Name: Sergio Cortés aka Aeondelit
Occupation: Producer
Nationality: Colombian
Recent Release: The sophomore Aeondelit full-length Vestigios is out October 14th 2022 via Unguarded.
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When did you start writing/producing/playing music and what or who were your early passions and influences? What was it about music and/or sound that drew you to it?

As a child I spent a lot of time watching anime series and playing video games. I think that left a mark on me, more than having an approach with any instrument in particular.

I like to think that all these experiences of my childhood accumulated in my subconscious and then surfaced later when I started experimenting with a computer.

When I listen to music, I see shapes, objects and colours. What happens in your body when you're listening and how does it influence your approach to creativity?

I also think in visual terms when listening music and vice versa.

This creative exercise is very useful when I tried to access to these imagined spaces that make me feel things that words can’t communicate.

How would you describe your development as an artist in terms of interests and challenges, searching for a personal voice, as well as breakthroughs?

A key breakthrough in my development as an artist was studying music theory at an academy, because before that I was doing everything instinctively. I mean, most interesting results come when my instincts take over, but objective thinking is also necessary.

On "searching for a personal voice", I find that idea so abstract. I see many artists doing incredible and unique things but at the same time my brain connects their work with others, it's like we are all interconnected in some way and the result is a mosaic of expressions.

Tell me a bit about your sense of identity and how it influences both your preferences as a listener and your creativity as an artist, please.

That's an interesting question because I can connect it with the concept behind my new album.

Everyone has the ability to unlock their own inner world, just have to get the right key to do it. For me, that's the secret to creating your own identity, although sometimes this can be painful as you have to get in touch with your vulnerabilities too.

But there is a light at the end of the tunnel, in the most spiritual sense possible. Then you can use the metaphors and archetypes that best serve you to transmute whatever you have created within yourself.

In that sense, I enjoy all the music that evokes different and complex states of feeling.

What, would you say, are the key ideas behind your approach to music and art?

I find myself more and more fascinated with many philosophical ideas - consciousness, beliefs, metamodernism, reality.

Also, being surrounded by nature here in my hometown somehow makes me feel this need to go deeper into these concepts.

How would you describe your views on topics like originality and innovation versus perfection and timelessness in music? Are you interested in a “music of the future” or “continuing a tradition”?

On one hand, perhaps it is easier to appreciate something from the past, already legitimized by time, than something very new and different.

On the other hand, as I see it, the experimental approach in any creative aspect is fundamental for art in general to continue to develop.

So I think both are necessary and complement each other.

Over the course of your development, what have been your most important instruments and tools - and what are the most promising strategies for working with them?

Regarding the use of tools, over the years I have seen my development as an artist more as a subtractive process. I made a really conscious decision with the music I make to only use a laptop, that's just because I find more easier to convey certain ideas and emotions this way.

My strategies are to take sounds of instruments or field recording samples and cutting them into small pieces, then experiment by changing their pitch or looping them to get something totally new and synthetic.

This is a quite vulgar usage of sound I think but it works for me.

Take us through a day in your life, from a possible morning routine through to your work, please.

Generally, my day begins making different types of graphic pieces for the agency I work for.

My evenings and other free days are dedicated to being out in nature, reading, or simply doing nothing more than rest and spend time with my girlfriend, friends and my dogs.

Could you describe your creative process on the basis of a piece, live performance or album that's particularly dear to you, please?

I've always been interested in storytelling in music, and also, my creative process has always been influenced by my environment.

So, for example, on my last album, I tried to connect the narrative of a journey of transformation with two opposite elements in nature that are water and fire (also represented in the zodiacal signs from my sun and rising), then convey this amalgamation of ideas using literally sounds of those elements into the arrangement of the songs as a textures.

Listening can be both a solitary and a communal activity. Likewise, creating music can be private or collaborative. Can you talk about your preferences in this regard and how these constellations influence creative results?

I'm fascinated with how deep you can swim into the vast sea of the unconsciousness through the introspective and solitary creative exercise of making music. But on the other hand, it's pretty interesting to see how collaborative projects can take you to places that you have never been before.

I had the fortune to work with many talented people who have different perspectives and see things that you don't. It's always a constant feedback, it's like having a non-verbal conversation.

How do your work and your creativity relate to the world and what is the role of music in society?

I think music and art in general have the potential to communicate in a more powerful way the struggles of our society and our own minds. It can be beautiful, timeless and poetic, but also painful and aggressive, it has the power to transmute what is in our hearts and be a way of dealing with it.

I think that is the role of music and art in society and I hope my work can become something like that to someone out there.

Art can be a way of dealing with the big topics in life: Life, loss, death, love, pain, and many more. In which way and on which occasions has music – both your own or that of others - contributed to your understanding of these questions?

Making music has been an extraordinary catalyst for me, and again, my last album is proof of that.

I think it's my most personal work to date and also, I perceive it as a closure of a healing journey through love and confrontation.

How do you see the connection between music and science and what can these two fields reveal about each other?  

That's a very interesting question. I see the connection in their symbiotic relationship, where scientific knowledge and musical making have become more and more accessible to the people.

Both impulse each other and open new frontiers in their respective fields.

Creativity can reach many different corners of our lives. Do you feel as though writing or performing a piece of music is inherently different from something like making a great cup of coffee? What do you express through music that you couldn't or wouldn't in more 'mundane' tasks?

As I mentioned, music has and incredibly potential to express deep feelings and concepts, but also can be mundane and without any deeper purpose other than expressing whatever thing you want, and that's ok too.

So, in that sense making a cup of coffee can become also a creative thing if you want. There are no limits.

Music is vibration in the air, captured by our ear drums. From your perspective as a creator and listener, do you have an explanation how it able to transmit such diverse and potentially deep messages?

That's a great observation, as phenomenon, sound is something very physical for our senses. Maybe that's the reason why the reaction it creates in us is so immediate.