Jonah Rapino
Jonah Rapino
avoiding classic seems
It seems like it's the classic of classics. I think we had been avoiding it for a little while.
active catalyst inspires silence
For us, silence is an active catalyst for inspiration. It inspires us to make a racket.
bills entirely essential fill hold nine paying starting theaters touring weeks year
We're touring nine to 14 weeks a year and are starting to fill theaters that hold up to 2,000 people. So we are actually paying bills with this - not all our bills, you know, but at least the essential ones. We're not entirely in the dark.
cool nice
It was cool because we were improvising, and it was nice that we had the film to tell us where to go.
classical composed helps modern music temper understand uses voice
We do a lot with a little. We also have composed modern classical music for orchestras, so that helps us understand how to voice and temper our uses of instruments.
awesome night parts perfect scoring
By now, we're heavily scoring and writing harmonically interesting parts that we play every night and try to perfect timing-wise. It's an awesome challenge.