Glasser: the music was all made very quietly
Glasser is (sometimes) one-woman act Cameron Mesirow, who recently played the CMJ Stereogum party backed by Brooklyn duo Tanlines. I didn’t catch the show, but from what I’ve read, her on-stage presence has received mixed reviews.
In an April interview with the L.A. Record for the release of her 2009 EP Apply, Mesirow discussed recording all the tracks on her Mac.
LA Record: “How are you transposing this stuff from GarageBand to human beings?”
CM: “It’s pretty simple. You just go track-by-track and musician-by-musician. The parts are so simple—there just happens to be 30,000 of them per song. It’s a really simple set-up. 30,000 people. We might need an extra generator. No, I think that it’s ironic that the music was all made very quietly in headphones but I think it translates better to a giant place.”
Personally, I find the songs to be pretty solid, and I’d like to think that Glasser’s sublime and primitive tone would be well-complemented by her on-stage aesthetic, usually adorned in masks and capes, making for a powerful performance. I’ll have to catch her live, though, to see if these songs hold up. Meanwhile, here are two of my favorites, title track “Apply” and the Delorean Remix of “Glad”: