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Scott Mosher One of the great virtues of current technology is how it enables enterprising, techno-savvy, multi-talented artists like Scott Mosher to share their art, their music, their "worlds", with the rest of us. Mosher has written and produced three projects featuring his art work, his synthesized, progressive rock and ambient electronic music. His discography includes the 1996 recording "Ambient Earth" and "Virtuality" released in 2001. Mosher's most recent CD, "Inferno" offers more of his awesome graphic art work and his trademark "other worldly" concept and musical composition. This recording is well produced and engineered as are all of Mosher's CDs. However, there is a musical proficiency on this 2004 release that his former works did not achieve. Most notably, "Inferno" offers a vastly improved vocal track. Like his other CDs, all music is composed, arranged and performed by Mosher. There are also some very judicious guitar solos performed by Todd Corsa; they are in fact stellar. Although his music is profoundly reminiscent of epic rock groups and projects of the 1970's and 80's, Mosher brings such mammoth creative energy to the table there are few groups, not to mention individual artists, who can match his originality and prolific output. As you read his responses to the CreatorsWeb interview questions below and as you listen to his excellent recordings while browsing through the artistic booklet which accompanies his CD, you will begin to get a feel for Mosher's generative prowess.
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Music Style And Audience
How do you classify your music?
Well, I'll leave it to the professionals to argue the minutiae, so I think "progressive rock" would do it justice.
Do you target a specific audience? If so, who?
It's both a blessing and a curse that I feel my music can appeal to a wide range of music enthusiasts. I suppose, my initial exposure is to the hard rock/heavy metal/progressive rock contingent, though I am hoping strong melodies and a vocal-oriented approach can guide me into realm of conventional popular music. Any music aficionado's who are up for a challenging and dynamic musical experience, well... I think my music would fit rather well. If it can fit almost all head sizes, I'd be quite satisfied.
Musical Instruments - Recording - Computer Hardware - Software
What musical instruments do you play?
I'm primarily a guitar player, but I use a synth workstation as my primary compositional tool. It doubles as a drum kit, keyboard, and bass guitarist minus the weird clothes.
An Ibanez 7-string guitar, an old Kramer bass guitar, and a Korg Triton. also use other people's stuff as the project requires it, but software-wise, I'm employing my trusty old Mac G3 and Pro-Tools, though I'm a digital music recording novice. Which is why my last studio bill is so significant.
Do you record in a home studio?
No, I do most of my musical composition on my Mac and Triton, a sequencing workstation. I would like to become more autonomous though, and delve more into building a small, productive, inexpensive and carbonated-beverage spill-proof home studio in the near future.
What equipment and software do you use?
The trusty Korg Triton, and my Mac G3 (looking to get a smokin' G5 one of these days, along with breaching the learning curve of Pro-Tools).
Musical Background -Influences
How did you get started playing music?
The obligatory "through required grade school music class" should suffice. I started on trumpet (ugh!), moved onto drums (no kits, just pads back then) and found my way to the guitar, which has served as my primary musical instrument throughout the years. That said, I still dabble in drums, and the keyboard, well... let's just say I'd never consider myself a keyboardist.
What has influenced your music the most?
Hmmm... If you are referring to what musician has inspired me the most, I'd unquestionably have to go with Kitaro, first and foremost. If you are leaving that an open-ended question, allowing for maneuverability outside the music realm, well it would be my interest in diversity in almost all aspects of life. That outlook has allowed me to approach music less bound by specific genre constraints and traditions. My musical sensibility is therefore more experimental though refined.
Music And Internet Marketing
How has the Internet effected you as a musician?
IT certainly has allowed me to reach many more people than I would sitting home composing in my bedroom. Considering I don't perform live and I don't have a band, without the internet, my publicity options are really quite limited. Of course, the trade-of with being a cyber-centric artist of any type is watching the clock as you dwindle away the hours online, in dark room, posting promoting and pontificating about the wonders of one's own musical creations... and of course what feels like carpel tunnel syndrome.
When did you start marketing your music on the Internet?
Originally, around 1998, when I first "got connected", but I was marketing and promoting a CD that was 3 years old at the time. Around 2001, when I finally released "Virtuality", which I honestly consider the foundation of my musical excursions, the promotional campaign I embarked upon to promote that was nothing short of revelatory.
What has been the most effective way to market your music on the Internet?
No if's and's or but's, CDBaby. CDBABY has been a great tool for both distribution and exposure, without a doubt. Secondly, would be forging ties to the online community through message boards, and forums, and lastly but not leastly, fabricating my own website which drives traffic directly to yours truly, the artist/musician in question.
Musicians And The Future
What performance venues are you currently exploring?
Absolutely none! Though an intriguing concept, and I've been asked this on more than one occasion over the years, performing just isn't my forte. I much prefer to work as a semi-perfectionist composer/arranger of original material. It's more personally and artistically rewarding, and the only way I can organically express myself (thoughts, viewpoints, emotions, personality - scary as that may be). I can see a grandiose lightshow with attendant cinematic movie-screen approach, though, if I ever did attempt to put something together for a live performance. Just allow me to release a few more CD's of music so I can arrange it as "An evening with, the mad doctor of syllabic syllogistics and synergy... Scott Mosher" and I'll be there!
What does the future hold for you?
I would like to say a few Grammy's and an MTV Music award (I'll take a Country Music award, too), but seriously and realistically, the time-honored tradition of composing new CD's and releasing them to the general masses followed by a massive PR campaign, is my path for the immediate future. I wouldn't mind making an excursion into CD/DVD with multi-media enhancements and flourish, though. Plus, I've got my graphic design business to keep the other side of the creative brain busy as well...
Finally, is there anything else you want to say about yourself?
I'm not a statistician, a nuclear biologist or a African safari guide, but I think my music can entertain and delight anyone who decides to disconnect themselves from the corporate machinery for at least a small period of time. It's dynamic, distinguished, dramatic, dysinterian (???)and fits all head sizes.
