If I’m not using something, I tend to sell it and move on, so I’m not too sentimental about hardware synths. Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote
I love Ableton’s vocoder and Operator for basic side subs and general low-end. Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote
The thing that I’ve always been a little bit jealous of is a complete, a total giving to one form, like a genre, and just a mastery of it. My thing is very different. It’s a complete embrace of something, but I’ve never been able to say, ‘I believe in this.’ The only thing I believe in is that I’m in this perpetual state of disbelief. Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote
I don’t like straightforward drum sounds and hate snares; can’t stand them. Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote
When I make music I try to be as honest as I can to how I experience the world. Like how you arrange a piece of music formally. I tend to observe a lot of chaos or whatever, the fragmentation and melancholy. That’s the filter I synthesize my world view with. If I didn’t formally have that chaos and it was really linear, it would make my skin crawl. Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote
I think I’m a person that’s very pessimistic about, like I’m not a luddite but I don’t think we need to crack the code of technology and bring forth a future techno utopia. Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote
I’m not much of a crier, actually. You know, I tend to cry and get sappy on planes. Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote