day 22: kit israel
MUSIC
1. What was your career path? How did you get from being an aspiring music producer to actually doing it full time, for a living?
Strangely enough, I went from a degree in Mathematics, to Post Grad Diploma in Geoinformatics, then to working in the GIS field only to then realize I needed to do what I needed to do. Just before I left my job to do music production full time, I realized that though free time is something we will never get back so if we I didn’t focus on my dreams and goals now it probably may never happen. I did production for about 12 years in the background as a hobby. So it wasn’t new to me. Just I knew to myself I could not live with out.
2. What other producers, songwriters and/or artists do you see as your primary inspirations?
This is difficult to say because everyone I work closely with has significantly inspired me at some point and every song I have listened to inspired me in one form or the other.
3. What is distinctive about an Advokit Production?
Our core vision. Music and art is our avenue to make change for the better for the next generation through collaboration, honestly, loyalty and genuine comradry.
4. Do you have a favourite musical project that you've worked on?
Nope. I really have to be cliché here but all are my favourite.
5. Is there an artist you want to work with that you have not yet had the opportunity to work with?
Another tricky question. I want to work with any and everyone that is as passionate as me towards it.
6. What can we expect from Advokit Productions in 2014-2015?
Shhhhhhh!! No comment.
7. For all the aspiring musicians out there, what are a few things you suggest they do in order to be successful in their career.
Never stop.
8. How do you get inspired to create and step out of your comfort zone?
In meeting new people, naturally you have to step out and adapt. So I try to work with more different people as regularly as possible. Growth requires change.
SO WE HAD TO ASK...
1. Are you a MAC or PC lover?
MAC for sure.
2. What do you like to do for fun outside of working on music and photography? Ahhhhhhhhh… Movies.
3. Tell us something about you that very few people already know?
I am actually very shy.