Meet Look At Fiona. Kennady Macdonald & Jeremy Kramer of Denver

Today we’d like to introduce you to Look At Fiona. Kennady Macdonald & Jeremy Kramer

Hi look at fiona., please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
Jeremy: As two music students at CU Denver, we met in our songwriting ensemble course. The course is structured as an open forum for students to give feedback on each other’s songwriting. I remember at the beginning of our first semester, Kennady would play these tunes and make me feel things I just hadn’t felt before. Her songs would leave me speechless and with a hole in my stomach. I knew I wanted to collaborate from the first song I heard.

Kennady: I heard Jeremy play a song for a class on a student performance day. I had never heard music that creative, raw, and beautiful all in one place. The next semester we were in a songwriting class, and we got paired to cowrite a song. I always struggled with cowriting, and I rarely did it. We got paired together and it just worked so well. From then I have been able to keep my music honest, sensitive, and true to myself while also sharing it with Jeremy. I feel lucky to be working with someone who sees songwriting the way I do.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Jeremy: With anything in creative collaboration, there is tension, especially given we are both songwriters and very emotional people. We have experienced ups and downs in the process of existing together in such a vulnerable manner. I have come to accept a simple truth, if you are not kindly butting heads, then the other person doesn’t care enough. Fortunately, for the most part our inclinations take us to similar spaces, and our sound is what balances them out and creates something more powerful than either of us could create alone. We always end up with something we both connect with, regardless of any friction along the way.

Kennady: I believe that music can be extremely personal, for me it is my form of communication. I think that true work and passion comes from the back and forth of sharing honest thoughts and opinions. I am also very new to performing as a musician, which I believe gives me an insecurity from other musicians who have more experience. I’m grateful to be able to share the stage with Jeremy. And I’m grateful for every second spent working on a song.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
Jeremy: look at fiona. exists in a very conceptual and tender place. We both have our strengths and weaknesses. Kennady has an ability to convey deeply personal emotion with as little words as possible. I have an ability to create a pulsating sonic environment riddled with abstractions. I put random splotches of color on the canvas, and Kennady adds the line work to make the ethereal more defined. Thematically, we take inspiration from the ocean and the plains. It is pastoral dreampop.

Kennady: The music we create for look at fiona. is cared for so deeply, we create our music as a 50/50 split. The songs are all of my soul and all of Jeremy’s souls. I think that keeps us authentic, relatable and honest as a band. I think that is what truly sets us apart. We are both full time students with jobs that put our all into our project and I think that makes us special.

Can you talk to us a bit about happiness and what makes you happy?
Jeremy: ghosts and old abandoned buildings in the plains make me happy. the ocean makes me happy. the things i don’t understand are the things that make me happy. why wouldn’t they?

Kennady: I think that my happiness comes from all of the little moments that happen that I may forget later, but in the moment it means so much. And the people who make life worth it. That is what makes me happy.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/lookatfiona
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lookatfiona.mp3/profilecard/
• Soundcloud: https://m.soundcloud.com/look-at-fiona
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@look.at.fiona

Image Credits
Emelia Stahl (concert photo)

(others were friends)