Mount Eerie
I’ve discovered that I’m a big fan of time-based and location sensitive creative works. The idea of ouside restraints and the potential for psychological (and physical) isolation elevates the senses to extreme levels. The following is an excerpt from an article about musician Phil Elverum and this residency / production at the Portland White Stag building.
“Elverum, the Anacortes, Washington-based songwriter who records a kind of haunted folk music as Mount Eerie, is in Portland for the second day of his week-long residency at White Stag to write and record a piece of music about the building…”
“Even when I’m on tour, I’m always trying to recreate this feeling [of my home],” he says. In fact, in 2004, Elverum shed his previous moniker, the Microphones, for Mount Eerie (adding an extra “e” to both his last name, formerly Elvrum, and the mountain’s in the process). “I realized I was writing so much about a specific place that I finally said, ‘Fuck it—I’ll just embody it.’”
Read the full article @ Portland Mercury – Grave Architecture : Mount Eerie Writes the Myth of White Stag
