> What motivated you to move from acoustic to digital hardcore?
- I always loved electronic music and the jump was something I had wanted to do since I started making music. It just took me years to finally figure out how to make electronic music.

> What's your favorite scene from Machine Girl, and why?
- hmmm.... i havent actually watched machine girl in 6 or 7 years... but probably the scene in the auto shop where machine girl and the family that owns the autoshop are ambushed by ninjas. just so over the top and ridiculous. the effects are especially gore-y and cheesy. love it.

> How would you say aesthetics inspire your music?
- im a very visual person. ive always created little music videos, narratives, movies in my head when listening to music. before i started getting into making music, myself i used to spend a lot of time drawing. i would sit in my room for hours, blasting music in my walkman and drawing my own characters in this sprawling anime inspired epic i had put together in my head. i think that association between visual art and music (and having a love for music videos for as long as I can remember) has stuck with me and i think about it a lot when working on machine girl stuff. applying some sort of aesthetic to the music gives it context and i think helps transport the listener to another place. to me, a lot of machine girl is pretty fantasy based in that sense.

> How do your tracks grow?
- i start by creating random loops in ableton. once something feels like it clicks, i start expanding on it. i try to keep myself in check and not spend too much time expanding on the initial loop because i have a tendency to do that which usually results in me getting sick of the loop before it have becomes any semblance of a track.