Mike Gordon Quotes

My first bit of gear was a Roland JV-1010 sound module. I used to hammer the hell out of that.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

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

I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.

Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

It's great if you can afford to carry a string section on the road with you, but most people are used to the idea of just a keyboard player creating those string sounds.

I got on a bit of a rollercoaster looking into how Herbie Hancock used to make his tunes, and I remember a picture of Jean-Michel Jarre at one of his concerts and seeing the Memorymoog. When I heard the sound it I was like, 'Arrrgh, I really need that.'

I play keyboards and Pro Tools, if you want to look at it as an instrument.

A young musician needs a powerful laptop and a good analogue synthesiser.

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.

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

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

I've always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

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

I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house.

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.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.

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've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.