We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Davis Page a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Davis, thanks for joining us today. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.
All my life I’ve been an entertainer. During the ages of 7-12 my life was filled with performances of song and dance in school talent shows. Middle school brought to life my love of music, listing to classic rock while learning to play guitar. All the while I was growing into myself, learning how to come out of my shell and taking any opportunity to be the class clown. Since then I’ve experimented with various forms of entertainment: Stand Up & Sketch comedy, Improv, some acting. But lately my love of music has driven me into DJing and music production, breathing life into my newfound love of EDM. Over the past 4 years I’ve been co-producing a dance music collective called The Crypt and have grown to 15 members. Regularly producing raves and building up our brand. Soon we’ll be releasing our own original music, then touring the country. I believe I chose entertainment because I’ve always been a very shy, outsider type of person. I’ve always found it hard to make friends and communicate with other people given my proclivity for social anxiety but through performance and the arts I was able to fully express what ever was in my head where language could not. As derivative as it sounds, I didn’t choose entertainment, it chose me.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers
My career in music production began back in 2015, my freshman year of college at ASU. A dorm mate of mine showed me this program called Ableton, a digital audio workstation that made any musical idea you had possible. Starting with simple sample based hip hop beats, I would soon move into a new music genre, house music.
What got me into house music was actually a music video called “Bass inside” by AC Slater. It was a very simple video but it sucked me into this world of underground rave culture. Who were these people? What was this music? And why do they look so cool?
I wanted to be cool, so I started dressing like a DJ and going to raves.
Fast forward and I’ve been producing underground raves and EDM events around Phoenix for the past 4 years with my dance music collective, The Crypt.
We open a space for people to express themselves creatively, both in how they look and what they’re doing on the dance floor. We strive to provide people with the opportunity to have somewhere to meet up with friends new and old and experience music like they never have before. I want people to feel what I felt when I first started raving, like you were part of something unique, like you had a secret that only you and a handful of people knew about, that you could feel part of something where you actually belonged.
That’s the underground.
I’m proud to be part of the crew of misfits that make up the Crypt, both our members and our fans. No matter how much of a freak you are, as long as you can dance bc and have respect for one another, all are welcome here.
In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?
Opportunity. Give people the opportunity to express themselves and that’s exactly what they’ll do. Society is raised up on the innovations of creatives, the people who think different and do different things. When we regularly crush the aspirations of creative types such as writers, producers, or content creators we loose the possibility for innovation.
What society can do to remedy this is to encourage creative types to do exactly what we’re designed to do. Create!
Growing up, a career in the arts was seen as a waste of time, that if I wanted to be successful that I should choose a career in STEM or finance. Now look at the world! Kids no older than 16 years old are able to make a sustainable living off their creative labors by using their native social media platforms.
Is there mission driving your creative journey?
I want to inspire change in people who are suffering. To raise people up that are in the throes of suffering and show them what in this world is really worth living for. That’s the keyword, living. This life is temporary along with everything in it. From the ground you walk on to the neurons inside your head, this is all temporary. What will you do to make the most of it? That is what my creative journey has and always will be. My intention is to have as much fun and bring as much joy into this world as I possibly can before my flame is snuffed out. If I can inspire one person to pick up their cross in an effort to create a brighter day, it’ll be worth it.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: Dallemusic.wav
- Facebook: Dalle
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCNtd1Nh6pdm_HdT7Y8_yY4g