Welcome to Episode 22 of Tapestry, where I had the pleasure of chatting with one of my favorite singers in the progressive music world, Katie Thompson. She's involved in lots of projects, including her primary progressive metal band Chiasma, The Plagued Raven (an ambient duo), Kadebra (progressive metal/djent), and many others.

We discuss the pitfalls of mixing money with music, how she stays organized working with collaborators in different styles all over the world -- and how she created an electronic pop project about a mannequin to hone her production skills, and to pitch for a technical death metal band!

📷: Heagy Photography and Video

Check out Katie's projects here. They're all on Bandcamp and Spotify as well:

https://www.facebook.com/Chiasmatheband/

https://www.facebook.com/ThePlaguedRaven/

https://www.facebook.com/kadebraband/

https://www.facebook.com/Tetrascape/

Topics of discussion for this episode:

#archspire

#betweentheburiedandme

#beyondcreation

#btbam

#chiasma

#chicago

#choir

#church

#cinematic

#collaboration

#creativewriting

#cynic

#devintownsend

#djent

#dogstar

#dune

#enya

#evanescence

#expanse

#fallujah

#femalefronted

#femalevocalists

#fiction

#filmscore

#filmscoring

#foofighters

#frankherbert

#fryscream

#gatekeeping

#gorod

#gothicmetal

#harshvocals

#hatchling

#hipsters

#humanelement

#igorrr

#indiana

#indianapolis

#instrumental

#jpop

#kadebra

#kamelot

#keanureeves

#keyboards

#lafayette

#legendofzelda

#literature

#mannequins

#matness

#melissakaplan

#michigan

#musicindustry

#nightwish

#nintendoswitch

#opera

#opeth

#paulmasvidal

#pianist

#pianolessons

#pianoteacher

#pizza

#powermetal

#progmetal

#progressive

#progressivemetal

#projecthero

#punkband

#reaches

#recodethesubliminal

#scifi

#singertricks

#spaceexploration

#splashdown

#startrek

#strappingyounglad

#symphonicmetal

#technicaldeathmetal

#tetrascape

#theanimaeffect

#thematrix

#theplaguedraven

#thesnowman

#tommyrogers

#touring

#tristania

#twostepsfromhell

#vocalists

#vocallayering

#withintemptation