A month after she released her third album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, Mitski ran out of LPs. In November 2014, the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter (full name Mitski Miyawaki) had pressed the record in an edition of 500 via Double Double Whammy, a small label run by friends from SUNY Purchase, where she’d studied composition. Though by December Mitski had aired the album’s songs in venues as prestigious as the Knitting Factory in New York City, neither she nor her label realized what kind of demand she’d created.
Brian Sulpizio: How are you doing?
Yeah! How do you know him? I guess you did your research, huh?
That most recent record, did you do a lot of live tracking, like, as a band?
Yeah, composition. Purchase has a unique program—they have a classical composition program, but the one I was in was called studio composition, where you obviously study classical composition, but you also learn how to work in studios, and you study quote-unquote “pop music,” whatever that means. And there’s more technology incorporated in the program. A lot of people who go into studio comp want to do film scoring or want to do production, but want to learn how to compose and so on.
People who are working toward some kind of success, it’s not usually a focus for them.
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