Name: Fábio Seiki aka Acid Asian
Nationality: Brazilian-Japanese
Occupation: Producer
Current release: Acid Asian's The Night EP is out via KNTXT.

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When I listen to music, I see shapes, objects and colours. What happens in your body when you're listening? Do you listen with your eyes open or closed?

Depending on the track I'll have goosebumps or sometimes a track reminds me of a specific moment bringing me memories of it and even the smell of the moment itself, it’s crazy.

Eyes open or closed? Both … it depends of the occasion whether I just want to listen to music with eyes open or whether I want to focus and try to meditate with eyes closed.

Entering new worlds and escapism through music have always exerted a very strong pull on me. What do you think you are drawn to most when it comes to listening to and creating music?

The melody and the kick haha … It’s quite strange but I really like the kick and if I like the kick I’m probably gonna like the whole music.

Besides that I like tracks that are very minimalist but very captivating.

What were your very first steps in music like and how would you rate the gains made through experience?

In techno, my first steps started in 2020 when I decided to create this project, Acid Asian after I created a track for my friend to use at the Diesel stores. After this moment, my will to pursue a music career returned and I decided to listen to my gut.

But my first contact with music was in 2008 when I started to take up Taiko (Japanese percussion instrument). This helped me a lot to create a track from the arrangement part to the drum construction part.

According to scientific studies, we make our deepest and most incisive musical experiences between the ages of 13-16. What did music mean to you at that age and what’s changed since then?

I don’t  remember this phase so much. But what I can say is that when I was 15 I watched Tomorrowland’s video on Youtube for the very first time and after this video I wanted to learn how to play and how to become a DJ.

So, I can say that I achieved one of my biggest dreams … it’s crazy.

How would you describe your own relationship with your instrument, tools or equipment?

I have a lot to learn but I’m happy that I’m able to transform my ideas into music with the equipment I have available at the moment.

Where does the impulse to create something come from for you? What role do often-quoted sources of inspiration like dreams, other forms of art, personal relationships, politics etc play?

My impulse to create something comes from anxiety. I think I could find something to overcome it and at the same time it’s something that I love too.

My inspiration comes from movies, parties that I go or I just go to my studio, start to create something and then inspiration comes.  

Are you acting out parts of your personality in your music which you couldn't or wouldn't in your daily life? If so, which are these? What, would you say, are the key ideas behind your approach to music?

As I said before, I think I found a way to overcome my anxiety and express myself - which is making music.

I think the key ideas to create a track is always to be aware of the signs that your body gives to you and the studio itself as well.

If music is a language, what can we communicate with it? How do you deal with misunderstandings?

Music is a language that has the ability to touch our souls and give us unique moments. So I can say that music is a language of feelings.

About misunderstandings - I think I try to analyze the whole situation and what I could do next time to avoid it.

Making music, in the beginning, is often playful and about discovery. How do you retain a sense of playfulness and how do you still draw surprises from tools, approaches and musical forms you may be very familiar with?  

I think the moment you start putting pressure on yourself saying you need to make good music, you lose the sense of playfulness.

Definitely there will be some tracks that are not going to be good and that’s okay. You’ll always learn something from this track anyway.

We need to enjoy the process and the ride, you know? I’ve been learning to see in that way and it helped me a lot.

Sound, song, and rhythm are all around us, from animal noises to the waves of the ocean. What, if any, are some of the most moving experiences you've had with these non-human-made sounds? In how far would you describe them as “musical”?

I like the sound of the wind ... mainly when you are alone in an open place.

But the sound of silence is really good as well. I had this experience when I took a meditation course called Vipassana. In this course I needed to stay 10 days without being able to speak, no cellphones and just meditating for 10 days. It was tough but it was really good for me.

I think if a sound touches your soul or if you have any feeling after listening to something, I think I would describe this as “musical."

There seems to be an increasing trend to capture music in algorithms, and data. But already at the time of Plato, arithmetic, geometry, and music were considered closely connected. How do you see that connection yourself? What aspects of music do you feel can be captured through numbers, and which can not?

Music is math with emotions haha. Streams and downloads you can capture through numbers.

At the same time, I think we can’t just focus on that aspect and forget that music is ultimately art. And, for me, you can’t capture art with this kinda of thing.

How does the way you make music reflect the way you live your life? Can we learn lessons about life by understanding music on a deeper level?

For sure, I think the way you produce reflects the way you’re feeling at the moment, you know? As I said before, music is emotion so it’s all connected.

And I’ve been learning a lot by working with music. Mainly listening and respecting what my body wants to tell me.