Synth Quotes Archive - MESS Ltd

When a certain piece of music penetrates a person, a resonance is set in motion and an inner voice says: “I like this resonance. It elevates me. It develops hitherto unknown possibilities in me. I don’t recognize myself. This is very interesting.

Membership and Engagement CoordinatorNovember 20, 2022

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

Membership and Engagement CoordinatorNovember 20, 2022

Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn’t reach their soul anymore.

Membership and Engagement CoordinatorNovember 20, 2022

When I finally bought one, the Buchla was my only piece of furniture. I lived with that thing. It was my boyfriend! I thought there was something wrong with me, because I was in love with a machine

Membership and Engagement CoordinatorNovember 20, 2022

There’s something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It’s a language. This is a new language.

Membership and Engagement CoordinatorNovember 20, 2022

I think for me, I had a long-standing desire to orchestrate the sunrise, and never came up with the right thing on piano. So at a certain moment, I had the revelation that the whole thing would be electronic, not traditional acoustic.

Membership and Engagement CoordinatorNovember 20, 2022

It’s best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.

Membership and Engagement CoordinatorNovember 20, 2022

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

Membership and Engagement CoordinatorNovember 20, 2022

I’m very interested in vertical space.I want the players to listen to their sound in such a way that they hear the complete sound they make before they make another one. So that means that they hear the tail of the sound. Because of the reverberation, there’s always more to the sound than just the sound.

Membership and Engagement CoordinatorNovember 20, 2022

Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding – making sounds.

Membership and Engagement CoordinatorNovember 20, 2022

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