Interview With Fredrik Präntare

I recently had a chance to shoot a few emails back and forth with Fredrik Präntare, a talented musician and composer I previously blogged about here: https://colourfulsounddotorg.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/big-city-feeling/

Check out our chat below:

BT: In your video for “Intact Glass”, you create a montage of city scenes. What was your inspiration to use the city footage?

Prantare: It’s hard to mention one single inspiration. Most of the footage comes from the movie Koyaanisqatsi and therefore I’d say that the people who inspired me the most were the creators of this film. I love cities, they feel alive in a very different way and I feel my piece catches some of that feeling.

BT: Referring to your song “Hubble”, what inspires you the most about space?

Prantare: Relativity and how time and 3D-space intertwines and curves inspires my mind. Cosmology is a marvelous thing that has many feelings and thoughts common with music in the way I see it. It is ming-boggling, unexplored and very soothing. In some ways it is the perfect subject for music. 

BT: Why do you choose to write instrumental music as opposed to music with lyrics and vocals?

 Prantare:  I’m not really a good singer and I’m certainly not good with words. Instrumental music allows me to make music the way I want it.

 

BT: Can we be expecting a full studio album release anytime soon?

 

Prantare: Actually I started making a classical instrumental album just some days ago. I don’t know when I’ll be finished with it since I am studying engineering and these studies take a lot of my time. It will probably be a lot of piano with modern classical and minimalistic inspirations taking on subjects such as crime, cities and pollution. 

 

BT: Lastly, just for fun, if you were going on a one-year trip and had to choose between bringing along your guitar or your keyboard, which would you take and why?

 

Prantare: Probably my keyboard. Even though I love the guitar and all the different ways you can express yourself with it, the piano is more versatile when composing classical music and improvising on your own.

 

Big thanks to Fredrik Präntare for allowing me to blog about his music and for allowing me to interview him.