Lisa Gerrard
Lisa Gerrard
Lisa Gerrardis an Australian musician, singer and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with music partner Brendan Perry...
destroys elated five gigs hitting life love morning next notice onstage road seven strange tire volume wears
(Performing live) invigorates you, but life on the road wears you down. The frequencies hitting your ears and the volume can tire you, but you're so elated onstage you don't notice it. The next morning you implode. You do five gigs in a row, have a day off, then seven in a row, day off -- it's a strange kind of torture. You love it, but it destroys you.
success
At the end of the day, success has nothing to do with money,
became conclusion conversation couple logical pieces rebuild talking telephone various
We had a telephone conversation, and we were talking about the various pieces of what we'd done. There was nothing calculated. We had a couple of conversations, and because we could rebuild our friendship, it became a logical conclusion that we should do some concerts.
work
Is this working OK? I feel I can never make it work in interviews. I feel like I've just been rambling.
album both brought feeling half older pieces save together wait written
About half the set is new stuff. We save the older pieces for the encores, if we get them. We haven't written together in a while, but we've both brought in things we've written on our own. We don't know if there will be a new album yet; we'll have to wait and see how Brendan is feeling at the end of all this.
silence important done
Silence is so important when you're working, You must have periods where you don't hear anything, just to reflect on you've already done. Otherwise you traumatize your relationship with the piece that you're working on.
thinking creative important
We always have a basic structure for a piece of music, but we encourage the musicians to elaborate on whatever they feel at that particular moment. There's a definite conversation happening on stage. I think it is very important for us as creative musicians, to instantaneously describe any energy that is visible at that time.
strong attitude arrogant
I suppose musicians have the kind of arrogant attitude that they can actually offer the world something, because through their passive power, they're able to be the strongest arms that they can be, incredibly strong. That's what keeps us going.
musician fragile
There's something extremely fragile about musicians, and that's their strength.
morning love-is next-day
There's the false security of feeling a great force of love from your audience one day and then the next morning you wake up and you're exhausted, and that love is something you have to reach for the next day.
perfection desire want
There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.
car fuel way
With touring, it's like you're in this car and you've got this much fuel. You know that if you drive carefully and take your time and search your way so that you don't take the wrong turn, you'll have exactly enough fuel to go where you're going. You are empowered as you go by your audience.
memories boredom mediocrity
Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.
collaboration
A true collaboration is trickier than a marriage because you can't hide.