Interview: Insect Ark’s Dana Schechter on Making of New EP, ‘Future Fossils’

“The insects are the sounds; they live inside me, and I am the vessel, their host.”   Over the years, Dana Schechter’s band, Insect Ark, has nestled into forms of varying propulsion, sometimes direct, sometimes hidden. With Future Fossils EP, released September 24 through Consouling Sounds, gravity is the illusion. Sound is more of a physical object than a peripheral aura. It’s a time capsule, and one that has no beginning, and no end.   “The sounds themselves largely defined the direction,” Schechter says. “The process was new to me and definitely informed the final result. I intentionally did not develop the music into ‘songs,’ wanting to re-explore composition in a much more abstract way. It took a conscious effort to resist adding more layers, chords, and melody.”  The resulting constr...

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