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‘Nuni-land.’ – Dance music gets a hot new face.

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Nuni: Yeah, considering we just wrapped the album last week.

SCV: What influenced your genre- dance music?

Nuni. I think the aura of the night club. The idea of people getting down and dirty. I find that very appealing.

SCV; When it came round to putting your album together, how did that physically happen?

Nuni. I went away to Cuba and with some instrumentals I was given I began the task of writing. After I came up with the lyrics, which I’d been siting on for a while I came back to the recording studio.

SCV: And within 5 days you were able to come out with a 5 trek EPK?

Nuni: Yeah, we just banged it out. It kind of surprised me, I thought I’d be there for a month, but I wouldn’t be lying if I told you those were the longest 5 days in my life.

SCV: How much creative license we’re you given?

Nuni: Quite a bit. In the end the production process was able to bring structure to all of these crazy little ideas that were floating in my mind.

SCV: How have you managed to both record an album and be a drama student?

Nuni: I’ve always wanted to do more than just theater, and for a while I didn’t know exactly what that outlet would be. So there I was one day just laying in bed trying to fall asleep when I literally popped out of bed and thought, “I have to start doing music.” So I got out my laptop and started writing my first songs. The more I wrote the more courage I got to continue and somehow this all lead to me ending up in NYC one year later recording my first EPK.

(He once again pauses to consider what he has said, as if suddenly caught off guard by his own accomplishments before suddenly now reaching over for a new cigarette).

SCV: How do you think you your program as an actor at Carnegie Melon  has contributed to the development of your music?

Nuni: I went to theatre school to be able to have a performance/creative outlet, and for me that’s music. When I visualize things, I think of the music that goes along with it. If we’re talking about a play, it’s not just the character, I think about the music in the play. Music just speaks to me more than other things.

SCV: What was the first thing you tried to do with music technology?

Nuni: Well I got out the synth. (Laughs.) Meaning I clicked on GarageBand and looked at the synth page and picked out a synth. And I just used the keyboard on the computer to play around melodically with really simple patterns. I was obsessed with that for a while. Then I discovered, “Oh, you can also record yourself! You can affect the vocals!” Then my auditory vision, if that makes any sense, started to come alive. I was able to realize the sounds I wanted to produce.

SCV: What sounds?

Nuni: Something that has a really danceable, dank beat. Something that people haven’t necessarily heard but that they can recognize. I don’t want it to be too abstract. All the music that comes to me is

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