Q: […]So u say music is about going deeper. We can see that in your lyrics, which are like poems under the blanket of instruments. In fact, poetry isn’t the only field of art, which you connect with music. On your websites I can see your fascination with visual arts as well. Where did that wide interest in the arts come from?

We are ourselves avid consumers of art of any kind, and in turn we use every opportunity to communicate ideas as best we can. For instance caring only about the music and not the lyrics, would have been a missed opportunity. It’s like we are keeping the flame of tradition alive. Before the Homeric epics were put to paper, wandering musicians were traveling around, citing poems accompanied by music. Music is the emotional carrier the audience can identify with, and lyrics bear the intellectual content. Art is there to present and communicate something  anyone on the receiving end can benefit from by observing or experiencing that. That’s what we are here to do. Not caring about our artwork would similarly be a missed opportunity, especially as we are hardwired to respond to visual stimuli and we live in the times that our brains get overexcited by the abundance of it. Marketing is trying to get our recently very limited attention span every given second with schemes exploiting our sex drive, our need to connect, or our fear of dying. We, in Phase, on the other hand love having beautiful art of every sorts to compliment and support each message we have to convey.

Sonia Stępień on an A grade Essay on Journalism (University Nikolai Copernici, Torun Poland)

Period: November 2013