Red Bull Music celebrated 15 Years of Bunker one of NYC’s most well-known and loved parties. We catch up with DJ Antenes, who is also a producer and synthmaker and was in town at Tao Terraces for the party.
This is your first time in India, what are you expecting?
I am really looking forward to the shows and workshops as a way to have a deepened exchange of ideas with people. I am planning to stay around and hopefully talk and mess around with sounds with students and faculty at the True School of Music. I checked out the curriculum and saw for example vocal courses in Raag / Raga, it would be extremely cool to experience not only the form and rhythm from real pros, but also to learn about the cultural significance of it. I’m really looking forward to hearing the DJs we will be sharing the bill with and learning a lot. Going in with open eyes and ears.
Tell us about your second EP on Silent Season. What were the inspirations behind it?
My latest release on Silent Season was more introspective and experimental than functional because of the subject matter that inspired it, unique to the time.
What are your plans for 2018?
I have a release coming up on The Bunker. It’s all done and should be out in the early Spring! I will wait until a little closer to go into too much detail but I can say that there is a special connection that brought it about, and that is the fact that I converted an old telephone switchboard that used to live at the previous Bunker New York loft into my first re-purposed instrument (one of those funny and classic New York coincidences – actually finding someone who owns a switchboard at the onset of this idea!).