LINEARMOVEMENT important. Freedom can also result in total mess, which is not TWR at all. It has to be good. Linear Movement was first called Pulse Music, right? Why did you change the name? With that name you released the only cassette in 1982, right? Pulse Music was the title of the first cassette, a C30, so 15 minutes each side.That’s all we had at that time. I kept the title for the later album. Linear Movement was your more song-oriented/pop project. Did you enjoy more composing experimental music or pop songs? I personally enjoyed all projects I did,why else would I do it? But here’s the thing: synths are all around. Creating sounds is still challenging but the bigger challenge is to do something valuable with it. That what I wanted to improve with LMO: song writing, production, arrangements, those were the next things I needed to learn. Not that we didn’t do that earlier but I wanted to put more focus on it for myself. Just look at the complexity of ‘Way Out Of Living”.That’s quite different from the early Autumn work, isn’t it? You recovered the music of Linear Movement in 2003 with a compilation released on Micrart, just a couple of years before the interest in all the minimal wave movement. Did you ever think that your music was going to be trendy again? Not at all, I just wanted to keep my old stuff a little bit alive. I needed to update the format on which music was shared. Vinyl albums were always very difficult, but now ad-hoc CDs became available, so that was the way to go.A pity you can’t do that anymore today. But I do believe it paved the way for more people to find the music, eventually being picked up by major labels or initiatives. Never thought that would happen though. Going back to other of your projects, in the mideighties you focused on A Split-Second. Was it too demanding or did you think that you had enough of the other three projects? Well, at that time, the other projects were dead. Especially since Geert was too far away for his studies. And also, A Split-Second took all of my energy, but also allowed a fast growth in professionalism. I did the co-writing, engineered a pro studio, did the arrangements, recording, production, mixing and remixing. We experimented with the newest samplers (brand new tech at that time) and effects tomake damn interesting tracks for the dancefloors.And we did it! I brought all that to the later works ofTWR andWasteland. www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be - 14 - Do you think that Flesh was an important release for the development of New Beat? People told us it was. I don’t think it’s up to me to judge that, but hey, if you’re considered to be one of the founders of the only musical hype from this country,who am I to say no? So yes, it left a mark but I have double feelings about it. Only now, A Split-Second is being recognised for its true value, away from the New Beat hype from those days. Do you think that your other project Wasteland deserved better luck? Are you going to have these tracks released again? Ah yes,we almost hit the top with Wasteland. By missing a big deal, we kind of let it go and that ended it. Unfortunately, because there were still many options. And yes, I plan to release all the tracks sometime. I’ve got all the rights and I’ve got the opportunity to remix them too. I believe that’s required as the old recording really start to sound old. And as a tribute to my old friend that died last year, great singer and songwriter Alain Allaeys. Another side project is Chayell Zen,where,as you said, you have combined your first love for cosmic music and your aim of making your children sleep. What can you please tell us more about this? Well, that’s something different. You know, I’ve heard so many times that much of the music I’ve made is ‘visual,’ belongs in a ‘movie’ of some sort. D(ayd)reaming is also visual, so why not? On the other hand, it may not be ‘gratuitous.’ Anyone can buy a Mac, launch Logic, and create a dreamy track. But that is not good enough. I like to put a twist in it, e.g. a totally distorted echo on a smooth piano. What can we expect of Peter Bonne in the future? Maybe a tour playing the Autumn material? Maybe next year at Ombra? Linear Movement is planned for OMBRA this year, December 2023. I’ve found Lieve (who did a lot of the singing back then) willing to join in again and that’s going to be really unique as we haven’t played together for 40 years!! After that, who knows! www.linear-movement.bandcamp.com/ François Zappa © Published by the kind permission of El Garaje de Frank www.elgarajedefrank.es
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