Tycho Quotes

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

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.

A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

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

I like working with modern sounds in the studio as much as I'm happy to work with a basic rock n' roll format.

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.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

You have to have a certain amount of grit in your sound, and having real synths and talking certain elements outside your computer can help with this.

We spend a lot of time with MIDI keyboards and various processors, and we just figure it out. And all those things you hear in our songs work as submelodies and countermelodies, and everything has to fit.

I was born in the overdub years. I wish there wasn't such a thing as a multitrack tape player, because what you heard would be the record.

Throughout college I was getting better and better at making recordings, producing songs, making different kinds of beats.

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.

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

What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.

My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.

I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.

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.

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I'm writing to his beats.

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.