Emilie Autumn

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Emilie Autumn
Autumn performs live at Nachtleben 2007.
Background information
Also known as	W14A
Genres	Victoriandustrial Cabaret Electronica Classical Folk New Age
Occupations	Musician Writer Poet Artist Model
Instruments	Vocals Violin Harpsichord Piano Midi-powered Marimba Viola kazoo Viola da gamba Spoons Guitar
Years active	2000 – present
Labels	Traitor Records, Trisol Music Group GmbH, The End Records
Website	emilieautumn.com
Notable instruments
Vocals, electric violin, harpsichord

Emilie Autumn is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and violinist who is best known for her wide range of musical styles and her usage of theatrics.^[1] She is supported by a backing band known as The Bloody Crumpets.^[1]

Biography

When she was nine, Emilie left regular school to practice on her violin for nine hours a day and had the goal of becoming a world-class violinist.^[2] At fourteen, she attended Conservatory College and later Indiana University and a music school.^[2] After two years at Indiana University, she left because she disagreed with their views on individuality and classical music. She explains:

They would say, “Oh my God! You’re going to go on stage like that? This is supposed to be about the music. You’re distracting people from listening.” I’m thinking that it was insulting to the audience to think that they can’t focus on more than one thing at a time. My goal always was, and is, and has always been to represent the music, especially classic music. It is the best! I’m sorry, it is the best. That’s still my favorite and to represent that in its ultimate true form is not to sit back there and hide your individuality in the shadows. What I was always told, literally word for word, a million times was growing up in my life – this just tortured me every day – was, “You are not what is important. You are literally a vessel for the music of some a person has been dead for some hundred of years. You are meant to keep your individuality out if, because it’s not about you.” I’m just too wildly independent and selfish for that. Fuck yah it’s about me, because you’re dead and I’m not and I’m the reason why any body’s getting to hear your fucking music. And guess who would have agreed absolutely? They guy who wrote it. They would have never had a problem with that. It wasn’t always like that at all. This was the sexiest thing to do. This was the sexiest thing to play. Mozart is not going to have a problem if some girl is not wearing sleeves.^[2]

She describes Nigel Kennedy as her "sole inspiration".^[2]

Television appearances

Autumn was featured in an episode of HGTV's That's Clever! (then Crafters Coast To Coast), creating a pair of "Floral Tea Party Fairy Wings" and sushi soap available from her fashion/lifestyle label, WillowTech House (which is currently on hiatus).^[3]

Autumn has been a guest artist on the Adult Swim cartoon Metalocalypse, in which she performed all violins as the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the episode "Detharmonic". She also appeared on The Dethalbum.^{[citation needed]}

Discography

Albums

• On a Day… (2000)
• Enchant (2003, re-released 2007)
• Your Sugar Sits Untouched (2005, CD and poetry book)
• Opheliac (2006)
• Laced/Unlaced (2007)
• A Bit O' This & That (2007)

EPs and singles

• Chambermaid (EP) (2001)
• By the Sword (EP) (2001)
• Opheliac EP (2006, preview EP)
• Liar/Dead Is the New Alive (2007)
• 4 o'Clock (2008)
• Girls Just Wanna Have Fun & Bohemian Rhapsody Double Feature EP (2008)

Special editions

• Opheliac (Digipak)
• Liar/Dead Is the New Alive (Digipak)
• Laced/Unlaced (Double CD and hardcover photo book)
• Enchant (CD and limited hardcover-digibook)
• A Bit O' This & That (CD and limited hardcover-digibook)
• 4 o'Clock (Digipak)
• Girls Just Wanna Have Fun & Bohemian Rhapsody Double Feature EP (Digipak)
• Opheliac Deluxe Edition

Guest contributions

• Backing vocals and violin on the album America's Sweetheart (2003) by Courtney Love^[4]
• Backing vocals and violin on the album The Future Embrace (2004) by Billy Corgan^[4]
• Violin on the track "Dethharmonic" from Dethklok's The Dethalbum (2007)
• Guest vocals and violin on EP "All Mine Enemys Whispers" (2008) by Attrition.
• Song "Organ Grinder" on the European edition of the Saw III soundtrack^[4]
• Remix version of "Dead Is The New Alive" on the international version of the Saw IV soundtrack^[4]
• Violin on the track "UR A WMN NOW" on OTEP's fourth album, "Smash the Control Machine" (2009)^[4]

Bibliography

• Across the Sky & Other Poems
• Your Sugar Sits Untouched
• The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls (December, 15th, 2009)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Emilie Autumn

• Official Emilie Autumn website
• Emilie's MySpace
• (Italian) Interview with Emilie Autumn