Synth Quotes Archive - Page 2 of 3 - MESS Ltd

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

MESSNovember 20, 2022

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

MESSNovember 20, 2022

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears

MESSNovember 20, 2022

You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it’s nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds; you play it backwards; you add it to itself over and over again. You adjust filters, echoes, acoustic qualities…you produce a vast and subtle symphony. It’s a sort of modern magic. We think there’s something in it. Some musicians believe it may become an art form in its own right.

MESSNovember 20, 2022

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 of one’s furniture. It’s an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

MESSNovember 20, 2022

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

MESSNovember 20, 2022

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.

MESSNovember 20, 2022

I realised that success and pure creativity are not very compatible. The more successful you become, the more you become a product of something that generates money. Instead of being able to move forward freely and do what you really wish, you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.

MESSNovember 20, 2022

Music dominates the universe. It is the prime force. It has given shape to space.

MESSNovember 20, 2022

Success is sweet and treacherous.

MESSNovember 20, 2022

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