“… music is medicine for both the artist and the audience…”
Interviews
Since 2014, our select artists have been sharing their studio setup, working environment, favourite hardware, the process of composition and much more… Look inside!!!
In the studio with Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres
“… finding sounds is like looking through a jumble sale and finding something that really catches your senses until you become slightly obsessed with it…”
In the studio with Biosphere
“… I often start a composition by creating a theme with an acoustic-digital filtered sound. Over this, I often try to integrate pure synthetic sounds from a synthesizer…”
In the studio with Martyn Heyne
“… all the great recordings were made with what people had available to them at the time, and Picasso already knew: when I haven’t got any blue, I use red…”
In the studio with Heathered Pearls
“… the stigma of a performance, especially from on-stage or even from the educational theatre side, has this theme that I can’t relate to…”
In the studio with Pole
“… I put a lot of focus into the sound design, atmospheric composition, and structure, […] it is the one formula that I use to make my sound audible…”
In the studio with Snorri Hallgrímsson
“My compositions are bound by the parameters of where they were created. And so to prevent my creativity from stagnating, I need to change those parameters every now and then…”
In the studio with Henrik Lindstrand
“…I find it very useful to invite people to the studio, to listen ‘through their ears’… even without saying a word, you can tell if a piece works or not just by listening together with someone…”
In the studio with Gabríel Ólafs
“… I don’t feel too bothered about complexity, context, relevance, or reinventing the wheel in music…”
In the studio with Keith Kenniff
“… my whole aim is to try and work as quickly as I can before my critical brain can catch up and force me to overanalyze…”