1) How did you become part of the underground scene and how long have you been in the music industry?

I have been studying art and music since I can remember. My earliest inclinations were towards the arts. However I did not become a professional performer or promoter of the arts until I was in high school. I just recently graduated college with a degree in music composition.

2) What do you do for a living and what do you do in your spare time?

I make 1/2 of my living from my own personal artwork and music and 1/2 from various jobs I pick up ranging from Dance club management to IT related computer jobs. Hopefully I will be able to support myself, fully, from my own personal art within several more years.

3) What do you hate the most the most and what is your passion?

I hate capitalism and the competitive environment it fosters within people whom would otherwise be helping eachother out. Art of all forms is my greatest passion, and that envelopes the vast majority of my free time.

4) What is in your CD player at the moment?

Infected Mushroom "the gathering"

5) List your top 5 bands of all times and favourite songs.

Favorite songs would be impossible to choose, as it depends too much on what emotion I'm wanting to relate to at the time, but some of my five all time favorite bands/composers would be Frontline Assembly (Anything by Leeb or Fulber, really), Loreena Mckennitt, Download, Danny Elfman, and Infected mushroom.

6) What is your opinion on the politics in the underground scene, if any?

I believe the future looks bright. I believe the internet is giving artists more and more independence from the record labels and middle men that have controlled, stifled, and censored their art in the past.

7) Favourite movie?

Any dark and artistic experimental animation. I'm especially fond of well done stop motion animation...especially anything by "The brothers Quay". I'm very fond of Eastern european puppetry and animation techniques.

8) How would you describe yourself?

Introspective, modest, and passionate.

9) What is band life like?

It can be incredibly stressful. Traveling all day to get somewhere, setting up a temporary studio that I just dissassembled from my home or last gig, and then at the end of the night having to dissassemble the studio again and reload all the gear and visuals into the cars and barely get any sleep (Its like moving 4 times in one day)......but in the end....I love it. I love performing in front of a crowd and feeding off eachothers emotions. It creates a sort of feedback loop. I describe my emotions with the art I create... As thats happening live, people respond by dancing, yellling, etc, and the energy in the venue feeds back into me, and a beautiful symbiosis manifests itself. The situation is quite remarkable, really. Life is my muse.

10) What is your life philosophy?

I'll let you know, when I figure it out. heh.

Thank you for your time.

Kind regards

Morticia Devine