In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
Brian Eno
I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.
Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the... →
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there... →
With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part... →
When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is... →
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges... →
A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn't. Like East... →