{"id":192,"date":"2025-09-29T21:15:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/open-forms.nl\/?p=192"},"modified":"2025-09-30T19:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:12:55","slug":"qa-with-jony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/open-forms.nl\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/qa-with-jony\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A WITH JONY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><em><strong>[When did you fall in love with electronic music for the first time? Describe!]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About seven years ago, in my mid-twenties. I was a performing musician <a><\/a>for years already at this point, but I\u2019d lost steam and I wasn\u2019t sure about who I was and what I was into anymore. So for the first time in my life I started listening to my curiosity about clubs and electronic dance music. I did what many have done before me, I went to Berlin. And as soon as I set foot in a club there, was surrounded by people who shared my love of music, and let the beats pulse through me I knew that this was the path for me. It scratched an incredibly deep itch. It was a life-changing experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jony\" width=\"474\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fusers%2F11073363&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=711&#038;maxwidth=474\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>[What do you strive for, if anything, in your performances?]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short, to stay true to that experience I just mentioned. Whether I go to an event to dance, or to be a performer, I\u2019m always carrying myself with the intention to connect. The music sits at the core of what I do, but it is not the end goal. The end goal is sharing in a moment of energy exchange between a group of beautiful people. To align ourselves. To carry responsibility for the vibe, whether I\u2019m making the music or dancing to it. Which is easier said than done when you\u2019re also focussing on a bunch of complex, technical processes in order to keep the music going. That is, for me personally, the real challenge of making live electronic music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>[Imagine your music was made for animals, which animals would that be?]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I already make music for animals <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude09\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tf6\/2\/16\/1f609.png\"> Anyway, here\u2019s a cool fact about gibbons: they\u2019re amazing singers, and they sing for many different suspected reasons. To mark their territory, to attract mates, to communicate, and to bond with their group, to name a few. Sounds familiar, right? I think our urge for making\/enjoying\/raving to music relates to a similar web of human social behaviors. So I think I\u2019ll choose to make music for\/with some gibbons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>[Who would be a dream to perform with? Why?]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I enjoy collaborating the most with people whom I also vibe with on a personal level. Communicating through music with someone like that is a guaranteed enriching experience. That\u2019s why collaborating with Simone makes a lot of sense, I get along with him very well. I\u2019ll also name someone who has influenced my values as an artist, and that\u2019s Kae Tempest. There\u2019s all sorts of reasons I could get into, but if you read their book titled On Connection (which I highly recommend you do) you\u2019ll see why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[When did you fall in love with electronic music for the first time? Describe!] About seven years ago, in my mid-twenties. I was a performing musician for years already at this point, but I\u2019d lost steam and I wasn\u2019t sure about who I was and what I was into anymore. So for the first time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/open-forms.nl\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/qa-with-jony\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Q&amp;A WITH JONY<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-forms.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-forms.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-forms.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-forms.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-forms.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/open-forms.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/open-forms.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-forms.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-forms.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-forms.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}