Peter Knight
The Softened Shore
“… an exercise in reflective restraint, dreamy atmospherics, ebbing dynamics, and divine textures…”
“… an exercise in reflective restraint, dreamy atmospherics, ebbing dynamics, and divine textures…”
“… I don’t distinguish so much between Techno and Ambient. For me, it’s the same: a soundtrack to special moments…”
“… the sonic equivalent of dust motes floating in a sunbeam…”
“… the music is a reflection of this artist’s personal journey through isolation, loss, and, ultimately, destiny…”
“… I do not have a concrete strategy. I would say it is more philosophy. I try to avoid too much knowledge; that way, I can keep up a playful approach…”
“… I really embrace the warbly unsteadiness of tapes, the intentional sound degradation, and focus on deeply textural stuff…”
“… sometimes all these memories are captured with a photograph, and sometimes we can capture them with music…”
“… generative shapes morph effortlessly into particle-based metaverse versions of the band members themselves…”
“… the possibilities of being outside being, and in the absence of elsewhere finding ourselves, whenever we are…”
In this episode, Matt Emery chats with the Australian talented composer and pianist, Sophie Hutchings