Proof that collaborative artistic relationships always sour and fracture: Miranda Pharis’s Airport project has pulled a reverse-Simply Red. Recruiting members Stephen Mayer in the visual sector and Olivia Sullivan as an additional musician and vocalist, Airport is now a corporation and promise a poppier output: “as poppy as we can do.” From Miranda Pharis:
I started Airport alone but Olivia has been my partner the whole time and is on almost every release; bits of her voice, little melodies of her on piano, weird stuff like holding the mic on a Casio SK-1 up to me playing fiddle to record a sample. The song ‘The Shoe Girl’ is the first one completely written by both of us and on ‘The Miracle Of Trauma’ she is helping me write songs/melodies and pretty much all of the lyrics. We become one organism when we are playing together, just as I feel like I share thoughts on the visual sector with Stephen. He literally thinks of the same conceptual frameworks as I do while creating a work and just makes the images and video from our conjoined mind. It really is strange, we’re about to do our first video together.
For now, Miranda Pharis remains a solo act with an upcoming release, tentatively titled The Miracle of Trauma, which will follow the still-pretty-dang recent album release Lilliputian (relive that phenomenon below). But now, there’s also hope that you and even your most slovenly of apartment-mates might one day make beautiful music together.
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