INTERVIEW TO NVRS AKA NURS
Part of Cian Orbe & Witch Spectra since beginning of 2018, Nvrs is one of the most mysterious of our artists. we dedicate this entry to her for know more about her plans for the next year and of course about her tastes and thoughts.
Well,
First i want to know what means “NVRS”? what is the concept or the relation of
your name with your music?
What Nvrs is keeps changing and evolving. Honestly, I first
had this idea two years ago that I would make a fake website for a fictional
teenaged girl as an artpiece . This girl would be very misandrist, vindictive,
misanthrophic and nihilistic. It was a little like self-parody. The website would
literally hate the user and tell him or her to do things like self-harm. Like a
teenager would, it had misspellings and kind of girly imagery.
On the homepage, it said “nurs” as a misspelling of nurse.
It had what I meant as an ironic web cam pornographic video as a joke. The
voice-over to the video would belittle and emasculate the viewer,
Then it evolved into more of a serious try at very softcore
porn with glitch music and vocie. I added videos to the major porn sites, but
it wasn’t being seen in the way I intended. I also wasn’t trying to get money
from guys wanking. To succeed at that, I would have needed to change things to
be successful. I dropped the whole porn and ironic website idea and deleted
everything.
What remained was the voice-over element, which got some
attention. It first started as an acted-out persona, and has since become an
honest expression of my own thoughts and feelings. That’s where the name comes
from. I put Nvrs because no one was understanding that I meant it as nurse misspelled.
Plus, online people use v instead of the letter v and u. The letters just look
cool, I think.
In techno, other people have these short names that are
combinations of characters. For example: SNTS, VTSS, ISNT, SARIN, HKKPTR, HOBI,
OAKE and so on... NVRS sounds like one of those. It just works.
Dark
electro, industrial, noise, techno, we see a lot different genres mixed in your
music, but how you define your own music?
A short answer is techno with vocals. The voice work can
spoken word monologues or just words and phrases. The music has been
post-industrial, idm (like Aphex Twin), gabber, witch house. Generally dark
electronic music that overlaps with techno.
Which are
your main music influences? Artists? Albums, Songs?
My main influences are people that I know and have worked
with. I like Humanfobia, Eastel, the Beryllium label contributers, etc. I also
pay attention to other vocalists. I like the woman in a band called NAKED, Nero
Bellum from Psyclon Nine and particularly The Horrorist aka Oliver
Chessler.
What do
you want to express in your lyrics, what emotions and feelings?
I don’t want to express anything in particular. It’s just
things that I think and feel. I’m just being honest. It’s what I have to say in
general. There’s no mission statement or brand other than what comes out of it
naturally.
From where
comes all that erotic influence in your music and videos?
If you listen to my lyrics and understand what I’m saying,
it’s not erotic content. I has a phone sex kind of voice, but that’s just how I
feel like speaking. Most people who listen to my stuff aren’t native English
speakers. I think the reaction is to how I say things rather than what I’m
saying. Generally what I say is that people suck and life sucks. Maybe that
could be erotic somehow.
What do
you think about all this underground music world, with artists who release
digital works in netlabels and all that occult music side?
I don’t like calling it occult or underground. To me, the
music I like is very good, real and better than other music. I’m not afraid to
say that people making serious dark electronic music are making the best music
ever, and better than what is or has been done in other spaces. In other words.
I don’t see it as a type of music, but the BEST music.
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How is the
scene of dark electronic music in your hometown, city? Or in what scene do you
feel comfortable, goth, noise, industrial, etc?
I had spent most of my life in and around the NYC area. I’m
in my late 30s and have been in Oakland, CA for the last five years. There
isn’t anything particular going on in this area that isn’t going on elsewhere.
Apart of
release your own music, we see a lot of setlists and DJ mixes yours?
Can you
explain us and tell us about your DJ side?
Most musicians don’t earn income from their own produced
music but make money from live shows or DJing. I’m hearing impaired, wear
hearing aids and can’t be in loud places because it makes my ears ring. The
point of doing mixes is to promote myself and share music that I think is
important. Everyone else does mixes. It’s to fit in with the community.
DARK CONFESSIONS ALBUM (WITH FILMY GHOST):
Do you
have plans of playing live in the future, as an artist or a DJ?
Because of my ear damage, I don’t have plans and don’t know
how I could make it work. I would like to try live-streaming my voice from
somewhere while someone else works the music in a club. I’ve also thought of
combining a sound-proof helmet, ear pugs and the kind of ear muffs that block
out gun fire. In that case, someone else would still have to control what the
audio sounds like. Usually a DJ is designing the sound experience while playing
music. They’re in the space and adjust the audio such as base levels for the
place they’re in at the moment. Sound proofing my head or livestreaming from
elsewhere would mean I can’t perform that role.
Which
electronic genres you will never be involved, which are the electronic genres
that you dislike?
I dislike guitars and anything related to rock music.
What is
your opinion of release music in the mainstream platforms: spotify, Apple,
itunes, etc?
I don’t have an opinion. I like Bandcamp because there is no
top-down control over what music gets exposure and what doesn’t (as far as I
now at least).
Are you
interested in release some physical material with some label in the future?
I want to get on the biggest and best labels that I can
without compromising anything. Honestly, I’m looking to get on techno labels
that are a little more recognized in the techno community. The main thing for
me is to be associated with other artists I like.
What are
the next Nvrs plans? What’s coming with your Project for 2019?
Right now, I’m doing a collaboration with Eastel from Take
Hit records in France, which is almost done. There are two other people I’m
panning to collaborate with in 2019, but nothing has started yet. I have this
Soundcloud page called Succcast. If it gets more of a following, I might make
it a serious podcast.
Any words
that you want to say to your listeners?
I don’t think I have anything to say. I’m a single lesbian.
Maybe that.
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