ALL ABOARD THE MOTHERSHIP
“I’ve always been a musician, but for a long time I played more acoustic, Americana-type material.” A surprising admission from Julie Kathryn, aka New York’s synth-pop star I Am Snow Angel, who’s been receiving plaudits for both her intense, emotive performances and her richly textured mixes. “I now produce my own projects and also work with a lot of other songwriters, and I love to collaborate with a lot of other artists, particularly women. I live and breathe music completely.”
Julie has now learned the art of production, and her way around the latest electronic performance tools so has her sights on playing live… with Live.
“I’m influenced by both the auditory and the visual”
“My tracks were coming out really well and I realised that I was going to have to perform them live. I didn’t really want to – I was terrified. So shortly thereafter, I thought about using Ableton Push for live performance, because I had to have a way to transfer these quite complex mixes onto the stage without it sounding all stripped down. I started working with [MusicTech’s contemporary production specialist] Erin Barra, who is just amazing. She lived in New York at the time, so we started hanging out and she’d tutor me one-on-one with Push for about a year. Erin taught me everything.”
Aside from the technicalities of Push, working with Erin made Julie realise that her gender was no barrier to learning more about
