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I’ve made my most horrible inhuman tendencies work for me.

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Oneohtrix Point Never is total freedom to do what I think is right.

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The way I think about things or hear things in my head is actually much closer to acoustic instruments. I don’t have weird synthesized fantasy of music in my head.

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John Martin was a great, complex folk singer, and later on, his music became more and more melancholic as he went through a separation with his wife.

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I love Ableton’s vocoder and Operator for basic side subs and general low-end.

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I’m down for indefinitely chilling as long as I’m not self-aware during it. That seems like it could be torture on some level but a lot of people pray for that so who knows.

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I have a hard time making a linear-idea song, because that’s not the way my thoughts work.

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Thrillers rely on certain archetypes and our familiarity with them is quietly driving all of the tension. So it becomes an interesting challenge from the score perspective, to enhance that tension without being noticed, just like those archetypes.

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Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It’s not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.

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I don’t like straightforward drum sounds and hate snares; can’t stand them.

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I’m like soft Ray Manzarek. I think of the keyboard as almost like a bass or a lead.

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To me everything is a material, and everything is subject to change. When I work with found sounds, I’m trying to figure out how do I make this come from me?

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O.P.N. has always been about reaching for some kind of liminal state in which opposing aesthetic forces become entangled and confused and equal.

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When people talk about how parameters can generate really good work, there’s no better example than working within a genre in film. That’s like the ultimate parameter.

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To me, ‘Garden of Delete‘ is a way of describing the idea that good things can bloom out of a negative situation. All the traumatic experiences I had during puberty, ugly memories and ugly thoughts in general can yield something good, like a record or whatever.

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Yeah, I guess generally I don’t want things ever to be easy. While there’s some danger of doing something that loses your personal stamp on things, I’d rather take the chance of doing that and do something slightly uncomfortable or hard for myself.

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Eccojams are a very simple exercise where I just take music I like, and I loop up a segment, slow it down, and put a bunch of echo on it – just to placate my desire to hear things I like without things I don’t.

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All of those 10cc ‘Not in Love’-type synthetic choir sounds on ‘Replica‘ are all from the Omnisphere. We used a lot of that.

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I love seeing Tim Hecker perform because the experience truly shakes me.

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Far Behind’ is a single from Candlebox’s self-titled record from 1993. The record came out on Madonna‘s Maverick imprint and went quadruple platinum, regardless of how much it sucked.

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All my collaborators unilaterally said that I need to just stay on one idea for longer. And of course I understand that. I like to switch gears a lot, and I like this kind of sloppy attitude.

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I’m predisposed to believe we live in a complicated, enmeshed reality. There’s no authentic or organic.

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I think nostalgia used purely for the sake of emotional reminiscing is extremely boring.

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You look at somebody like Thurston Moore. Is he a noise dude? A punky dude? Is he a free jazz dude? He’s a stimulation chaser, and I relate to that.

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I had it calcified inside me that that was the ultimate state of composing. Being Brian Wilson. Being simultaneously a genius and sort of lost at sea – not really knowing what you‘re doing but reaching for the stars.

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Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don’t exist.

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I like explication of ideas, even if I’m wrong or even if it’s a struggle or if it’s a work in progress.

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I love thinking of music of this way to access some kind of illogical realm filled with all kinds of aberrations and weird stuff. It’s not implicit in music to have a story, so it creates this incredible potential for vague stories.

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I loved Alva Noto’s ‘Xerrox, Vol. 3’ a lot. It might be my favorite of his records. I must admit, I was bummed to see him say he was surprised by how emotional the record came out, as if he was ashamed. But there’s something perfect about that.

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As a movie fan, I remember Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence Bender and the sort of energy around ‘Reservoir Dogs,’ and the jump from ‘Reservoir Dogs’ to ‘Pulp Fiction,’ and how everybody was stoked on Quentin’s career.

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I was born in ’82 and there were these bizarre wars, explained through mass media in ways that made no sense. I remember watching the Gulf War through night vision. That was sold and propagated as a showbusiness moment for the news.

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There are so many things that interest me more than standing on the stage of my own obsessions.

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My friend and I were in a band together and we used to always refer it it as ‘floor-core,’ meaning that we would sit on the floor and play stuff.

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My friends and I have often discussed the plausibility of a connection between qualitatively bad music and quantifiably successful music, often citing the example of Candlebox and their paradoxical influence on culture.

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Before puberty, it seems like I was more or less smiling a lot. I was really outgoing and wanted to have a happy life.

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Yeah, I tend to tinker with things that I love. It’s habitual.

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Especially in repetitive music, to make a long piece of music you have to be extremely skilled in your sleight of hand. Just to make long form music it’s very difficult and you really have to consider what you’re putting someone through.

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I really love Glasgow. It reminds me of Boston in parts.

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I was never totally sold on this idea that I’m just a musician. I wanted to be the Tim Burton of music.

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The promotional cycle‘s this staging area for failure. I hate it! Why bother when everyone‘s either gonna steal the album or copy it?

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Nothing‘s ever easy about composing for other people’s projects, but I like it. I’ve been lucky to have worked with adventurous directors who trust me.

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I’ve lost so many gigs composing commercial or television music because I can’t repress my inclination to work against conventions.

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Film work can be anything from just really hard and stressful and you’re subjected to really weird deadlines to really draconian and weird and disconnected. You’re working in service of the thing, and that can be really amazing for everyone involved, or be kind of just a waste of time.

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I need weird breakages to happen for music to feel true to life, and I think that also applies to good film scores.

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The films of Gregg Araki may not be classified as horror, but they have been known to horrify viewers.

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That idea of being so sure of what has happened, and what will happen, is the most idiotic human thing that anyone can do.

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It’s sad to me that the main stage of history is a story of how we became this visually obsessed, extremely narcissistic, extremely concerned about image, culture. At least in the West.

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Music that is considered minimalism – or post-minimalism music in general – things of that nature or that come from that tradition, or even drone, or non-western music, have a more subtle and more open-ended verticality to them that allows for your own mind and body to be involved.

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I’m super into dudes like Megazord, Jon Rafman, Rasmus Emanuel Svensson, Tabor Robak, and Michael Willis to name a few.

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I really don’t care if anyone thinks I’m special or not, I just want to be able to live my life without thinking about money all the time, or where I’m going to get it.

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I saw Double Leopards play at my school and realized there were other ways to approach noisy music that weren’t necessarily aggressive. That became a very important concept for me as a musician. I don’t think I would have been that interested in creating and performing my own music if it wasn’t for this group.

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For so many people, it’s very hard to feel okay with success, because success is not cool. It supposedly tarnishes your thing; it ruins little pockets of scenes and the self-importance that comes from thinking you’re the only people in your town that are doing something.

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Film scores are complicated puzzles that you need to figure out and solve very quickly, or else you’re basically fired. You’re hired to enhance the film and you only have a couple tries to prove that you are capable of that task. I can keep trying to enhance my album ad infinitum.

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I can’t tell you how much more important watching ‘Hellraiser’ is to my music than listening to a Milton Babbitt piece or something.

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While I absolutely love a great drummer and get tunnel vision listening to drums at a show, a lot of the time I feel like drum machine-driven music tethers you to a genre.

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Generally my response to seeing something really symmetrical and perfect is… it’s the scene with Jack Nicholson’s Joker in the first ‘Batman,’ the museum scene. Him just spray-painting the Mona Lisa, and whatever, with his goons.

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I wasn’t always totally interested solely in music as a sort of visceral expression of people in unison and synchronized, a federated expression of a group of people. I loved it as a wallflower, as a fan, but when I was in it, I always felt like I wasn’t built for it.

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Growing up, I wanted to write films and make films. Even as I took this detour and stayed in the music world, I still think in terms of ‘What is in this room? What is the shot? Who are the characters? What is the conversation here?’ My sense of pacing is very filmlike, it’s not musical.

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I just like cliches. I like tvtropes.com. It’s pretty much my bible.

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The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.

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