Michael Tippett Quotes

One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.

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

For my second record I had gotten ProTools (program) and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

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

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

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

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

When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

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.

When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.

I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn't get the sounds I wanted out of the piano.

When I wasn't working, I was learning how to use production software on YouTube and making music.

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

There is nothing wrong in electronic music or synthesised music.

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.