K.Zia Shares her Creative Process
"Sometimes, I disconnect from physical reality. It’s like I'm channelling things."
The Lumineers Share their Creative Process
"You need to feel those tears from another to be sure a song is done."
Ill Considered Share their Creative Process
"Making music is like speaking to each other. That's how natural it feels."
Les Mamans Du Congo about Women's Rights and the Need to Fight
"Commitment is a very important act. It allows you to defend noble causes."
Eddie Prévost about Originality
"To many, music does not mean anything! This is unacceptable."
Avision about Production, Technology and Creativity
"I never like to build an archive of projects. To me it is one of the worst habits in music production."
thisquietarmy and N Share their Creative Process
"If I switch on the amps and hear the hum, I am in."
Sea Wolf Shares his Creative Process
"I sometimes think being a spiritual person would help me get in the zone."
Boom Dice about Production, Technology and Creativity
"The easier technology makes music making, the more excited I get about the possibilities."
Fifteen Questions Interview with The Living Earth Show
Amplified Jell-O and an Albatross Feather
Satoko Fujii on the Art of Collaboration
"Music can get us to a place where we all agree – no need to talk."
Thomas Hoffknecht about Production, Technology and Creativity
"I hardly ever have ideas in advance. I create everything from scratch."
Jonny Wildey Shares his Creative Process
"I had this romantic notion of renting a shack in the countryside to work on my masterpiece. I now think that is ridiculous."
Lilly Hiatt Shares her Creative Process
"Simple or complex - I just want to believe what I’m hearing."
DJ Harrison about Production, Technology and Creativity
"The microphone has changed the way I make music."
Pepe Deluxé Share their Creative Process
"If we ever know what we’re gonna do next, that's the day we should call it quits."
Abraham Fogg Share their Creative Process
"We can work non-stop for 10 hours without feeling any need to drink or eat. It’s not very healthy."
Boubacar Cissokho Shares his Creative Process
"To give the world what it needs, we kill ourselves."
Julien Delfaud aka I Hear Disorder about Production, Technology and Creativity
"House music is one good idea that you make last for 7 minutes."
Ladyhawke Shares her Creative Process
"I really enjoy writing from absolute nothing. No concrete idea."
The Takatsuki Trio Quartett about Improvisation
"Even choosing to ignore what the others are doing is relating to the music."
Clinic Share their Creative Process
"It doesn’t feel right to plan too much. It takes the fun out of things."
Olivia Block Talks Sound
"The purpose of music is to tell you how to feel in your world. Field recordings don’t necessarily have those assignments."
Mareike Wiening about Drumming, Doubts, and the Disappearance of Education
"It’s a path with unpredictable situations."
Dustin Zahn about Production, Technology and Creativity
"Do we REALLY need machines with opinions? We already trained these robot assholes to do parkour."
Ferhat about Turkey and the Role of Music in Repressive Regimes
"Nobody wants to shoot my next video. Artists, writers, the press, the public – they're all scared."
Christopher Chaplin Shares his Creative Process
"When creating, a story is being told to the creator - not by the creator."
James Davidson of Subjective & Ulterior Motive about Creativity & Technology
"When you have a vision, try as hard as you can to stick to it."
Wadada Leo Smith Shares his Creative Process
"Music comes from another place. That’s why it is so vital."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Toto Chiavetta
Monotony at the Core, Variety towards the Surface
Lawrence English Talks Sound
"Sound resonates materials - and that resonation gives them life."
Malcolm Jiyane about Improvisation
"Improvisation is expression. It’s almost like being in heaven — it’s total freedom."
Beth Lydi about Production, Technology and Creativity
"I try not to have too many ideas before entering the studio. It's frustrating to recreate something from my mind."
Lindy-Fay Hella on Healing with Music
“It is possible to create a good feeling in the body through placement of sound and your own thoughts.”
Luca Durán about Production, Technology and Creativity
"I like the idea of not really knowing what just happened."
Jamie Stewart of XIU XIU & HEXA Talks Sound
"Little else even approaches the weight and base of sound. I am obsessed, moved and driven by it."
Alan Clark (Dire Straits) Shares his Creative Process
"Keeping fit is important to me because feeling good is essential. Unless you’re writing the blues."
David Behrman Shares his Creative Process
"In the old days an artist would use her skillset for her entire life. Not so any more."
Purple Disco Machine Shares his Creative Process
"My whole studio is built like a wooden, purple coloured space. I need that to be creative."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Jonny Wildey fka Alphabets Heaven
Specific Rooms in Non-Existent Spaces
Kiesza Shares her Creative Process
"I often begin with nothing and let the song unfold on its own."
Gagi Petrovic talks Sound
"I am curious about stimulating the brain with music that is not audible. Are we still ‘hearing sounds’?"
Tobias Freund about Production, Technology and Creativity
"I always like to be surrounded by my machines."
Hayden Thorpe Shares his Creative Process
"Creating music is a regular, methodical searching for wonder."
Someone (aka Tessa Rose Jackson) Shares her Creative Process
"Oh. Did I just say that? Okay, I guess that’s how I feel."
Max Petersen Shares his Creative Process
"I have a lot of ideals. But being creative is not one of them."
Paul Schütze On the Creative Process
“We have woven a kind of privilege into the idea of art making that is nonsense”
Michael Robinson about La Monte Young, Tuning & Indian Classical Music
"Jazz and Indian classical music superseded Western classical music - intellectually, expressively, technically, and spiritually."
Hackedepicciotto Share their Creative Process
"We are spiritual beings with a human experience - not the other way around."
Harry Romero about Production, Technology and Creativity
"At the end of the day I am still a student."
Blockhead about Beats and Production
"I’ve been doing this so long that the idea of “inspiration” doesn’t really exist."
Parallells talk Sound
"It's very hard to make the sound of a dental surgery appealing. But it's a challenge we are willing to take."
Larry Goldings Shares his Creative Process
"If only I could approach music in the same way as I approach making a cup of coffee."
O Yuki Conjugate Share their Creative Process
"I’ve no idea how something will end when I start. I don't want to have."
Almeeva about Production, Technology and Creativity
"Technology is meant to make sounds unique and personal. Sometimes, that means destroying a song."
Philippe Petit Shares his Creative Process
"In my daily life, I have been educated and thus I am polite. Musically I can be the opposite."
Sophie Zelmani Shares her Creative Process
"I know I write in a simple way. But every word is there for a reason."
Barry Adamson (Magazine, Nick Cave) Shares his Creative Process
"An idea comes to you as you wander the earth with a metaphorical butterfly net."
Matt Robidoux about Improvisation
"Sometimes the ideal state and the creative thing are just taking a few deep breaths."
John DeNicola Shares his Creative Process
"Hungry Eyes was written in 10 minutes. It was just a flow that came through me."
Shadient about Depression and the Pleasure of Fucking Up Completely
"I damaged the art to make the pain feel tangible. I'd shake the tape machine as it recorded."
Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) shares his Creative Process
"I have one ritual only: My creative space needs to be clean."
Tim Feeney and Vic Rawlings about Improvisation
"I like to be a little bit hungry - and just a little bit physically uncomfortable."
Squire about Production, Technology and Creativity
"I worry about the day that technology will understand more than our human minds."
Marja Mortensson Shares her Creative Process
"Yoik is giving me a new view of the world. It is as old as human beings are."
Marcus Gad Shares his Creative Process
"My inspiration is my life. I have to live it to sing it, sing it to live it."
Lena Platonos Shares her Creative Process
"I surrender myself to the imbalance of luck. Nothing is accidental."
Charles Richard about the Sounds of Rocks, City Acoustics and Silence
"By making cities quieter, they become more acoustically boring. A little noise is good for us."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans, Herbie Hancock)
Patience of a Hunter
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Trevor Dunn on Improvisation
"In group settings, it’s good to adapt and adjust, but above all, be yourself.'
Maya Jane Coles Shares her Creative Process
"I prefer not to have too much of a concrete idea before starting."
Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails) about Creativity, Studio Work and Bliss through Music
"I think I'd get bored of doing one thing only."
Latroit Shares his Creative Process
"You hope that god walks in with an idea. If that doesn’t happen, you make something up anyway."
Frank Arvonio about Production, Technology and Creativity
"The element of surprise is crucial."
Esther Venrooy talks Sound
"I feel a strong desire to become an alchemist - making an object from sound."
Vels Trio Share their Creative Process
"We’re trying to document a time in our lives, rather than create a masterpiece."
Aki Onda about Improvisation
"Too often we just follow the playbook we are given and get lazy."
Manjul about the Natural and the Magical in Songwriting
"Even an instrumental piece must be guided by a subject, a title, or a chorus."
Taj Weekes Shares his Creative Process
"I don't need to be on a mountaintop for inspiration."
Wheez-ie about Production, Technology and Creativity
"Given the choice of paying the rent or being original, most will choose to get in line."
Rafael Leafar about Improvisation and Recording with Jeff Mills
"Human improvisation is the greatest synth modulation possible!"
Main(void) Shares his Creative Process
"If I knew it'd take me 20 versions to finish a track, I wouldn’t even start."
J-Fresh about Beats and Production
"Hip-hop, Garage, Grime - the whole essence is built on samples."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Theo Katsaounis of Hey!Tonal & Joan of Arc
Sit with the Pain
Fifteen Questions Interview with Dave Davison of Hey!Tonal and Maps & Atlases
Tell, don't Show
Stina Marie Claire aka Honeyblood Shares her Creative Process
"An earworm is a triumph - a euphoric state of being!"
Music and Identity with Colin Riley
"The way people relate to music stems initially from their social background and their upbringing."
Stephan Moccio Shares his Creative Process
"We have lost the ability to make decisive, strong choices in our art."
VITALIC about Production, Technology and Creativity
"I like music when it’s weird and poetic at the same time."
Vapors of Morphine Share their Creative Process
"A song is finished when I no longer hate it."
Porches Shares his Creative Process
"My perspective is: Half out of my body and half deep inside my brain."
CYRK About Technology, Production and Creativity
"We have a lot of "unfinished" projects. We somehow always want to start fresh."
Pokey LaFarge Shares his Creative Process
"What makes lyrics good? When I can know the person by the words they speak."
Myele Manzanza about Improvisation
"The better I get at life skills, the better my music becomes."
Marta Zapparoli Shares her Creative Process
"Without the outside world, I cannot create my music!"
Noizu about Production, Technology and Creativity
"All the important plugins exist already. They just aren't 100% yet."
Matthew Herbert Shares his Creative Process
"It always starts with an absence. And the question – why?"
Fifteen Questions Interview with Nadjib Ben Bella of Montparnasse Musique
Magic with any Method
Judith Hill Shares her Creative Process
"Music opens the portal to another dimension of spirituality."
Meta Dia Shares his Creative Process
"Life is a spinning vinyl record. Listen - and you'll hear it."
James Gillespie Shares his Creative Process
"I'll write one line and realise - wow. That's how I feel about that."
Factory Sequences about Production, Technology and Creativity
"If it sounds decent the next day, it’s a keeper! If not, then I bin it."
Keys N Krates about Beats and Production
"It’s all an experiment that you try to control. We are just passengers within."
Marja Ahti Talks Sound
"If I move the microphone only a tiny bit in one direction, everything's affected."
Luca Formentini about Creating Silence and Tapping into the Sonic Energy Field
"I don't want my music to engage your intelligence."
Matty Took of PLANET Shares his Creative Process
"Writing a piece of music is like splattering down all your feelings into sound."
Cluster Lizard about Production, Technology and Creativity
"If an AI isn't motivated by fame, greed, sex, and popularity – why would it develop creativity?"
Michael Rother about Production, Technology and Dreaming
"I Appreciate the Absence of Music a lot."
Pink Turns Blue Share their Creative Process
"A Good Song Connects your Soul to the Universe."
Gio About Fashion & Music
"Young blacks from the hood are often labelled as criminals. My dress sense is my way of breaking these stereotypes."
Nite Jewel Shares her Creative Process
"There is always a “I wish I had done this or that” for every album."
Jelly Crystal Shares his Creative Process
"I have never managed to make me a good cup of coffee. I guess that’s art too."
Brandon Lucas about controlling the Black narrative in dance music
"My music is a call to action. Black love is revolutionary."
Mara Simpson Shares her Creative Process
"Sometimes it’s only when a song is finished that I understand what it was trying to tell me."
Don McLean Shares his Creative Process
"American Pie had to be over 8 minutes long. I wasn’t finished telling the story."
Dances With White Girls about Fashion & Music
"Fashion exposes the lies of what you speak in your lyrics."
Odd Beholder about Identity, Discrimination and why Privilege sucks
"Having a privilege is benefitting from injustice."
Mitch Grassi of Messer & Pentatonix about Fashion & Music
"I want the experience to be a bit bombarding."
The Felice Brothers Share their Creative Process
"Writers want to think that their work is being dictated by a higher power. That's a symptom of egotism."
Martyna Poznańska talks Sound
"We're not better than other species inhabiting this place – we may even be worse."
Aisha Badru about Reforestation and Personal Responsibility
"You don't have to reach a million people. Start local. Start with you."
The Nu Deco Ensemble Share their Creative Process
"I like to put Easter eggs throughout the music."
Nikki Sheth about Field Recording and Building Sonic Panoramas
"Sound and field recording can one hundred percent change our perception of the world."
Matt Evans about Touchless Touch, Grief and Death
"I remember absence being something odd and impossible to handle. It didn’t feel real."
ATB about Production, Technology and Creativity
"AI will optimize some processes. But I prefer to do the job myself."
David Morales Shares his Creative Process
"Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys taught me about intelligent lyrics."
Jim O'Rourke about Improvisation
"Live, you are on the train, whether you want to be or not."
Billy Brett of Buck Gooter about Creating in the Face of Death
"All we have is now. You can’t take it with you after death."
Cochemea about Improvisation
"Once a space is populated with bodies, something else happens."
Jemma Woolmore talks Sound
"We need to be more careful about the effects of noise pollution on all life forms."
Sharif Sehnaoui of Karkhana about Improvisation
"In your early years of free improvising, you are not truly able to listen."
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe about Composing for Film
"It’s about understanding when to remove sound as much as it is to know when to have it in."
Steve Rodby (Pat Metheny Group) about Improvisation
"Playing improvised music is like taking a bath in the past, present and future."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Ester Poly
Searching, Finding, Losing, Searching, Finding, Losing
Fifteen Questions Interview with Anthony Moore (Slap Happy, Pink Floyd, Kevin Ayers)
Either and Both
Duane Pitre About Tuning Systems, Working with MAX & Music of the Spheres
"I like some order in my life. It helps the chaos in my brain."
Agoria about Infinite Remixes, Sound after Death & Audio Intimacy
"Living systems are more powerful than any artificial intelligence."
Cochemea About Identity, Indigenous Culture and Deep Listening
"Colonization severs cultural ties through oppression and violence."
Billy Martin of Martin, Medeski & Wood About Improvisation
"Every sound I make is a performance. No matter where I am."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Wolfgang Mitterer
You can pray in your church, but it is better to sing.
Graham Haynes About Improvisation
"You must be totally prepared. But you must also be empty."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Max Turnbull / Badge Epoch
A Primary Vessel for Consciousness
Ulrich Krieger About Alternative Tuning Systems
"Electronic tools will be the end of the traditional 12-tone equal system."
Ensemble Emoción About Creative Cosmopolitanism and Music as a Universal Language
"We see our different backgrounds as our super-power."
Andrew Shapiro About Minimalism, Mental Health and Mindfulness
"My life changed the second I walked in Philip Glass's door."
Master KG About Jerusalema, African Unity and Musical Activism
"Artists are in a unique position - they raise their voices and people will listen."
Rebecca Lenaerts Shares her Creative Process
‘Creation is bringing to the surface what already exists’
Picard Brothers About Limited Options, Technology and the Super AI
"If I were my computer I would ask for publishing rights."
Fifteen Questions Round Up Week 25
A Selection of the Week's Best Interviews + Reviews & Music
Fifteen Questions Interview with Robert Cox of Rimarimba and The Same
Make Noise, Mutate Music
Bushwacka About Helping Musicians Heal
"Being in the studio 80 hours a week affected my health, my relationships, my ability to think clearly."
El Buho About Identity, South American Inspiration and Global Community
"Music moves, it evolves, it is transformed. That's what makes it so rich."
Gerald Cleaver about Griots, Ghost Orbits and Modular Synthesis
"I felt I was hurtling through space uncontrollably."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Hprizm / High Priest (Antipop Consortium)
In a State of No Mind
Parra for Cuva About his Instrument Collection, Technology and AI
"Machines could come up with a new great song. But it wouldn’t be inventive."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Sara Oswald + Feldermelder
Sounds that Make Your Brain Tickle
Steven Weston About His Studio, Gear and AI
"A computer that never crashes, that would have the best impact for me."
Matt Bachmann about Life and Death
"I like the idea of some sort of energetic compost. But also, I don’t know and I enjoy not knowing."
Chris Connelly (Ministry, Revolting Cocks) Shares his Creative Process
Mystical and Awe-Inspiring, and Very, Very Personal
Alejandro Valdés About Identity, Roots and the New Cuban Flamenco
"Playing the bagpipes in flamenco drew a lot of attention."
Theresa Wong About Alternative Tuning Systems
"Pitch, tuning, and the sounds we create can effect the world around us."
Yussef Dayes about Body Rhythms, Metronomic Time and Family Ties
"I make sure every drum beat has purpose, power and life force."
Joshua Abrams (Natural Information Society, Mind Maintenance) Shares his Creative Process
Keep the Flow Going
Laura Masotto About the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis
"I cried. I was moved. I took some time to witness the pain."
Breakthrough Works: Ten City - "That's the way love is"
"It felt like we were sitting in a futuristic spaceship!"
The Twilite Tone about Sound as a Driving Force and Creative Clearing
"My Intention is to Inspire Freedom."
Fifteen Questions Round Up Week 22
A Selection of the Week's Best Interviews + Reviews & Music
Curses about Orwell's Predictions, Chemistry with Machines & Future Nostalgia
"Everything changed after I heard Suicide."
Robert Rich on Alternative Tuning Systems
"Let's not be fascists about who gets to sing a right or wrong note."
Jaberwocky about Gear, Technology and AI
"There hasn't been a major technologic revolution in music since the 2010s."
Fifteen Questions Round Up Week 21
A Selection of the Week's Best Interviews + Reviews & Music
Blood Cultures About Identity, Opressive Ideas and Manufactured Egos
"Ask yourself who you are and what you've done. Are you blameless?"
Rollo Armstrong of Faithless About Technology, AI and the Impact of Streaming
"Without technology, I am nothing."
Alex Patterson of The Orb on Sound, Field Recording and Frog Song
"It's been a very, very surreal ride for me."
Fabio Florido About Sound Healing and using Music Responsibly
"We are literally playing with people's cells and molecules!"
David Dornig of Dsilton on Alternative Tuning Systems
"I have to put in hundreds of hours just to make it sound okay."
Pixel Grip About Identity & Killing Your Old Self
"When someone really weird makes really good art, it’s suddenly cool to be like them."
Georg Vogel of Dsilton About Alternative Tuning Systems
"Your fingers need to learn almost every move from the beginning."
Curses about DJing
"I love the mystery of walking into a club and not knowing how the night will go."
Jochen Rueckert About Technology and Artificial Intelligence
"I doubt AI will offer much beyond saving time or small variations."
Hayden Chisholm About Alternative Tuning Systems
"In some music, you can hear the history of clashing empires."
Stephan Packe of LTO about Gear and Authorship
"I'm still waiting for a technology that enables us to create any sound simply by imagining it."
Angrusori About the Links between Norwegian Improv and Slovak Roma Songs
"Slovakian Roma music is like Lego blocks: It keeps shifting into infinite shapes."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Charlie Nieland (Debby Harry / Rufus Wainwright)
Step Into the Fire
Noah Pred About Challenging Power Structures with Music
"I get upset when I hear fans demand artists stay in their lane."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Christopher Bono of Nous Alpha & Ghost Against Ghost
Geometry in the Mind
Fifteen Questions Interview with Matt Walker (of1000faces, Morrissey, Smashing Pumpkins)
When it’s Time to Write, it’s Time to Write.
J. Peter Schwalm about Life, Death and the End of Beauty
"I've sometimes thought: Peter, this could be your last project."
Yuko Araki about Technology and Gear
"I'm very curious to see if I could make music with another me."
TRAX ONLY about Identity and the Queer Nightlife
"Identity as a social concept can be an exhausting spiral."
Malcolm Pardon about Death as a Companion
"These songs opened the door to my subconsciousness.“
Balmorhea about Climate Change and Feeding Activism with Emotions
"We fear the destruction of the natural world."
Sistanagila about an Israeli-Iranian Dialogue in Music
"What is the point of music if it doesn't give you hope?"
Wild Anima about Mantras, Healing and the Heart as an Oscillator
"The day we released the film, a volcano erupted in Iceland."
Zach Phillips About Life and Death
“The dead are always right, according to the proverb, but fundamentally they are always wrong."
Igliashon Jones of Cryptic Ruse About Alternative Tuning Systems
"It was like trying to imagine a color outside the visible spectrum."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Cathal Coughlan of Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions
Where Would We Be Without Pretence and Fakery?
Sinego on Shaping a New Identity for South American Music
"Bolero is the life-blood of our music culture."
Satori about Celebrating Cultural Diversity
"The Art is to Understand What a Sample is About."
Fred Hersch about being a spokesperson for artists with HIV/AIDS
"Those $25 contributions really add up."
Fifteen Questions Interview with The Anchoress (aka Catherine Anne Davies)
Creativity is a Habit
Fifteen Questions Interview with Colin Edwin of Porcupine Tree, Eternal Return & O.R.K.
Space for Failure
