The Do Lab Interviews Desert Dwellers

This coming Saturday night we host some folks who have contributed SO MUCH to west coast dance culture – the Desert Dwellers! Rara, Amani & Treavor arrive in Victoria Saturday to weave their well-honed magic to a packed Sunset Room dance floor! Bound to be a night to remember this gathering features aerial hoops from Cadence, the Dharma Dohme hosting Nagdeo’s Teahouse, live art from Urbanheart, dance & glow performances from Faeri & Lushious Entertainment!

Recently those amazing folks at The Do Lab also hosted Desert Dwellers, and beforehand they had an opportunity to interview these fine fellows about their music & adventures! Here, we re-publish the first bits of the interview.. for the rest, visit The Do Lab!

Desert Dwellers – Makyen Ghrir Allah (Desert Dwellers Remix) [right-click to download]

 
Do LaB:
How do the three of you approach making music as a group as compared to doing it individually?

Desert Dwellers:
“We’ve all had slightly different backgrounds as composer/producers but since we’ve been working together the goal has been to harmonize our work flow so that we basically work in a very similar manner alone as we do in a group. We all work using Logic Pro as our main workstation. Ideas are generated in short form and experimented with until they feel really good, then are expanded into arrangements. A lot of work goes into sound design by using the latest effects plug-ins, software synthesizers, sample libraries and studio recordings. Once the arrangement feels good we mix to get the overall sound balanced, crisp and punchy, then we send it to a mastering studio so that it sounds amazing when played on sound systems large and small. If we’re working together, we send ideas back and forth over the internet until we all feel good about them. As we’ve always lived apart, this is just been the natural evolution of how we work together wether we’re physically in the same place, or thousands of miles away from each other.”

Do LaB:
Are there any special intentions when producing music or performing live?

Desert Dwellers:
“I think for all of us the intention is to make people feel good and bring them together to celebrate life. Music has been a powerful force in all of our lives, and so in many ways making music is a celebration of the joy that it brings to each of us. The fact that dancing, movement, spirituality, community and empowerment are all positive offshoots of listening to music that truly speaks to one’s soul, makes it that much more important to us. Not only is it what we love to do, but it makes the world we live in a better place to be.

Read the rest of the interview at The Do Lab!