“I think there’s a very fine distinction between limitation and hindrance. When I started, it wasn’t that I was limited in what I could do, it’s more that I just didn’t know certain ideas could be done in certain ways. So I think within those limitations you have to actively look for ways to make something new out of it. I can say, with what I’ve learned about processing breakbeats, and trying to make digital-sounding plug-ins and software sound a bit more rounded and analogue, that there’s a lot of nuance in it, that I’ve had to actively dig for in these years. It’s been such a big focus of mine as a computer musician to really try and retrace the steps in how a lot of hardware produced music is made.
“It’s all about having the drive and also having the ability to renew your knowledge and expand what you think is possible within your software. Otherwise, you can put yourself in a limitation, using the same pieces of software. I feel like if you aren’t carrying the right mindset, you just end up making the same sort of stuff over and over again, which is something I actively sought hard to break away from.”
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