Thomas Bangalter Quotes

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

I was using computers for music in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and people didn't get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

I grew up around electronic instruments. To me, the turntable is an electronic device. At the same time, I had access to drum machines and keyboards through my uncle; then track recorders into computers. At an early age, I was messing with computers more than most hip-hop musicians.

There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.

Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

In 1983, before computers came along, it wasn't easy to do electronic basslines and rhythms.

If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.

I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs.

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

With my projects, I really like the extreme high-tech stuff, but I also like the other end, the acoustic things. So it seems like those meet on an iPad, where you make shapes but the sounds coming out of it are really acoustic.