Similar to cooking your own food: you get it *exactly* the way you like
it.
- Gio: of Makyo
The best part, for me, is that initial light that comes on when a new idea
presents itself. It's like I'm suddenly reminded that I'm an explorer as
well as a musician- it's time to find where this new path will take me.
- Jeff Pearce: ambient guitarist
It's the only way to hear the sounds that are floating in my head!
- Robert Rich:Soundscape Productions / Amoeba Music
It's a process of alchemy. It's good for spirit, mind and body.
- Nigel Ayers: of Nocturnal Emissions
I consider to be the process of creating and recording an album a work of
several phases. So each particular moment of working on a piece or an entire
album for that matter has something quite special and rewarding. But aside
from recording the first sounds which initiates a new album I still enjoy the
ritual of shaping the complete project at the very end when music and artwork
come together for a release.
And when a release is finally realized, holding the CD itself in my hands, I'm
joyful.
- Vidna Obmana: ambient artist
Pad, which is simple but contains different synth samples with a lot of
time to reach conclusion. Creating pad sound is like cooking soup, bolied for
many hours.
- Katsuya Hironaka: Electronician
___after my family looks like a sound had a thick time or liked that, i
grin for unapproved trickle to note but never backwards.
- Jon Sheffield: bedroom
producer
Back in the early 90's the Music came to us, like a boat it slowly arrived
and offered to take us on a journey. All we had to do was let go of our
worries and climb on. Now we've taken that trip we've arrived somewhere new,
a place we wouldn't have gotten to if not for that journey. The most amazing
opportunity, which has let us contact lots of artists and people all around
the world, play concerts in many other countries.
- Martin Franklin: of Tuu
I love the process of composing and recording...watching shapes emerge
and feeling the ideas brewing and bubbling around...trying this or that
and seeing what happens. At times I feel like a lightning rod conducting
creative energies from somewhere else, while at other points I feel like
an explorer, surprised by what lies around each corner, even when I have
an idea of what might appear.
- M. Bentley: the foundry
The possibility of creating a non-trainspottable transparent musical
piece. Heidegger speaks of the breakdown of equipment - when a tool
suddenly becomes unable to perform its task and calls attention to itself,
losing its transparency to become opaque - and to me, one of the most
likely ways in which a piece of electronic music can break down is the
course of transpotting of gear or of stock patches: all at once, the
piece closes as a transparent window (or even door) into another world and
becomes solid, as one knocks one's head upon the mundane mechanics of its
creation. As a musician it is easy for me to pick apart the manufacturing
process behind a piece, and the pieces with the strongest emotional and
transportive effects upon me are those seeming to come out of the void.
Having said that, however, I also must add that stock sounds may be used
creatively or even transcendently, with Anthony Manning's first album of
Roland R-8 music springing to mind here. And again, of all of Autechre's
unidentifiable sounds, I return most often to those on the first album,
where the Roland TR-606 appears quite identifiably to pulsate.
- Thermal: Boxman (hako otoko) label
There IS NO BEST PART. I don't like creating sounds. boring boring boring
I'll tweak sounds till I get what I want.
- lk: (audiochrom)
That's a difficult one to answer. Just about any part can be a
joy/pain to work on, it depends upon how well the project is going,
how easy it comes together. All that aside I would say that usually
the most satisfactory parts are the beginning -- the initial impetus
when the idea first comes to mind -- or alternatively the mixing
process at the very end when everything comes together and actually
works!
The 'why' is quite simple. So I can hear the type of music that I
desperately want to hear, which for some reason no one else has seen
fit to make yet.
- Loren Nerell: Ethno-musicologist
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