RS: What was in your mind when you wrote Sunshine?
Jacinta: Sunshine, that's an interesting one. When I came to
America, the reason I stayed in Austin was I started working on a film
project where I was acting with a character who was a crazy musician -
along the same guidelines as myself - rocking in to a town and trying
to do something with my music. She was really crazy, just a little
bit more crazy than I am, and Sunshine was a song that I wrote for
this character in the movie. She was a really big drug user and it
was really about her finally seeing where she was at in her life and
realizing this was not a good place to be. I have to get in to my
sunshine. It's just as true in my mantra, I encourage everyone to
find that real truth to your essence that they have inside them that's
so uniquely theirs. I believe that when you do what we are supposed
to be doing here on the planet and we resonate with that, then we are
so on the right track. If we were all able to do that, wouldn't it
just be a harmonious beautiful place, the planet. So that's very much
Sunshine. The versus are quite dark, it's just meaning that
everything that you do has an impact, and this girl was just out of
control and she wasn't really leaving good impact with how she was
living. The film was a very dark comedy and it wasn't finished
unfortunately. But that's what Sunshine was about and I'm going to
get in to the sunshine.
RS: You just used a really great word, 'mantra,' and it made me
think of a quote you have on your website which I absolutely love,
'technical music for an emotional world.'
Jacinta: Sweet, I'm glad. You can only operate and try to resonate
with other people. The way I try to do that is to make a connection
which is so important is from emotional things. We are emotional
individuals and music is something that we turn to to find our
emotions. Whether it's sadness or 'let's go party' feelings or if
it's just to keep you chilled out while you're working at the
computer, whatever it might be. It's just to help you focus. Music
is such an emotional thing and finding those states that you want to
be in and to be feeling as fabulous as you possibly can is quite
emotional. I do talk in a technical mode, because I like twiddling the
knobs and it's something that I'd love to spend more time doing and
getting better at that whole technical aspect of things.
RS: Well you're basically a Jill of all trades with the acting,
the singing, the songwriting, and then Chunky, it's your own record
label?
Jacinta: I found that about ten year ago that when you write and
record your own music- it's like, 'well who's your label?' I didn't
have a label, so it just made sense to start my own- like doing my own
accounts and taxes. Chunky Music was named because I'm very much
audio-based, making chunks of audio and just mucking around with them
until they fit together and feel like they were doing something. I'm
very much more electronic and coming in more from a rock angle and
embraced sampling and enjoyed making all of these chunks and making
them stick together in a way that was pleasurable to the ear.
RS: So when you were playing on the computer, do you use
ProTools or Logic?
Jacinta: I use Logic now. When first got started I was like on a
little 486 running sessions in Cubase. It's been nice to see
everything coming together and Logic is really nice. I think I'm
going to start having a look at Live because it seems like they've got
some pretty cool stuff happening now. The way they approach the whole
thing, particularly when your making some nice chunky loops and all,
that would be fun.
