Yael Naim Quotes

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'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!

What it is now is basically, I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac. And how it works is, say - I have a program called 'Ableton Live.' And, you know, you'll open it up, and it's just blank. There's nothing there. And then you start.

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 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.

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.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

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

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

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

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.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

Ideally, the music composed these days should sound much better because of the technology, right? But that's not the fact. The sounds that you hear out of technological recording are programmed sounds coming out of a computer.

There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

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

I was given this music programme called Cubase, one of the first multi-layering programmes, when I was seven, and I graduated to Logica at 11, and that became my primary instrument.

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

My journey began when I found out about YouTube on how do you make music, and from that, people started explaining me how I had to do it.

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

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

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

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

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

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