Database: Aphex Twin On Working Out New Musical Languages And Reconfiguring The Brain

“I work intuitively. I actually prefer it if I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. If you’ve got an equal temperament piano keyboard, then you know what you’re going to get if you play certain chords. But I actually like it if you don’t know where the notes are, because then you do it intuitively. You’re working out a new language, basically. New rules. And when you get new rules that work, you’re changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to deal with it.”

Richard James (aka Aphex Twin)

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2 responses to “Database: Aphex Twin On Working Out New Musical Languages And Reconfiguring The Brain”

  1. Matthew Solouki Avatar
    Matthew Solouki

    His music rarely has artistic appeal probably because of that being not correct and even disturbing

  2. Rarely has artistic appeal? Even though some of his work is considered some of the best electronic music ever created? Go listen to Selected Ambient Works 85-92 and tell me it’s “disturbing”

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