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Julia Kent Biography

Julia Kent is a Canadian, New York City-based, Vancouver, British Columbia-born, cellist and composer. She has performed as a member of Rasputina and with Antony and the Johnsons.

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Learning how to record has been super empowering for me, because I spent so many years going into the studio and watching other people do it. I guess a lot of musicians have gone through this because now recording is really available for everybody.

Empowering, Learning, Musicians, People, Spent, Years

I'm really not working in a environment that's sonically pristine. It's not a conventional studio, obviously; it's a bit ramshackle.

Environment, Pristine, Sonically, Studios

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

Anxious, Cello, Introducing, Sound, Sounds

I love traveling and I love seeing new places and meeting new people, but at the same time, it takes a certain amount of emotional strength to gel with that, at least for me.

Certain, Emotional, People, Time, Traveling

I find when I'm touring or when I'm traveling, I just enter this other world kind of. It's much easier for me to be creative and be unselfconscious about creating when I'm home.

Creating, Creative, Home, Other Worlds

I have totally like an urbanite relationship to nature. I mean I'm not someone who hikes.

Mean, Nature, Relationship, Totally, Urbanite

Sometimes when I'm traveling, I feel a little bit dislocated, especially the transitions you make when you're traveling - you go to a different city every day.

Cities, City, Day, Different, Dislocated, Transition

I've been making the recordings for a long time, and I have tons and tons of them. I'm like a digital hoarder or something - everything is on like hard drives and whatever.

Digital, Drives, Long, Long Time

I find that I'm always struggling with the noise of the city. When I get a good take, there will be a horn or a siren or something. So it makes me very conscious of outside sounds, which in a way maybe led me to incorporate the field recordings.

Cities, Good, Siren, Sound, Struggle, Struggling

I feel like these sounds are the ultimate kind of free sounds, the ultimate public domain sounds. And I feel like people put them in completely different contexts, and they mean something different to everybody.

Different, Mean, People, Sound, Sounds, Ultimate

I feel as though I can get an end result that works for me, but as far as recording techniques, I don't feel that confident in my abilities.

Ends, Recording, Result, Results, Technique, Works

I think it's really different for me whether I'm touring as part of a larger group or if I'm touring on my own. It's a completely different experience, because when I tour on my own, it's really just me by myself, and I make nice relationships with people.

Different, Different Experiences, Group, Nice, Part, Thinking

It's just a spare room in my apartment. It's very cluttered and not particularly aesthetically inspiring, and it's very un-noise-proof.

Noise, Particularly, Proof, Room, Rooms, Spare

People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.

Beautifully, Cello, Make, People, Sometimes

I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.

Feels, Like, Natural, Power, Trampling, World

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