Fans of post-hardcore outfit The Receiving End of Sirens are no strangers to the name Casey Crescenzo. But since 2006, Crescenzo has pursued his own musical turf as The Dear Hunter. His projects are ambitious: the most recent has been a string of nine EPs, each of which takes a different color as its name and explores genres from shoegaze to mild tones of folk.

Crescenzo recently talked to assistant Diversions editor Allison Hussey about “The Color Spectrum” and his future plans.

Diversions: What was your inspiration behind “The Color Spectrum” EPs? What really drew you to colors in particular?

Casey Crescenzo: It’s really hard for me to think of exactly, just because it happened so naturally and so quick. The idea just kind of came on and I saw it through. But realistically, the inspiration behind it was that I just really like to make music that represents something visual, and trying to accomplish what a good film can do, but with music.

This specific project was a really easy way to just kind of put a name on the inspiration of a song, or of an EP or of a group of songs and just kind of goes from there, and something that’s totally visual and trying to represent it in something that’s totally sonic.

I guess that was my real inspiration, wanting to represent it to the best of my ability from my point of view.

Dive: Do you plan on continuing with the story line from your earlier records, or are you trying to go in a different direction?

CC: I would say both. I plan on finishing it and doing it in decreasingly traditional ways, like Act IV, I would like to do something a little bit more special than I did with Act III, and so on and so on. But I would like to see that side of what I do take on sort of a different life and not really be the core of what the band is about. I look at it more now as a project, and I would still like to be making records — like non-concept-driven records.

So I kind of see myself doing them both simultaneously and just releasing one as I finish it and releasing the other as I finish it, not being so rigid about what kind of band or what kind of songwriter I am.

Dive: A lot of your writing is story-based, do you write any prose?

CC: No. I think that this is the way that’s most comfortable for me to express myself. I think that if I was to try doing that, I might not really know where to start because the music and lyrics and melody are so intertwined in my mind that it’s like I can’t really have one without the other, if that makes any sense.

Dive: You’ve kept working with some of the members of The Receiving End of Sirens on some level, do you have any plans to work with them as a band again?

CC: I would love it. I think everyone involved would absolutely love it. But I also think that it’s crazy how different of a time in our lives we all are — I don’t know if I said that right — but it’s crazy how different our lives are right now.

We used to be five or six guys with not much else going on and there was no consequence, and that music arose out of that sort of maximum angst, zero-consequence lifestyle. Now, we’ve all spent so much time away from it that it’s kind of like what I would imagine — because I was never really on the football team — but I would kind of imagine it like getting back up with your high school football team. You guys won the championship and all that, but you all have gone on to do so many other things. So it’s strange, but we’d all love to.

Everyone involved would absolutely love to, it’s just hard to figure out. But I know that every couple of weeks, we’re talking to each other and trying to figure something out. If it’s ever possible at all, there won’t be any personal road blocks standing in the way. It’s all logistical road blocks at this point.