Flume Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

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.

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

On Christmas, when I was 13, my mom got me my first laptop. I downloaded it, FruityLoops, cause I had heard about it, and started messing around.

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

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

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.

Everyone's on their phones, and everyone makes things with the aid of some electronic tool. Electronic music is no different.

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.

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.

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.

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

I think the indie-rock world is very creative. They're always looking for something new, and I think of all the instruments we have in the world, the ones that are the most creative and interesting are the electronic ones. There are so many sounds and plug-ins you can use.

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.

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

With my projects, I really like the extreme high-tech stuff, but I also like the other end, the acoustic things. So it seems like those meet on an iPad, where you make shapes but the sounds coming out of it are really acoustic.

I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.