“…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…”
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 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…”
In the studio with Atli Örvarsson
“… I find that ideas need time to mature, or perhaps it’s my perception and experiencing the ideas that need time…”
In the studio with Christine Ott
“Some ideas slip away, like beautiful shooting stars. Others, by dint of playing them, begin to structure themselves. But there are no rules…”
In the studio with Hugar
“… we like to try to make acoustic instruments sound like they are electronic and electronic instruments sound like they are acoustic…”
Sound thinking with Arovane
I catch up with Uwe Zahn and chat about his sound design, advanced synthesis, and favorite software.
In the studio with Stephan Moccio
“My pianos will always be my favorite piece of hardware. They are the most complex, honest, and imaginative gear in my wheel barrel.”
In the studio with Nicolas Bougaïeff
Thoughts on sound design in textural, spectral and functional phases; on metric modulations and polytemporal ideas; and on dance music tribalism.
In the studio with David Toop
David Toop is an English musician, author, and professor of audio culture and improvisation.
In the studio with Robin Rimbaud
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“…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…”