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Making music is a total hassle, really.
I hope nobody I wrote about becomes too upset.
Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument.
Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.
What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.
Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.
A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.
It'd be tricky to read into my lyrics - some are autobiographical, but sometimes I just like the sound of words.
Someone explained parallax error to me, and I thought Ah, with a cheap camera, it would be pretty easy to behead someone.
When I'm in my studio, it usually feels like a hassle to actually press all the buttons and make music come out the other end.
People call me a bedroom electronic musician, which I suppose I am. But I hate most electronic music; I find it really boring.
When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved.
It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.
I love playing piano, too, but I don't sit around doing it all day. Part of that's because I don't have one in my house - I only have synths.
There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons.
I love the finished product, but I find working in the studio a chore - I use an old-fashioned setup, so the recording process can be frustrating.
I don't think of my music as something that works well in the background. And because a lot of it isn't in 4/4, people might not like to dance to it.
I'm a bit of a control freak, so I always appreciate being inside the nuts and bolts of the music - I don't like newer programs that paper over your cracks.
I love playing the drums - I really get a lot out of it - but I don't think I'm a good enough drummer to be playing live drums on all 10 tracks on my album.
The internet becomes too arch. The clip is uploaded and reuploaded endlessly with banner headlines and crappy 3-D graphics. Stuff rots in this supposedly clinical space.
I might've set out to write a particular song about a particular girl, but my experience will run out after four lines, so instead of getting obsessed with the girl, I write about the clothes I'm wearing.
I got really paranoid, burning every song onto three CDs and hiding them in various places around the house just in case I got burgled and there was, y'know, a fire in my bedroom. I told friends where I was hiding them in case I was killed.
The nice thing about working for a label like Domino is that there's no pressure: They've got a roster of 40 active bands, and they can bang out an album or single in a week, so it's not the end of the world to not have a Max Tundra album in 2005.
I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is a bit self-obsessed. I don't know if I really have a persona, in that respect. I want to just make the music and hide away.
The program I use is called MED Soundstudio. It's basically a column of numbers that relate to pitch, duration, the type of sound. If I want to play a chord, I have to press keys on a keyboard - like a computer keyboard, on my Amiga - that relate to sharps and flats, note by note.