Scooter Maute Perspective on Asshole Castle
My name is Scooter Maute, and I'm doing this project to give myself freedom in creativity. I was in a band prior to this project that had some success but it came with a lot of pain and financial hardships (absolute poverty/homelessness). Now i create music in my home whenever i want with no cost. I do everything completely by myself and it's become so fun and rewarding. I'm just happy to create and share the art.
My earliest memory of listening to music is when i was a toddler running around the house while my mother played Keith Green tapes over her radio. I remember the sharpness of the piano and vocal melodies giving me so much happy energy.
I currently really enjoy writing about depression and anxiety in an extremely dramatic/humorous way. I think it's good to find a way to laugh about the darkness. Religious trauma seems to be an aggressively recurring theme too. Sometimes I'll throw a little political frustration in there for extra flavor.
The song is essentially a summary of the last year of my life and the feelings that come with it. The fruits of the happening, if you will.
I don't think I have a choice to not be an artist.. I know that might sound cliche, but i never made a choice, it was just always there for better or worse.
5 minutes. It's really not hard to write fast if you just shut your brain off with an acoustic guitar. Usually it give a better or more pure product too.
Toilet. I hang a mic down into the bowl of my toilet and manipulate the sound of it flushing to make the entrance into choruses hit more
Production doesn't make a great song. If a song is great it can be stripped of all production and still be great.
I don't really have training or proper knowledge for any aspect of creating music. I'm basically flying blind.
60-100 ballpark
It basically happens all at once. I write, record and mix at the same time. I start with one progression or melody and quickly build from there. Usually the songs are completed in a days work.
My goal as an artist is essentially to make art.
I'm more of a podcast guy.. if i want music i'll go outside.
