Emilie Autumn
Emilie
Autumn began to play the violin when she was only 4 years old. When she was 15
she went to the conservatory but she left after only 2 years because she didnt
really get along with the teachers. They thought she was too rebellious!!!
And
she is, she doesnt want a record deal with a big record company because they
wont let here put her full songs on here site as mp3s!! (Look on here website
under enchant microsite to download the full Enchant album!)
Emilie calls here music Fantasy-rock. She often wheres wings on pictures and on stage, and that suits here music perfectly.
CD's
On A Day... (een album met klassieke muziek)
By The Sword (een benefiet single voor 9/11)
Chambermaid EP
Enchant
Links
www.emilieautumn.com
http://www.fan.friday-mourning.org/ea. Emilie Autumn Fan Listing
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Interview with Emilie Autumn
1 If you lived in an other time
period witch would that be and what kind of person would you be?
EA: I would pop up in the Elizabethan era, and I would be a lady in waiting.
I would partake of the bawdy court life, and play my virginal all day. Then I
would advise the queen as to her intimate situations and sleep in her bed. After
a few years of such a life, I would be burned as a witch following the discovery
that ten of my previous twelve lovers had died from the same mysterious illness
- some sort of rash. Of course I would be guilty, but they still deserved it
because they were pricks.
2 Whats your fave kind of fairy?
EA: The kind that bites non-believers in the arse when they're sleeping.
Seriously, I am partial to the Aguane, which is an entire race of female fairies
who wear red hoods in order to render themselves invisible. As well, I love the
Dryads, another female race. I suspect I may be a dryad changeling. Dryads are
tree spirits who hang out around willows and such. They are also fantastic
musicians who will lure you into their world and keep you there for a
dangerously long time. The Green Ladies in general are very very important. I'd
like a brigade of Green Ladies to follow me around on tour.
3 How/when did you lear to make such beautiful clothing?
EA: I was raised in a costume shop and that certainly awoke my imagination to
alternative garb. I think that, because of this, I don't differentiate between
clothing and costume. I was not taught to sew my own clothes, but I've done it
for years and practiced and gotten better at it by sheer experimentation as well
as taking clothing apart and seeing how it was made and learning from that. As
for the designs themselves, I always have a very particular vision of what I
want to see on my body, what feels right, and what expresses a song, an album, a
stage performance, or a Tuesday. Nothing is more gratifying than going on a
famous late night TV show in an outfit that you've created every stitch of, and
having all the Hollywood stylists oohing and ahhing over it and asking where it
came from. Experiences like these are what has given me the confidence to call
myself a real designer, leading to my work at my boutique, WillowTech House
(www.willowtechhouse.com).
4 You use a lot of diffrent styles in your music, is there a reason for that or
does it just happen when you wight the songs?
EA: I use different styles because I've learned different styles and I'm
influenced by different styles. Having been brought up since birth to be a
classical violinist gives me some unique insight into that world and way of
writing, but I've studied jazz and other types of music and been exposed to even
more. I draw most pointedly upon baroque, renaissance and medieval music because
those are my favorite periods, and that's the music I hear when I close my eyes.
For my next album, "Opheliac," I'll be drawing upon gothic choirs,
harpsichords, victorian piano arrangements, and music boxes to name a few. Where
and how my influences are used really depends on the song and what it lyrically
or emotionally calls for...it's rather organic and seems obvious to me at the
time. There is always a picture I'm trying to paint with a song, and the variety
of styles and arrangements help me to do that much more effectively than if I
were a four piece band that never changed it's instrumentation.
5 What is your fav song off your Enchant album??
EA: "Ever." I've never played it live because it would take an
unusually devoted audience to sit through it, but I believe it is lyrically the
best, and it is also the most personal. It's the saddest song on the album, and
by far the most personal, with "What If" being a close second.
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