We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Garrett Moore a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Garrett, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about the things you feel your parents did right and how those things have impacted your career and life.

My passion for electronic music actually comes from my Dad. My Dad started listening to electronic music during the 90’s and when I was a baby, he would always play these CDs with late 90’s/ early 2000’s Trance and Progressive House in the car which is what exposed me to these amazing sounds at an early age which I would subconsciously stored in my memory. Later in life when I was around 10 years old, he gave me his MP3 player which had all the songs from those CDs and I remember when I first sat down and listened to what was on that MP3 player, my mind was absolutely blown due to the unknown nostalgia. When I got my first phone I got Pandora and started adding stations based off of the artists on this MP3 that he gave me and I was quickly exposed to a whole world of electronic music artists such as Tiesto, Deadmau5, Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, and The Thrillseekers to name a few. From there my library and playlists just built throughout the years following. Both my parents have always supported me no matter what I wanted to pursue (and I’ve tried to pursue a lot of different and random things throughout my childhood) and continue to support me with my music journey and school.

Garrett, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I have always dreamed of being a professional DJ and Producer simply because I want to make people feel as good as, if not better than, I feel when I listen to music. I started pursuing this dream by teaching myself how to DJ and produce music senior year of high school in 2021, during quarantine. I took a lot of breaks between then and this past summer, not putting myself 100% into the craft due to other interests such as finding a college degree to pursue. After a rough year during sophomore year of college, I developed a different outlook on life, and decided that I wanted to go full send into learning music production and establishing myself as a DJ in Atlanta’s EDM scene, no matter what the risk. Coincidentally, during the time that I developed this new outlook, I discovered that Georgia State University has a music production major, so I finished my semester at Valdosta State University and moved back home to Atlanta to start networking as a DJ during that summer and enroll at GSU the following fall semester. This past summer, while getting into Atlanta’s EDM scene, I have met the most amazing people with similar stories and outlooks on life, some of which I am now lucky enough to call my close friends. I have also met amazing artists and friends at school which I have collaborated with on productions. I have played at several venues throughout Atlanta, such as Crazy Atlanta, Believe Music Hall, Arcadia’s “The Site”, Park Tavern, Koo Koo Room, several house parties, and even had my first couple of out of state gigs with my friends recently at Auburn University in Alabama.

When it comes to production, I want to produce music that I can play in my DJ sets, and also produce music that can be used in fiIm/video game scores. I mainly focus on producing more emotional electronic dance music such as Trance, but recently I put out a song called “Evolution” which is more of an ambient song that does not have a dance beat on top of it and this is the song that I am most proud of because it came out exactly like how I had imagined it when I thought of the idea for it. Right now I am currently working with the record label at my school to get it synced so that it can be used in films. When it comes to DJing, I initially only wanted to play Trance in my sets, but throughout my journey in Atlanta’s EDM scene, my friends in the scene have exposed to so many incredible genres of EDM which I really had no idea about, so now I am a multi genre DJ with my motto being “If I fuck with the genre, I’m gonna play it in my sets.”. While I am a mutli EDM genre DJ, I still emphasize my Trance sets and really focus on making them the best they can be by sitting down and specifically going through which songs I am going to play, in which order, and where specifically in the songs I am going to mix and transition at versus freestyling like I do in my sets with the other genres in them.

A lot of people have trouble with pronouncing my artist name (which is understandable) and I get asked what it means a lot. Euphesthesia (pronounced yoo-fes-thee-sha). is a word that I completely made up. It is a combination of two words, Euphoria and Synesthesia. The reason I chose these two words specifically to combine is because they are what brings me the most pleasure when I listen to music. I like very euphoric music such as Trance, Techno, and DnB and I also have synesthesia which is a neurological condition that enables me to see sound as colors, so when I listen to music, it is very fun for me because of the way I can relate certain sounds in songs to certain colors.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can provide some insight – you never know who might benefit from the enlightenment.

As a creative, there’s always the risk of not having financial security while pursuing your dreams and I think a lot of non-creatives struggle to understand why someone would want to risk not having that financial security. To me money is just a tool. Money is what allows people to afford to have experiences that make them happy. The most miserable I have ever been is when I had the most money, and worked all the time. I didn’t allow myself to spend the money on experiences that would make me happy because I was so intent on saving it. While saving. money is a good thing, the reason you make money is to spend it. Right now I live with my parents and when I moved in with them again, I was practically broke, but that was also the point in time I was the happiest because that is when I stared putting myself 100% into DJing and music production and started feeling rewarded for my efforts by being booked for gigs and making new friends. A lot of people work a high paying 9-5 job for 40 years after they get out of college and are lowkey miserable because they want to grind through it to save their money to have fun when they retire, not realizing that with age comes health problems, which can make retirement not as great as they imagined earlier on, so why not start having fun earlier in your life by taking the risk to make a living by expressing yourself creatively? If you want that security of a high paying 9-5 and can see yourself being happy doing that, then great! But I know for me personally, that’s not it. I am also not religious and do not believe in any kind of afterlife, so to me the life that I am living right now is the only one I will get, so I want to enjoy it as much as I can by giving people pleasure from my creative ideas.

Any resources you can share with us that might be helpful to other creatives?

I wish that I would have realized how valuable of a resource YouTube is earlier on. I remember when I was in middle school I would always fantasize about being a DJ and making my own music, but I never knew how to get started, not realizing that I had the resource to get started right in front of me, YouTube. I have a cousin who is a computer wiz and I have always wondered about how he attained so much knowledge about computers and when I asked him, all he said was “If I have a question about something, I just look it up on YouTube.”. I started looking up a bunch of YouTube videos about music and DJing, and it all started there. I believe now that knowledge should be free and there are people on the internet who believe the same thing, so they will literally go on YouTube and post free, in detail, tutorials on how to do what you are interested in. I always get a little annoyed when I hear someone say that they can’t do something because they don’t know how, when they can literally just learn for free on YouTube.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @euphesthesia_
• Other: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/gmoore5566 SoundCloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/uPbjr

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