Mania Peace
Not bound by one particular style (and not completely conforming to any of them), Mania Peace is Ambient, Goth, Experimental, Industrial, DarkWave, and Electro/Dance genres with a sometimes Classical, ShoeGaze,and/or Meditative side.
Mania Peace is the solo project of Duchess of Hurl, and all music is composed, recorded, edited, and mixed by me on a KORG M3 synthesizer/workstation.
My music is driven by my own duality - the darkness within versus my spiritual nature; and also, the darkness of life and the world versus the spiritual nature of the universe. It just depends on which one i feel like expressing at the time i am composing.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
I simply decided i wanted to compose some music and put it out there. I want to have a part in exploring, developing, and pushing the industrial genre(s). I also am interested in developing elements of the classical form(s) and instrumentation into a similar expression for our time period. An updating of that. I don't completely know what that sounds like yet, but i'm already hearing some of it in my head. I just need to get it down on some tracks.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
No, i have never performed live.
Your musical influences
Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Psyclon Nine, Type O Negative, Sisters of Mercy, Opeth, Project Pitchfork, Phillip Glass, Brian Eno, Dream Theatre, and many, many others. In the New Age genre, particularly i'd cite Constance Demby. Also have been heavily influenced by Classical composers, especially Brahms and Beethoven. Finally, i've been inspired by my many MySpace friends who have solo projects, such as Matt Crane, The Great Randola, Black Sheep Screaming, evol, and Somnium7.
What equipment do you use?
KORG M-3 Synth/Workstation and Audio-Technica ATH-M50 cans. That's it.
Anything else?
Thank you for stopping in and listening.
