Occupation: Record Producer Birth: 1990
There has to be an entry point to learn about myself, or an idea I've never tried, because then I can try on a new skin and see the world through a d….
A few years ago, I had an interest in making things that felt more like "pieces." That was when I was making a lot of stuff that you could call beats….
It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words in order to go deep into the practice of makin….
There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing a….
It's been a growth process for each of us to understand why we find certain things beautiful. And if we do find something beautiful, we'll chase it, ….
If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels right. It happens very quickly. And if I've been maki….
You might be raised as a boy in a very conservative environment and then somehow, at some point, there was a side of me that felt really powerful and….
First thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music..
Someone can only be vampiric if you allow it..
I have an interesting relationship with my voice. I give myself tons of freedom in how to engage with my voice because I respect it a lot..
Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious..
I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while making music. If I crave a frequency in t….
I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that….
With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time..
I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head..
When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making..
Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety - these big themes are inside us….
You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive..
When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot of confidence and nourishment and enc….
A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye..
I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's….