Orange County band Undecided Future is mixing up experimental funk and riding the path of social media fame.
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Since their start at Orange County School of the Arts, the five members of Undecided Future have been known for constantly evolving their performance style and innovative signature sound. When they’re not performing live sets around the county, they’re filming unique content for social media using a rideable bike guitar and bike drum. Lead singer Matt Isaac, guitarist Cole Fredrick, keyboardist Nick Stone, bassist Chris Trimmer, and drummer Matisse Pasillas lean on their individual creative backgrounds to craft everything in house. Their latest experimental EP “The Space Pilot Files” and recent single releases are paving the way for a new chapter for the band.
Where did the bike guitar and bike drum come from?
Pasillas: A friend of Chris, his cousin is a luthier from Mexico named Jesus Olmos. He sent us a video of the bike guitar he was working on saying, “You guys should use it for a video.” Cole shot a video of Chris on it, and then all of a sudden, we’re viral. A few months ago, we got a drum bike made by them. We’re kind of just like riding this weird new thing that feels like traveling space; nobody knows what’s going on.
Trimmer: We’re thankful it’s a bridge. I feel like a lot of bands nowadays have trouble getting people from social media to their actual stream. That’s kind of helped us in standing out amongst the noise that is social media.
How has your sound developed with time?
Pasillas: Over the years, it’s been molding into something that we haven’t really done. We’ve always done funk and R&B, but now we’re really being intentional about the chords. A little bit darker and sexier. We’re growing, and we feel like that’s what we want to listen to.
Trimmer: We draw from a lot of styles, being musicians. It’s a collection of what we listen to, and what we like to play. Whenever we sit down to write a song, there’s never really a main goal in mind. It’s a lot like our name, Undecided Future.
What does the future hold for Undecided Future?
Isaac: What we’re really trying to hone right now is our own performances, now that we’re starting to get more opportunities for that. One hundred percent of the energy has to be on stage. Our entire goal is to make people sweat just as hard as we are because they’re having such a good time.
Pasillas: We have a song called “Lavender” that people are really liking along with a few other songs in the catalog that we made. We’re actually thinking about making an album, so we’re pretty excited about that.
What has it been like developing a fan base?
Trimmer: It’s the reason we do it. These fans that come out to our shows support us, and not just our music. It helps our lives, and we’re just happy to be giving back to someone who wants to hear good music. I think one of our goals of being musicians is to bring people out of their everyday life.
Isaac: Social media is such a blessing these days because you can find so many people all over the world that resonate with what we’re doing. I think now the goal is to figure out how to give all of them a piece of our music. How can we get to where they are and have them enjoy the same show that we’ve been playing here?