Studios

“…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…”

“… I don’t feel too bothered about complexity, context, relevance, or reinventing the wheel in music…”

“… I find that ideas need time to mature, or perhaps it’s my perception and experiencing the ideas that need time…”

“Some ideas slip away, like beautiful shooting stars. Others, by dint of playing them, begin to structure themselves. But there are no rules…”

“… we like to try to make acoustic instruments sound like they are electronic and electronic instruments sound like they are acoustic…”

I catch up with Uwe Zahn and chat about his sound design, advanced synthesis, and favorite software.

“My pianos will always be my favorite piece of hardware. They are the most complex, honest, and imaginative gear in my wheel barrel.”

Thoughts on sound design in textural, spectral and functional phases; on metric modulations and polytemporal ideas; and on dance music tribalism.

David Toop is an English musician, author, and professor of audio culture and improvisation.

“…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…”