Tiemann adds personal spin to favorite songs
Katie Jardine, Online Student Life Editor
May 3, 2010
Filed under Eye on Art
For sophomore Stevie Tiemann, artistic creation involves a synthesis of both personal skills and already-accessible art. He completely remakes songs, integrating his own stylistic changes, and he performs live sets with his friend and cousin Trevor Kirkland.
Tiemann and Kirkland each began and grew as musical performers through their church, where Tiemann still plays weekly. Eventually the cousins decided to try their hand at creating their own covers of favorite songs.
“We have very similar music tastes and very similar playing styles,” Tiemann said. “It just made sense.”
The boys try to switch up sets with a new list of songs every time, but stick to mutual favorites like Bon Iver, Pedro the Lion, Radiohead and Coldplay.
“We’ll listen to a song that’s not normally acoustic, and try to figure out a way to make it sound really, really full with only two instruments and our vocals,” Tiemann said.
Each has experience in singing, so they try to split up the vocals as evenly as possible throughout each set. But, while both boys have been playing guitar for around eight years, Kirkland typically holds those reins while Tiemann provides instrumentation on the piano.
“Honestly, we can each hold our own with both instruments pretty well,” Tiemann said. “I just have a little more experience with piano, and we liked the direction that adding piano was taking us.”
Tiemann performed with Kirkerland on Friday, April 30, at the Loft at Windsor Crossing.
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