Creator to Creators S6 Ep 87 Mundane Miracle

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Electro, like a lot of music, can make you want to sing along, or play the steering-wheel drum, or get a body part moving, but it generally works by first taking over your head and holding it still for the coming bombardment of sound.
So it is with “Culmination,” the sixth track this year, releasing on November 24, from Mundane Miracle.
“Listening to electronic music is like an explosion in your brain, with all these crazy things going on,” he said. “It just really sets your brain off.”
“I think, with all my songs, it’s kind of like a flow of consciousness,” he said. “It is trying to put out different sounds, and once I have a little base, then I try out different elements, listening repetitively to the song trying different elements.”
Mundane Miracle, is starting to put out the music that he has wanted to make since 2010, when he first heard Matthew Dear’s “I Can’t Feel.”
“Culmination” is somewhat different from the five other songs he has put out so far.
“I started out basically creating the atmospheric undertones to it, and I thought I was just going to have that as a song, just that atmospheric sound.”
That’s the sound that hooks a listener at first. He describes it as “almost eerie, kind of ominous.”
“Most of the songs I’ve been working on more recently have that kind of eerie undertone, but at the same time they’re — I feel like there’s a happiness to them.”
But then he kept on listening, over and over. 
“Sometimes, I’ll keep listening to something, and with ‘Culmination,” I thought, ‘Oh, it would be good to have this here, and this here, and it just kind of evolved from there.”
“Eerie, kind of ominous” is an apt description of the atmospheric underlayer, but coming in and exploding over it is a fireworks display of sound.
He said he started hearing in it hints of other electronic music that he liked, and when he listened to those songs he tried to identify the kinds of things that he liked so that he could incorporate in his song the feelings they aroused.
“I tried to capture the feel as best I could in my own song, and I was really pleased with it, and so, ‘Culmination’ — I called it that because I think it’s a culmination of my being.”
His background is not music, but he has always been a listener. He says he loved classic rock — Jethro Tull was a favorite — and also krautrock, which he called “kind of like classic rock mixed with some electronic.”
But the thought of making music, let alone publishing it, never entered his head as a realistic possibility.
And then he heard “I Can’t Feel.”
“I loved all different types of electro music, but for some reason that hit me in a way that I said to myself, ‘Wow, I really want to try this.’ I thought it would just be a fun hobby.”
He recounts in his artist bio that he was inspired to contact Dear to compliment his song and to ask about music production.
And Dear responded.
“Although my intent was to simply do this for a low-level hobby,” he writes, “he provided a timeline for when I could expect to write and release a song, which I never imagined would even be possible.”
Fourteen years later, it has become a much higher-level hobby. He is putting out music and promoting it and working on more. He has a “lot of other singles in the making.” His genre, and he will stick with it, is lo fi, instrumental electro, “but within that I bounce around between different styles and approaches.”
“It’s still a fun hobby,” he said, “and I am so happy with it right now.
His fun, the happiness, is reflected in the titles he has so far put out: “Magnum Poopus,” “Herculean Homunculus,” “Confetti Illuminati,” and “Sweatpant Euphoria.” His first was “Surreal.”
“If I could make a living off it — I don’t need to be famous; I don’t even know if my genre really lends itself to being really popular — but even if I could just make a modest living off it, that would be a dream come true.”

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