No one is mediating aesthetic choices on an OPN album other than myself. Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote
Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don’t exist. Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote
John Martin was a great, complex folk singer, and later on, his music became more and more melancholic as he went through a separation with his wife. Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote
Eccojams are a very simple exercise where I just take music I like, and I loop up a segment, slow it down, and put a bunch of echo on it – just to placate my desire to hear things I like without things I don’t. Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote
To me, ‘Garden of Delete’ is a way of describing the idea that good things can bloom out of a negative situation. All the traumatic experiences I had during puberty, ugly memories and ugly thoughts in general can yield something good, like a record or whatever. Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote
I was a failed grunge kid who was too nerdy to totally get down with rock. Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote
I was perpetually this B-minus kid vacillating between eagerness and depression. I wasn’t a bad kid, and I definitely wasn’t aggressive, but I was a sad kid. Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote
I knew my whole life that I had to make ends meet or I would be ashamed of myself. I had a lot of pressure from my parents. So that’s where my vision comes from. It’s not to be a great artist, it’s always to be like, ‘Dad, look, I didn’t let you down.’ Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote
Music that is considered minimalism – or post-minimalism music in general – things of that nature or that come from that tradition, or even drone, or non-western music, have a more subtle and more open-ended verticality to them that allows for your own mind and body to be involved. Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote
Especially in repetitive music, to make a long piece of music you have to be extremely skilled in your sleight of hand. Just to make long form music it’s very difficult and you really have to consider what you’re putting someone through. Oneohtrix Point Never Read Quote