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<\/a>She made it through and just released Slammed Doors and Severance<\/i>, her first full-length album. Much of Kavka\u2019s alternative folk\/country\/indie sound actually comes from a love for \u201970s rock, such as The Rolling Stones, she says. Kavka\u2019s 2016 EP Hay Fever<\/i>, recorded in Japan at a studio that only records on cassette, had minimal arrangements; it took Kavka a while to find the right group of people so that she could perform the songs as she envisioned them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Slammed Doors and Severance<\/i>, I wanted to just have a huge sound with a lot of instrumentalists and not feel held back at all in terms of the arrangements, even though it\u2019s still just a standard rock band kind of set up,\u201d says Kavka, citing The Stones\u2019 Exile on Main St. <\/i>as an example of the sound she was aiming for. \u201cI was kind of shooting for that in terms of having the live sound with a lot of instrumentalists playing off of each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kavka (who was also a Nexus<\/i> staff photographer during her time at Camosun) says her formal education in St. John\u2019s helped cultivate her creativity and ability as a musician, which she says stands contrary to what many creative people often believe about education.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people think formal training takes away from creativity, and my formal training actually just gave me a lot more tools in terms of thinking about music and how I can communicate ideas with people, and how I can conceptualize things in a bigger scope,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Kavka adds that every musician, in their own way, rationalizes music to some extent.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoing formal training, for me, just gave me a different sort of framework, a way of doing it,\u201d she says. \u201cI kind of view it as a trade school.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kavka says it not only helped her learn to play better but also helped her to grasp what she calls \u201cthe architecture of music.\u201d She says one of her favourite experiences in school was playing chamber music, because it taught her the meaning and value of communication from a musical standpoint.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot just in being able to talk about music, but the way you communicate through your playing and through visual cues, and your body language, the way you phrase things to help communicate with other people you\u2019re performing with,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Kavka says that communication was an important element in making sure the recording process for her album went well.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of the instrument tracks were done live at the same time in the same room, so I was playing with the bass player and the drummer. We were doing live tracking for all the rhythm tracks,\u201d she says. \u201cOur ability to communicate with one another and insinuate changes in time, I don\u2019t think it would have been possible in the same way. I wouldn\u2019t have had the confidence to know how to communicate those changes to these musicians. It\u2019s sort of like, I used to be able to swing a hammer, but now I can build a house.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since finishing studying cello in the music diploma program at the Victoria Conservatory of Music\u2014a partner of Camosun\u2014in 2011, Naomi Kavka has travelled everywhere from Japan to Prince George to record music. But Kavka\u2014who recently completed studies in musicology at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John\u2019s\u2014has overcome dark times in her life, and at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-september-20-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14672,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669\/revisions\/14672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}