Communicating with Torben Wendt was a pleasure to say the least. Kind and gentle, he spent his valuable time answering our questions, in a period quite busy for him and Diorama, as Diorama’s brand new album “The Art of Creating Confusing Spirits” is being released these days.

Not only was he generous with us, but he also announced the interview at Diorama’s site.

LE – Torben, how did you decide to start writing music? Which was the first song that you composed ever, and which were the groups and generally the artists that inspired you in the beginning? Have you taken part at any other musical schemes before forming Diorama? Is Diorama enough for you to have a decent income and to not need to have another job at the same time?

Torben – I didn’t really have to decide to make music, it just happened. As far as I remember it correctly, my first song ever was a song about a dog who hates cats. I must have been about 7 years old. When I wrote my first “real” song, leaving Hollywood, at the age of 15 or 16, I started to feel that making music might not be a pure leisure activity but something I would have to pursue in life to be able to live happily. Before that I took part in several more or less questionnable projects, “Drinking Beer” (punk) and “Nexus” (trance) being the most remarkable ones. Like most other musicians in our genre, my band members and me got inspired by the wave sound of the 80s, hence bands like Black, Kraftwerk, Alan Parson’s Project or Ultravox.
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