“The album would not exist, really, without convert to harmony […] This system lets you produce a kind of trace, and its unreliability gives you this funny little grit of chaos that you can use to grow something cool.”
“I developed this system of taking samples of already existing components and extracting them from—putting them out of sync with the track and then doctoring them externally through other boxes, maybe changing them to slow them down, and if I hit on something special then I go back in and find a spot for that special sound back into the track.”
“We build systems because it’s the most instinctive way of connecting things we invent. These systems do not produce a specific genre of music, they host modules, and manage all the protocols that allow them to communicate with each other. If we want to change the protocol, we have to enlarge the system.”
“I try to avoid building complex systems and instead try and get complex results from simple systems.”
Rrose
“I used to love spending time treating every single instrument. At one point, I created a diagram of a perfect system, which was a grid-like snare, bass drum, hi–hat on one side and then on the other side I would have reverb, flange, delay, compression and then I would put one to the other.”
“I like to collect sounds from all of these disparate sources and put them into a system that I’ve developed in Ableton [Live]. That involves making my own instrument racks and inputs and processing sound sources through them to develop textures that can be recognized as my signature sound.”
“I’m always looking for a system that’s partly generative and that’s partly performative.”
Max Cooper
“…the beauty of this system is that it helps me to forget what I’m doing. It feels like an opening to curiosity and discovery, so it’s not that I want the computer to help me to write music, it’s more to do with creating an environment where music can happen.”
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