Flume Quotes

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.

And EDM music grabbed my ear and got my attention and I started realizing that the computer was, in the same way that the saxophone was invented in the late 1800s and guitar in the 1930s, an instrument.

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

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

Most of today's music is done electronically.

It's 2013, and you can make music anywhere. We've got laptops.

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

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

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

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

I produce electronic kind of music, like EDM kind of stuff.

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

When I write for an album, I'll always have about 30 different types of instrument around me. I set them up in a small room with my computer running GarageBand, which is always set to record.

I think making electronic music isn't much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It's a creative process, and it's an art form.

I love 808s - not only the Auto-Tune but just, in general, the embrace of a kind of digital style of working.