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“ I THINK ONE-MAN BANDS are a rising trend,” Pallett told me at lunch. “One way to do that is to form these massive collectives and put on big stage shows: a ‘more is more’ kind of thing.” She smiled to herself demurely. “I think a lot of bands decided to maximalize their sound — if that’s a word — as a kind of reaction to the stark, sort of minimalist indie rock in the 90’s,” she said finally. When I asked the 25-year-old Clark to explain this apparent paradox, she considered the question for a while. Vincent — has played with a veritable Who’s Who of supersize outfits, from the Polyphonic Spree to Sufjan Stevens’s band to the no-wave pioneer Glenn Branca’s all-guitar orchestra.

Even more curiously, the two trends are intimately connected: Pallett has toured with the Arcade Fire as a violinist Noah Lennox, who plays solo under the name Panda Bear, is an active member of Animal Collective and Annie Clark — who records and performs under the nom de rock St. Among the most notable are Pallett, Noah Lennox and Annie Clark.

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The past few years in progressive pop, which have given rise to a series of popular and acclaimed collectives — uncommonly large bands with a disdain for clearly defined hierarchies, like Montreal’s Arcade Fire, or even a fluid definition of membership, like Toronto’s Broken Social Scene or Brooklyn’s Animal Collective — have also produced a wide variety of solo performers. And Pallett is by no means alone in pursuing these advantages. I feel liberated by them every day.”Īdvances in recording and performance technology now make it possible for musicians not only to fire the drummer but also — if so inclined — to do away with accompaniment altogether without losing the richness, or seemingly the spontaneity, of a full-size band. They’re choices I made.” When I asked whether both those decisions had the same objective — liberation through a kind of radical economy of means — Pallett bobbed his head enthusiastically. The boundaries of what I’m doing as Final Fantasy define the whole project: I choose to perform solo, and to write songs in the pop idiom, so neither of those two things are limitations. “There’s this utopian idea — a cult, really — that an artist should have infinite means at his disposal,” Pallett told me over lunch at a vegan cafe. An unabashedly articulate 28-year-old with a degree in classical composition from the University of Toronto, Pallett makes no secret of his commitment to reinvigorating pop. “Unprecedented” isn’t a term you hear much in pop music these days, not even in indie circles, and the obvious comfort with which Pallett uses it is closely tied to Final Fantasy’s appeal. “When it’s done, though, it’s going to be kind of unprecedented.”

“There are still all sorts of glitches in the program the algorithms are really complex.” He frowned at the tangle of cables at his feet, seemingly forgetting me altogether, then suddenly broke into a boyish grin. “I shouldn’t have brought you here,” he murmured apologetically. The effect was dramatic, to say the least, but Pallett still wasn’t satisfied.

“A fade, not a jump.” A few moments later he got to his feet, bowed his violin violently, and the room shook with elegant noise. “I want the sound to make a smooth transition from amp to amp,” Pallett said, pouting a little.

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The idea was to cycle his violin’s signal from one amplifier to the next — something like surround sound in a movie theater — but it wasn’t quite working. “Oh! This is exciting,” he whispered at one point, giggling to himself nerdishly. The amps were arranged in a loose semicircle, vaguely reminiscent of Stonehenge: Pallett spent the day before writing a computer program to coordinate the various outputs, and the impression he made now was less that of an up-and-coming rock star than of a crackpot inventor, à la Nikola Tesla, sequestered in his workshop.

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Effects pedals, instrument cables, patch cords and microphone stands took up most of the space, radiating out from the laptop and sound card that Pallett was fussing over, and an ominous hum filled the room. On a rainy afternoon this past December, in his cramped rehearsal studio on Toronto’s southwest side, Owen Pallett — known to his fans as the singer, songwriter, violinist, pianist, bassist, harpsichordist, engineer and everything else that makes up the indie-rock one-man band Final Fantasy — was trying to play his violin through five amplifiers at once.