3/23/2023 0 Comments Sidney gish![]() SG: I put that one up in 2015 because I had all this basically unfinished stuff on my computer, but it would never get finished, and I wanted to just like, release it to have a starting point to improve upon whenever I could, and by starting kind of small, I’d be able to be. What made you decide to upload the music? Since then, how has your approach changed over time in terms of writing and recording? So it’s kind of just a steady slope of practicing gradually over time and just having fun with that whenever I had the time to.ĭA: You put up a large release with a number of tracks on it, I think it was 2015, on Bandcamp. So I learned a bit about DAWs and like, how to use GarageBand better, and then through that I kept using GarageBand up until 2016. Sidney Gish: Well, I first started writing music on paper in middle school, and then I had GarageBand on my computer a bit later into that, so I started learning how to work with loops and stuff, and then once I got to high school, I started taking a music tech class. I was wondering if you could give me some insight into when you first started playing music and when you first started writing music. If I understand correctly, you started writing, recording around 2011. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.ĭominic Anthony: To start out, I was curious about your musical background. The interview will be rebroadcast on Indie Overnight this Saturday, Oct. She is currently a student at Northeastern University and plans to work on a third album during her next Winter Break.ĭominic Anthony sat down with the artist earlier this month. And she’ll perform at the Boston Calling Music Festival in May.Sidney Gish is a Boston-based artist who released her second album last December. ![]() She was named one of NPR ’s Slingshot Artists to Watch the same year. ![]() In 2018, one of Gish’s songs made it onto one of Spotify’s “New Music Friday” playlists. Gish has an agent and a manager, but otherwise said, “I want to be as self-sufficient as I can possibly be.” In high school, she also started recording and posting covers of songs, or made up her own about “ The Hunger Games or whatever,” she said.Īt Northeastern, she did co-ops at Aircraft Music Library and Island Records, and started teaching herself everything she could about music production and management, while honing her guitar-playing skills. She played the recorder in elementary school, started fiddling around with recording music in middle school, and performed in her high school choir. “And so instead, I’m like, ‘you can’t do that,’ the only creative work I’m trying to make is going to be the stuff I actually share, so that way it’ll be less of a hellscape and I’ll be happier.” “I was living in this huge world of all the ideas I’d had that I’d written down and been listening back to, to scan for quality and maybe include in creative work, and I’d been doing that my whole life,” Gish said. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern UniversityĪnd even then, she has hundreds of ideas that haven’t seen the light of day. Gish composed her first two albums, Ed Buys Houses and No Dogs Allowed, by stitching together several of these ideas, pairing poetry with melodies that may have been conceived months apart. Gish saved hundreds of other notes and has thousands of voice recordings stored on her phone, quick blips of melodies captured before they slipped out of her head. In an attempt to organize it, she recently deleted 2,000 notes that contained half-formed poems, couplets, thoughts, funny observations, and the like. Her iPhone, she said, is a “hellscape” of ideas. The vocal trick betrayed the same sense of conflicting layers that Pitchfork, The Fader, and The Guardian each noted in their descriptions of her work, and it indicates something about how Gish thinks. She changes the tone of her voice in a way that relays two different pieces of information at the same time: what she was saying and a commentary on what she was saying. Gish does that at times when describing herself or her songwriting process. “New year, new me!” she said in a high-pitched voice that both mocked the earnestness of those yearly goals and acknowledged their value. Gish, who’s studying music industry and is set to graduate from Northeastern in December, was fresh off a tour with the critically-acclaimed musician Mitski and had just notched a win at the Boston Music Awards (she was nominated for four awards and won Album of the Year for her second album, No Dogs Allowed), and was thinking about New Year’s resolutions for 2019.
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