The Obelisk Questionnaire: Ana Muhi and Sven “Missu” Missulis of MIGHT
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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Ana Muhi and Sven “Missu” Missulis of MIGHT
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How do you define what you do and how did you come to do it?
Ana: I decided to allow myself the luxury of doing what I love. Sounds cheesy, but that’s the way it is. Making music is a self-determined space for me. It’s a way to give kind of shape to my woolly thoughts. And as a matter of course I wanted to be loud.
Sven: My father had a guitar on which he played maybe once in every six months or less and as a kid I liked sitting beside him and listen. Later, when I was 14 years old, some of my friends had instruments and we started a punk band. That was the time when I began to play the guitar. 2,5 months later we had our first concert. You can imagine how it sounded. Luckily it was filmed. The guy who filmed that concert back in 1991 uploaded it on YouTube a few years ago.
Describe your first musical memory.
Sven: One of my first musical memory as a small child is sitting with our little dog Snoopy on the backseat of my mom’s Citroen 2CV listening to a best of ABBA tape while she was driving us three somewhere. We have done that very often and in my memories it is always summer.
Ana: I was hanging around with my little sister on a lazy Sunday afternoon. We had some of the best pancakes ever and listened to a radio show. I recorded our beloved songs on audio tapes and we sang perfectly out of tune in kiddy fantasy English.
Describe your best musical memory to date.
Ana: One of the first concerts from our former band was in a very close and airless underground vault. A wonderful location, but I must have fainted for a few seconds, after my scream split the air. It was a sort of sweaty full-body-mission, I don’t want to miss.
Sven: There are so many good musical memories in my life. It is not easy to chose just one. At the age of 11 or 12 I combed through my parents vinyl collection and discovered “The Wall” by Pink Floyd. That was a massive experience.
When was a time when a firmly held belief was tested?
Sven: When I realized that I am really getting old.
Ana: It’s hard to keep hope that stupid egomaniacs will not rule the world. The abuse of power from megalomaniac narcissists makes me sick.
Where do you feel artistic progression leads?
Ana: Artistic progression leads to confrontation with yourself in your surrounding world. It’s a naked encounter with truth. Sometimes painful, but always the opposite from death.
Sven: I would say it is a constant changing, a little less here, a little more there, something new, another thing is through. I think it does not lead anywhere, it just changes the direction sometimes.
How do you define success?
Sven: Being satisfied.
Ana: To leave the competition by your own choice, just to go ahead with yourself.
What is something you have seen that you wish you hadn’t?
Ana: Hate.
Sven: I’d thought about this question for a while and of course there are things I wish I have not seen, like destroyed nature f.e., but if I think in this direction there is nothing that I wish I have not seen, because even if I haven’t seen it, it would happen. So it is important to see what is happening to act the right way.
Describe something you haven’t created yet that you’d like to create.
Sven: The third MIGHT album.
Ana: Maybe I’ll have the patience to write something longer than a song once. When I was a child I loved to write theatre plays and the first pages for novels. But I always ripped it to pieces and I still do so today.
What do you believe is the most essential function of art?
Ana: Art should work up the courage we lose in our daily routines.
Sven: Art connects people around the world.
Something non-musical that you’re looking forward to?
Sven: Spring and summer.
Ana: I’m looking forward to embrace my 80-year-old dad and my beloved old life at all. Nothing is to take for granted and I’m thankful to join the game for a while.
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