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Musician gets snrre
One-man band aims
for ethereal emotion
By Melissa Price
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E ver since he was a five-year-old rummaging
through his uncle’s Rush album collection,
Matthew Rosin knew he had to create music.
“It was something I needed to do,” Rosin said.
“There’s nothing else that moves me the way
music moves me.”
Rosin, the sole member of the ethereal-goth
ic band Surreality and a sophomore philosophy
major, said his music is a diverse mix of sounds
resulting in an intensely personal and emotion
al outcome. Rosin said although he prefers not
to label his music, some people classify it as ethe
real-gothic because of its intense emotional as
pect and strong romantic themes.
Rosin will be playing at Sweet Eugene’s House
of lava tonight at 9.
Rosin began Surreality a year and a half ago.
He played in several heavy metal bands in high
school before realizing his heart was in explor
ing ambient and New Age music.
"My first love has always been the synthesiz
er — the more I did with it, the more I realized
that was where I wanted my music to go,” Rosin
said. “It was a natural progression from what I’ve
done before, and I wasn’t really interested in get
ting pigeon-holed in one style of doing things.”
Rosin said although he has played in bands
with multiple members before, he prefers to
work alone because his music is personal and
other band members would complicate things.
He said there is one disadvantage to working
alone, but he makes the best of it.
“While I can do less things at once, I feel I can
really do more with the dynamics of the music if
I work alone,” Rosin said.
Rosin said if he were working with others, he
might have to risk some of his ideas and goals be
ing pushed aside or eliminated for the sake of
compromise. Rosin said he likes to improvise
during shows and bring out the emotions of the
moment - something he could not do effective
ly if he played with other people.
“If I worked with other people, I couldn’t feel
like my heart was in it, and that is the most im
portant thing if you are going to write music,”
Rosin said.
Rosin said he is different from other perform
ers in Bryan-College Station because his music
is influenced primarily by one element — pure
human emotion. Surreality explores pain and
pleasure, love and fear, depression and beauty in
its music, Rosin said.
Mason Pokladnik, a sophomore business
analysis major who has helped Rosin produce
his three albums, said Rosin’s music is different
from any he has heard before.
“It almost defies description - it’s a definite
break from the alternative mainstream of today,”
Pokladnik said. “His music is very original — it’s
pretty, it’s simple; yet to truly understand it, you
Matt Rosin of the ethereal-gothic band Surreality
actually have to think about it.”
Rosin said he takes great pride in creating
something beautiful out of dark emotions and
seeing it take on a life of its own.
Pokladnik said he encourages people to give
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Rosin’s music a chance. ,in ‘
“He’s new and different, and people
at least try it,” Pokladnik said. “It is likeitfl
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