Who is Eli van Vegas?
As early as during my childhood I've always dreamed of being a musician some day. I used to "play" the badminton racket guitar in my child's room while singing along to mixtapes. Later on I bought me a CD player from my first money - which still is my main CD player in the present! I grew up with the music from Roxette, Rage Against The Machine, The Prodigy, and many others. So I had to play a real guitar to make my dream come true. But there was a lack of teachers and my parents sent me to learn the piano at the local music school first. At the age of 14 when everybody around me started to get their moped driver's licenses, my parents made me choose between that and playing the (electronic) guitar. Obviously I've chosen the guitar (and always will). I had to even ride my bike a few years more. But that was OK.
My guitar teacher taught me much more than how to play the guitar. I've learned the basics of writing music and composition, music theory and so much more. He sent me to further lessons on the next city's conservatory. I focussed on studying music, the guitar and the piano being my predominant instruments. But I ended up without studying music. During the entrance exam at the university I figured out how wrong it would be to start studying that. Instead I decided to learn sound engineering on my own. I worked as a self-employed sound engineerfor many years. After realising how wrong I was even with this job, because on one hand you are absolutely on a social quarantine when you work in the studio or being the very different on tour, I quit that profession and studied communication design. Today I am still working as a freelancing designer, I've found what I was looking for. That particularly gives me the freedom to create, produce and write music and being on tour with my own music without any economical pressure behind it. Even though I am doing all the music related arts partly for a living, but always professionally.
It's been a way, but here I am now.
Music is my mission
Around 16 % of our daily impressions is causedthrough the auditory sense. That is pretty much a lot given the point that humans are visial creatures. So music is something like the secret section of creation, but most of us like music or radio tunes at least. As I am designing predominantly visual elements in my daily job, music and is my hidden mission. Though a part of my job still is the auditive part being a videographer. But I undoubtedly needed a different space to operate freely and thus undependant from everything. As a designer, I always wanted make the world a more beautiful and fairer one. Customers have taught me better. Economics relativise every mission. In music, I am my own boss. So that's why I am doing it. Not the songwriting alone, but from the concepts of each song, sound design, artwork to everything that belongs to the process of releasing and performing music. And damn I love to play concerts.
