Residents Interview - Page 3

Let's mention the new radio show beginning 9/3.

After 30 years of near radio silence, a new weekly 2 hour program exclusively dedicated to The Residents premiered on Tues, Sept 3. The station is the all digital subscriber based XM Radio. The program is called MEET THE RESIDENTS and airs every Tues nite from 7pm-9pm Pacific/10pm-12mid Eastern on the Special X Channel of XM Radio.

Let's mention the November Chicago show.

It's at the House of Blues on Tuesday, Nov 5 - that's about all I know.

What is philosophical relationship between music and nonmusical aspects of the Residents' art?

The philosphical relationship is that for them all creativity is the same thing - the product of life passing through humans struggling to deal with it all. While some people obviously have more inclination (I hate the word "talent") towards one area or another, the only thing that's really important is following the creative urge.

For The Residents there has been more opportunity to do music than anything else - mainly because they've always had their own studio, so this resource was always available to them. But, for anyone who has seen their videos, live performances or CD-Roms, it's obvious that the visuals are just as important as the music.

Once again this is one of the reasons they are so excited about DVD. For The Residents, many of their projects, Eskimo and God in 3 Persons especially, have visual components that have never been realized. They just completed a surround DVD of Eskimo that does add a strong visual narrative for the first time - it only took them a little over 20 years to complete it.

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