Zazie Productions, Asheville's clandestine autistic polymath, seamlessly shifts between roles as a multi-instrumentalist, avant-garde composer, sound artist, graphic designer, and off-kilter short filmmaker.
His audaciousness was apparent early on. Commissioned by Black Mountain College at just 14, he took on Erik Satie’s "Gymnopédie No. 1," reimagining it with musique concrète techniques. The result was Cheaper Impressions an acclaimed multifaceted homage to John Cage’s
“Cheap Imitation” which became a standout track on his 2020 EP, Stutter to stammer.
Even subtle, minute, infinitesimally small, minuscule volume changes, frequencies, dynamics, registers, pitches, tones, and emotions are all permanently etched within his brain—as a full-motion, panoramic, stereoscopic, full HD+ 3D-model memory.
Zazie's work delves into the chaotic symphony of existence, corralling anarchy into art. The soundscape fluctuates between meditative solace and clamoring disarray, not unlike the artist's own oscillating periods of reclusive introspection and rampant innovation.
