About Trevor Dunn: Trevor Roy Dunn is an American composer, bass guitarist and double bassist.
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.
Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.
I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way.
I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.
I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.
Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.
I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.
I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.
I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.
I love playing in Fantomas, which is very strict in terms of composition.
If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure.
I take all of my music seriously and personally.
