{"id":1264,"date":"2009-04-15T08:02:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T16:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2012-02-01T18:32:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T02:32:13","slug":"q-a-scott-goodwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"Q&A – Scott Goodwin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1: Analog or Digital?<\/p>\n

Both. <\/p>\n

2: What time did you wake up today?<\/p>\n

5AM, 6:30AM, 7AM, 7:30 AM, and 8:20AM<\/p>\n

3: Last thing you read?<\/p>\n

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built by Stewart Brand and NYTIMES.com<\/p>\n

4: Whats your first memory?<\/p>\n

My brother’s baptism. Though I was about three years old at the time, so I actually think I am remembering that I was previously able to remember that instance. A memory of a memory.<\/p>\n

5: Tea Or Coffee?<\/p>\n

Both, hopefully not on the same day. I worked for a year at a tea company and received a terrific education in tea and tea culture, but I live in a coffee town. Its practically on tap.<\/p>\n

6: Last thing you cooked?<\/p>\n

Egg sandwich with a really phony approximation of a harrissa-mayonaise.<\/p>\n

7: If you’re reborn who or what would you like to be?<\/p>\n

I don’t know. I don’t really think that will happen.<\/p>\n

8: What inspires you?<\/p>\n

Winter: The walking loop in Overlook Park. Summer: Beer.<\/p>\n

Also, my friends.<\/p>\n

9: Last record you played?<\/p>\n

My turntable indicates that it was The Yellow Princess by John Fahey. I am generally not a fan of solo guitar music and that whole mystique, but this album really gets to me. It was absolutely the defining piece of music in my life when I moved to Portland, Oregon about three years ago. So to me the album’s sonorous chords ring out and a tempest of memories arises. I remember reading The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Thinking of Self-Speaking, and Space is the Place and then spending hours going through the copious collections of the Multnomah County library system. I was gazing covetously at the Saturn records up on the walls of Mississippi Records and drinking notoriously strong drip coffee all day for a dollar and tip at the Fresh Pot. I had no job and no permanent housing, but I had a wide-eyed Platonic sort of wonderment in my newly adopted city. It is an attitude and a time I find somewhat quaint now but still hold dear.<\/p>\n

10: Favorite piece of musical equipment?<\/p>\n

To me a well-placed microphone in a room with a good amount of amplification and some sort of EQ is enough. I could listen to “room feedback” for hours, but haven’t found it particularly useful for making music for a while.<\/p>\n

I suspect my most honest answer would be Ableton Live LE 7 or my new MacBook, though both may be soon eclipsed by the DIY modular synthesizer I’m building.<\/p>\n

11: Last movie you saw?<\/p>\n

The Godfather Part I. The scenes in and leading up to the Michael Corleone’s reprisal murders in Louis’ restaurant were remarkably tense and physically affecting even after seeing it a number of times previously.<\/p>\n

12: Who do you love?<\/p>\n

My family first and foremost. Though that may be a result of a recent deep viewing of The Godfather. I have to shout-out my incredibly brilliant and beautiful group of friends in PDX and nation-wide, too.<\/p>\n

13: Do you have any pets?<\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n

14: Are you useful?<\/p>\n

I really don’t think so. Unless you need a grant proposal for a music-related non-profit organization. Though when I was out of work last Fall the whole economy did go to shit.<\/p>\n

15: Biggest fear?<\/p>\n

That I’m wasting time. That I’m playing it too safe. On some level, they’re both the same basic fear, to me.<\/p>\n

16: What do you value the most?<\/p>\n

Thought and the time to think it.<\/p>\n

17: Famous last words?<\/p>\n

Nope.<\/p>\n

Scott Goodwin is 1\/3 of Bonus<\/a> and more recently, has been rocking sine waves solo<\/a>. A Bay Area native, Scott currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Apart from the recently released, amazing “Off Light” disc, we’re really looking forward to what he does next!<\/p>\n

Fun fact: Scott is roommates with White Rainbow<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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