[Editor's Note:The following excerpt is from an interview with Michael Hearst of One Ring Zero. The interview was featured on Wired.com.]

Michael Hearst, half of the musical duo One Ring Zero, busted out theremins, a glockenspiel and other odd instruments to recreate the ultimate sound of summer on his new solo recording, Songs for Ice Cream Trucks. Wired News freelancer Scott Thill interviewed Hearst about the record, the roots of "booktronica" and more. Here's the full, unedited Q&A:

Wired News: Interesting idea! Where did you come up with it?

Michael Hearst: Thanks! I'm proud to say that it's probably one of the most absurd things I've ever done in my musical career. It really just started off as, what I considered to be, an interesting concept for an album. I never imagined that these tunes would actually get played on ice cream trucks. In all honesty, the music on this album is not that different from some of the stuff Joshua and I have written for One Ring Zero. In the past people have said that certain One Ring Zero songs sound like ice cream truck music anyway. So, perhaps the idea has always been there, just waiting for the right moment.

That moment came last summer when I started to get incredibly tired of hearing the same songs over and over again coming from the ice cream trucks that rolled by my apartment. The trucks here in Brooklyn are relentless. Probably two or three go by my apartment every day. Anyway, that's when I decided to finally start working on this album. I recorded the entire thing in my apartment -- in my "1/2 bedroom," as the realtors call it, which is really just an over-sized closet. As soon as I finished with the first four songs, I made a MySpace page and posted them as mp3s.

The response was really amazing. All kinds of people started to write me: parents, hipsters, nostalgic older folk, and then, most exciting of all ... actual ice cream truck drivers. I didn't realize it, but apparently there's just not much out there in the way of ice cream truck music. If you did an internet search with the words "songs for ice cream trucks," I was one of the only things that popped up. It quickly became clear to me that, as tired as we all are of hearing the same songs over and over, the actual ice cream truck drivers are even more so. I mean, these guys are stuck hearing the same thing for eight hours straight. One ice cream truck driver was so excited about this CD, that he emailed me practically once a week until the album was finally released. Another guy, who owns a small fleet of trucks in North Carolina, actually commissioned me to write a song specifically for him.

Read the entire interview at Wired.com