Interview with Lawrence English
On A Young Person’s Guide To Hustling
The updated version of this guide is appearing nine years since its original publication. While you …
The updated version of this guide is appearing nine years since its original publication. While you …
“…the freedom of expression and thought within the modular system is very appealing, where it’s very much about the moment, the response in real-time…”
“… the clearer you line out your musical vision in advance, the easier will it be to get to the result…”
“I have a fondness for strange old music from the early years of the shellac… I just love tossing those old records in a pile on the carpet as I play them… it’s a deliciously irresponsible feeling!”
“… too much gear usually leads to boring ideas, while many good ideas reduce the amount of equipment…”
“… I looked at my shelving unit the other day and thought I could hollow out the middle row, be laid to rest in it with the records and they could just nail wood over the top and I could go into the ground with it all…”
“… when there’s a real beating heart behind what’s played with, there’s a form of emotion conveyed and never played the same way twice…”
Visit an incredibly gorgeous studio of this Argentinian-born, Berlin-based composer.
Today we’re visiting with Janus Rasmussen, one half of Kiasmos [the other being Ólafur Arnalds], in his Iceland studio
“…I like to be submerged in sounds and the inspiration comes from that […] I always see instruments as sounds instead of instruments…”
“… it was the long, empty days pulling a sled across the ice that had given us all lots of time to think about our lives back home…”