Filmmaker 5 Interview with Classic Couple Academy

"The music is coming out of a place. You cannot separate the music making from the place and from which it originates. If you’re playing piano in the cabin with those walls and that lumber, there is no other place in the world that sounds like that. You didn’t go on a trip to the cabin, you didn’t fly there, drive there and spend a week there. You’re not sitting there with the fire or the snow outside or the birds and the squirrels running around. You’re just not having that experience. But we can record it.

I just love everything about filmmaking and love learning about it. It is the only medium that can put people in a room watching the film and they can go to Japan, go to Siberia, go to France, go to all those places in New York and the cabin in the blink of an eye. You know it’s not exactly the same, but it is a much closer version of getting there. There is an immersive capacity that only cinema can do. Film lets you actually look at the thing. And not only looking at the thing, but you’re also seeing the thing moving frame by frame and you’re hearing sounds. It’s strongly immersing you in a place. And that’s it—the goal is that you’re in the cabin at the end of the film."

Excellent interview questions with Kami Spangenberg of Classic Couple Academy helped prompt me to speak to more of the nuts and bolts in Cabin Music and also why we needed the Crypt for concerts.