An Interview With Stephin Merritt (November 8, 2022)

Last week I had the enormous pleasure of interviewing Stephin Merritt, the mastermind behind The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies, and the Future Bible Heroes. As a solo artist, he composed the scores for the Academy Award-nominated film Pieces of April (2003), Eban and Charley (2000), and Dans La Cour (2014). On 2006, he released the soundtrack album Showtunes, which contains three pieces of musical theatre done in collaboration with Shi-Zheng Chen: The Orphan of Zhao (2003), Peach Blossom Fan (2004), and My Life as a Fairytale (2005). The soundtrack to the late Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete & Pete featured many of his songs (with The Magnetic Fields, The Gothic Archies, and The 6ths). On 2014, Stephin published his first book, 101 Two-Letter Words, illustrated by longtime New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast (Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir etc.), in which Stephin has written an original four-line rhyming poem for each of the 101 two-letter words included in The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. You can read more about Stephin and all of his projects here: http://www.houseoftomorrow.com/stephin 00:00 INTRO 00:12 QUESTION 1: Influences on arranging 01:43 QUESTION 2: First instruments 02:31 QUESTION 3: Writer's block 05:05 QUESTION 4: The Charm Of The Highway Strip You can hear The Magnetic Fields HERE: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6RWjT... #stephinmerritt #magneticfields #interview #music See The Magnetic Fields live on tour: 2022 Tour Latinoamérica: http://www.houseoftomorrow.com/calendar 2023 US Spring tour: http://www.houseoftomorrow.com/calendar Read the full transcription of this interview: https://santiagoherrera.neocities.org...