“… 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…”
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 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…”
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.