Concon aka Victor schlesinger , is a producer, multi-instrumentalist and creative. His work addresses musical creation in an eclectic way, with a marked technological-humanist and existentialist vision, which is evident in his sound, his lyrics and also in the work he develops as an organization manager, which he has described as an “extension of his message”, where he has devised and co-founded various artistic and technological development initiatives where the recently formed digital cooperative of artists stands out, RONDA. Here he presents his latest release,Alterado”, the first preview of his LP “Estado” that will be released in October 2021.
In general, I spend much more time than I should be thinking about very impractical and unanswered questions such as what are we, what is this all about, etc … On the other hand, I consider myself a generalist rather than a music specialist. I spend my time rambling between instruments and genres, mixing and production, without ever becoming an expert in anything. After more than thirty years of floating between existential and sound dispersions, I managed to put them together in something fairly coherent and that is Concon. It is a juicer where I try to make contact with that part of me that I cannot identify but that I know is out there, trapped inside this bag of meat and bones, wondering how it got there and trying to remember where the exit was. of emergency.
Alterado is a song that was born at the end of July of last year, the first day I left my house after having spent several months locked up by the pandemic. I went to spend the night at Nicolas Colombres’s studio and that night we created the four bars of the track that are right in the middle of the song. Nico recorded the drums right there and we used my Blofeld for bass and some pads. Then what I did was “unpack” or “unwrap” that section and that became the complete piece. Later I invited Paulopulus to do drums in the Drum & Bass section. Arthur Zegers did the master and Bernadette Rojas made the cover.
After that experience I went into an almost manic process where I really don’t remember exactly when I decided that all of this was going to turn into an album.
The creative process was finally opened when I came across the classic self-boycott of overproduction, and I decided to take it up as a creative tool. What I did was work on naive, straightforward, and rather cliché songs and narratives (I love cliché as a device), and bring all those ideas to fruition. After that I took those songs and dismembered and remixed them, taking them to a slightly deeper state of abstraction, thus opening up more space for surprise and sensory environments and landscapes.
At some point in the process I decided that the album was going to be called “Estado” and that I was going to try to talk about this existential crisis and collective transmutation that humanity is currently experiencing, and that I was going to try to narrate how individual states of consciousness interacts with the state/nation that ends up exercising its authority over the same social group that is manifesting that state / nation in the first place, and that I was going to do all this trying to narrate my own states of consciousness in each song.
In any case, what ended up coming out is something totally different from that pseudo-intellectual and pretentious intention. And although at times my music can become mental, personally I believe that the heart always makes itself felt. On the other hand, I am not the one to say what this album is about. Along the way I explored, discovered new sounds and production techniques that make me very happy and made a series of songs about all things honest and with my open heart, which represent my present. I cannot assess how important this whole process has been for me. If part of all that can travel and touch someone else’s life out there, for me this work will be perfect.
Every song I have composed has changed my life in some significant way, because the things I discover and the conclusions I came to during the creative process guide and heal me. Music is the common thread of my life. That’s why I don’t think I’ll be able to stop creating until the day I die. Nor do I know if that is a virtue or a condemnation.
A few months ago I sold almost all my machines, I bought the Akai Force and I came to live in Vilches Alto, which is a small mountain town in the Maule region. I am trying to get some perspective as I continue to advance my projects. Here I am also preparing the live act of this album and I hope to be able to present it in the new world, towards the end of this year.
