Ted Vendramin: "Music Was Never an Inspiration—It Was Survival."
- Editorial Board
- Jul 28
- 3 min read
Ahead of the release of DOZE, Ted Vendramin opens up about healing through songwriting, working with producer Nicolas Getzrow, and creating his most honest album to date.
GHR: Hey Ted, great to see you here. What inspired you to start writing music?
TV: It's not a matter of inspiration for me, it's a matter of survival. Music has saved my life. Songs that knew exactly how I felt at that time, or even explained what I was going through. I always wrote what I felt, what was happening in my life, but not thinking about songs, just poured it out and left it all on paper.
I started really making music when I met my producer, Nicolas Getzrow, who at that time was my guitar teacher. I showed him 4 demos I had written many years ago and he just produced them. That became the first EP, At the Bottom of the Edge, that I uploaded to Spotify.
After that I just couldn't stop. I released an LP, The Mirror Face, in 2022 and now, 4 years later, I'm about to release my second album called DOZE.
GHR: How is your process of songwriting set around?
TV: First of all I grab the guitar. I'm not a good guitar player because I just can't practice. Every time I learn something new I just try to do my own thing.
When I grab my guitar and start playing, I sing what comes to mind. Always in the melody I find 1 or 2 words. Those words will always be in the song because I always l
et the song show me where to go, what it wants to say.
Once I have this I show it to Nico (my producer) and we start from there. We choose the tempo of the song, where to go. Nico makes MIDI drums (he does amazing beats and fills) and we start recording and understanding the song.
It is a really free environment we work in, although it's always online because we live in different countries.
GHR: What motivates you to create music and bring awareness to different situations through your songs?
TV: I don't know if it's motivation. I do need to pour everything out of myself. It's my way to talk, because I do not often say anything.
Everything I do I need to feel it. If I don't feel it I won't be able to do it. I cannot write a song about someone that I don't know or that hasn't had an effect on me.
Mostly it is my own healing process. I need to do it. It's not that I sit down and try to write a song. It never happened that way for me.
GHR: Could you share some insights into your next projects?
TV: DOZE is a 15-song album. I've been working on it for the past 4 years. I tried to be as open as possible. On my older projects I sometimes felt embarrassed to write and many times I limited myself.
In DOZE I didn't limit anything. It is very raw in terms of lyrics and what I went through, or go through, and I love that about it.
It's an album that goes from distorted guitar to acoustic and strings. There's some folk in the album and even some children's chorus on the last song of the LP. I love that the album surfs from anger to peace in over an hour.
DOZE will have 5 singles. The first one, ECHOES, is already out. In 2 weeks I'm releasing the second single, but I haven't decided what song it will be.
