David Haberfeld has a substantial history creating electronic dance music under the moniker Honeysmack.
He'll be performing at Melbourne Synth Festival, which is part of Melbourne Music Week. “What do you want me to say? What don't you know?” is his reply when asked to give a brief background to Honeysmack.
It's a shaky start to a stilted interview that progresses to an enquiry as to where his passion for electronic dance music began. “In my father's balls, I guess.”
On the subject of his craft: “I'm not a f...ing DJ whatsoever, I don't DJ,” he clarifies.
“So I don't playback recorded music or other people's music. I don't even playback my own music, I improvise with hardware.
“That hardware can be modular synths, it can be a whole lot of drum machines and other synths but I'm not interested in making DJ music or anything like that. What I do tends to be in the realm of dance music absolutely, but I like interacting with machines.
“There's no computers or anything onstage; computers are just so f...ing amazing that every f...ing dickhead has one.
“Everything I do is modular, whether it's using an actual modular synthesiser or not, which is what you're asking me, but I'm saying everything I do is modular,” he says.
“While most people consider a single drum machine or synthesiser as being a single instrument, I don't see it in that way. All the pieces hooked up together, whether it's a modular synth or other bits and pieces, becomes one instrument.”
