“We don’t want to talk about robots, machines, aliens and all the common electro music subjects used since Kraftwerk. We want to talk about reality, the invisible world of poetry and science.”
There is a strong literary sensibility to Zerkalo; your work is dense with allusions to the likes of Nietzsche, Tsvetaeva, Woolf, Spinoza…
“Heinrich Mueller and I share the same interests in literature, philosophy and science, it’s normal that these studies influence our work. We don’t want to talk about robots, machines, aliens and all the common electro music subjects used since Kraftwerk. We want to talk about reality, the invisible world of poetry and science.”
Can you tell me about your Vita project?
“With Vita I express a very intimate and experimental music with absolutely no boundaries. It’s like walking through my mind…”
Would you describe your work as poetical? Do you feel there’s a dearth of poeticism/lyricism in most electronic music?
“Yes my work is poetical, definitely, and I would like to hear more lyricism in electronic music, more warmth, more heart, more passion.”
What next for Zerkalo?
“We are finishing a new maxi called ‘In Extendo’.”
Kiran Sande
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