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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Elina Willener and Kieran Mortimer-Jones of Carson

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The Obelisk Questionnaire is a series of open questions intended to give the answerer an opportunity to explore these ideas and stories from their life as deeply as they choose. Answers can be short or long, and that reveals something in itself, but the most important factor is honesty.

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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Elina Willener and Kieran Mortimer-Jones of Carson

How do you define what you do and how did you come to do it?

Kieran Mortimer-Jones: I attempt to recreate feelings and emotions musically and deliver them in such a way that the same emotions are felt within the listener.

Elina Willener: I play rock music and I think I got that from my father. He makes music himself and to him I owe my love for guitar music.

Describe your first musical memory.

Kieran: I remember being kicked out of the recorder group lessons in primary school because I was playing all the songs way too fast. That’s when it was suggested to me that I learn the clarinet, as it was a much more challenging instrument to play.

Elina: At home in our living room listening to Mani Matter (one of the greatest Swiss singer-songwriters, who unfortunately died much too early). I have always loved his music, although at that time I did not understand the lyricism and great meaning of his lyrics, of course.

Describe your best musical memory to date.

Kieran: I remember one Christmas when I was about 14 and my father bought me my first electric guitar and amp. That was an amazing feeling, opening those boxes, holding it my hands and making a lot of noise. Being able to recreate the sounds and riffs of the bands I was listening to was mind blowing. I guess realizing that it wasn’t some magic trick, and that I could learn to do it too.

Elina: There are too many to name just one, but every time on stage with Carson is a highlight for me.

When was a time when a firmly held belief was tested?

Kieran: That day is yet to come.

Elina: I also have nothing to say about this yet.

Where do you feel artistic progression leads?

Kieran: I feel it leads to wherever you want it to take you. You can progress artistically but still feel you haven’t gone anywhere. You can RE-gress and someone else might say you have developed. Art is always subjective as the consumer is ever changing, you never have the same audience twice and one man’s rubbish is another man’s gold.

Elina: Any creative progression is about discovering something new within ourselves and taking that something out into the world so that others can experience and enjoy it.

How do you define success?

Kieran: I would define success by being able to support myself and my family with income generated by my art. Simply because it allows you to do what you love, everyday.

But on a deeper level, I think success would be finally finding happiness and peace within myself. The search for contentment is long and tiring.

Elina: To be able to do what I love to do, to make my passion my profession, or at least partially.

What is something you have seen that you wish you hadn’t?

Kieran: The development and consummation of the ‘Smart Phone’. No one has any peace anymore. No one looks out the window at the real world. No one can bear five minutes of listening to their own thoughts. Distract yourself from yourself with consumerism.

Elina: The ignorance that certain people still have when it comes to our environment. That makes me sad.

Describe something you haven’t created yet that you’d like to create.

Kieran: I would like to build my own house. From start to finish, like my old man did. Something my family and I could be proud of.

Elina: Living from music.

What do you believe is the most essential function of art?

Kieran: Enjoyment. To distract the audience from themselves and their regretful lives. To stir emotion in people in a way that suprises them. To connect with people.

Elina: Broadening of horizons, innovation and provocation.

Something non-musical that you’re looking forward to?

Kieran: The demise and inevitable end of humanity.

Elina: Good answer, I can only agree with that.

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