“I’m not into multitracking, I like things to be live. I record everything live, and I’m not bothered about saving sounds. In fact, I erase them on purpose. I have a library of stuff, but it’s stuff I haven’t used yet. And also I don’t want to use a sound I’ve used before. There’s an infinite number of sounds in the world, and it’s a waste to use the same sound twice.”
“My biggest buzz is taking a sound and turning it into something new. Or taking anything and making it into something specific […] So if I get a 9lb sledgehammer and smash it into a galvanized plate, I can make a string sound from it, rather than a snare. I like not to do the obvious.”
“When I started analysing sounds, I was kind of disappointed. I always thought a bird was a bird, and a car was a car, and these were sounds to be explored. But you can reduce a bird to a sine wave when you sample it, and to me that was a shock. All sounds break down into really simple things. You’d think a sine wave is a sine wave, and a bird is a bird, but they’re not: they’re the same sound, but controlled differently. Once I’d got that idea into my head, that a lot of sounds are pretty fundamental, I could concentrate on the subtle differences.”
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