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Fifteen Questions Interview with Elisabeth Klinck
Free Floating
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Thomas Morgan about Improvisation
"Whatever rules one comes up with, there will always be something that breaks them and is artistically successful.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Antimaterial Worlds
Just One String
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Manabu Hiramoto aka Shinkiro
Inner Landscapes
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Me Lost Me Shares her Creative Process
"To be totally absorbed in making something is the best feeling in the world. It's kind of self care.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Raul Alvarez
Symbols of Communication
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Zohra (of Azar Swan)
A Rich Tapestry
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Rhys Edwards of Formika and Ulrika Spacek
Escape to Confrontation
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Catalyst Quartet about Interpretation
“Playing in a string quartet takes immense trust in your colleagues.“
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Loki’s Folly Share their Creative Process
"If there is a way to keep strict control of the process, we haven’t found it!”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Beatkozina
"Music is the most immaterial thing and the most tangible thing at the same time. Nothing can be compared to it.”
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The Ocean Share their Creative Process
"The mindset for creating comes from the constant need to create.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Fox Apts.
Synchronized Intuition
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Tormodur
Paper Confessional
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Phil Venable
Motivated by Terrible Music
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Jake Meginsky Shares his Creative Process
“Spirituality is a way to connect to realms of consciousness greater than my own. Music is one way to do this.“
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Kat Duma
Any Ideas, No Restrictions
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Perlee
Blindfolded in a Maze
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Terms Share their Creative Process
“The song doesn't write itself. But it does sometimes express a preference!“
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Passarella Death Squad about Fashion & Music
"Whatever stories are being told by the music – they're reflected by the clothing worn."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Eric Angelo Bessel
Magic of the Mundane
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Bestfriend Share their Creative Process
“Honesty! Honesty, honesty, honesty.“
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Maison Ware about Production, Technology, and Creativity
“My studio is a space I could live in if I wanted to.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Karyendasoul
Life Navigator
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Efraín Rozas Talks Sound
"I was fascinated by a single Moog note - so I made a whole album with it."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Megan Mitchell of Cruel Diagonals
Everything in Earnest
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Melati ESP
Ride the Wave
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Xylouris White
Born to it
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Fifteen Questions Interview with The Teskey Brothers
The Dinner Test
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GoGo Penguin Share their Creative Process
“There can be a tendency to always want to make something ‘better.’ But often that can go the other way.“
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Chloé Thévenin & Ben Shemie of High Season about Collaboration
“I need to feel secure with my collaborator. We need to communicate to move forward.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Rikas
Dancing with a Smile on Your Face
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Fifteen Questions Interview with HYPNA
Mind Flowers
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Emma Tricca
Not a Choice, just a Need
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Peter Walker about Field Recording
“Attentively listening to field recordings is like watching an uncut video. It’s a re-experience of something.“
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Devon James
Deal with it
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Isola
Glory to God
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Mike Watt (Spirit of Hamlet, Minutemen, The Stooges) Shares his Creative Process
"I try to make music a very personal adventure.”
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Scotty Irving (Spirit of Hamlet, Clang Quartet) Shares his Creative Process
“I don't think God should take the blame if what I came up with sucks!“
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Kawabata Makoto (Spirit of Hamlet, Acid Mothers Temple, Mainliner) Shares his Creative Process
“Music is totally not self-expression.“
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Benjy Johnson of Spirit of Hamlet Shares his Creative Process
“Aren’t the demos always the best versions anyway?“
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Matador about Production, Technology, and Creativity
"AI is pulling every single human element out of the process. It's re-harvesting everything that’s already out there."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Brìghde Chaimbeul
Led by the Drones
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Shramm about Improvisation
"Improvisation is creativity on the instrument. Develop your creativity. Give the instrument a language.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Sandrayati
Sanctuary in Music
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Roy Davis Jr.
Ready to Change the World
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Adriana Calcanhotto Shares her Creative Process
"I consider myself a Darwinian creator. I need errors to create anything.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Martyn Heyne
Don't Cure the Disease
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Suki Sou
Like a Ninja
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Mediocre
A Comforting Crisis
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Mauro Picotto about DJing
“I need the audience near me as much as I need the music.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Matt Espy
What does Bad Music Taste Like?
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Kalia Vandever
Solace in Dark Times
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DMX Krew about Production, Technology, and Creativity
“When people ask me about gear I always say: just get anything and make some music.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Peggy Seeger
More Precious than Gold
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Fifteen Questions Interview with unperson
Every sound tells a story
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Tuzeint
Homecoming
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Sainkho Namtchylak
Magic Energy
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Saba Alizadeh Shares his Creative Process
"Creation is like giving birth. You have to face the depression afterwards.”
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Izo FitzRoy Shares her Creative Process
"There is a flow that’s incredible when songs pour out. It's untenable sometimes.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Simon Alexander
One out of 15
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Julia Sarr
A Heart that Know how to Marvel
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Höhn about Field Recording
“There’s not a single field recording on this album that wasn’t processed in some way!“
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Ian Brennan (Tinariwen)
Intimacy is the Goal
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Fifteen Questions Interview with теплота
A Tangible Mystery
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Key Clef about Production, Technology, and Creativity
"On the modular, there has to be a thought before any action. You can look for inspiration in a preset.”
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Trad.Attack! Share their Creative Process
"Estonians are known for their paganism. We are no different.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with ARXX
Be Nice, Enjoy it.
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Carmen Souza Shares her Creative Process
"Just like we have no control over life, we have no control over music."
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Jeff Mills about Metropolis and Scoring for Film
“To me, the visual rhythm of Metropolis is similar to the way music is thought about by a DJ.“
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VINTERSEA Share Their Creative Process
"Ideas come to me in quiet. But creative accomplishment comes in a hail of drums, riffs, and screams!"
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Kid Koala about Production, Technology, and Creativity
“My studio is like a dating service for instruments and effects.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Ellereve
A Matter of Survival
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Chris Cubeta
A Bit of Chaos
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Klur
Expressive Grounding
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Isabassi
Window to our Inner Selves
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Monika Herzig
Vehicles of Communal Expression
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Baiju Bhatt about Improvisation
"My new music expresses my hybrid identity as a musician and as a human. A synthesis of my Eastern and Western origins.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Penelope Robin
Commitments Beyond the Toothbrush
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Anthony Tan Shares his Creative Process
"I could revise endlessly. It never feels done.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with LIV ALMA
Shaping the Empty Space
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Fluffy Maybes 松软许诺Share their Creative Process
"We try not to get too caught up in the destination. We are thinking more about the mode of travel.”
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Matt Rösner about Improvisation
"For some, standing in front of the unknown can be scary. I find the challenge exciting.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Yusuf Ahmed of Qwalia
Music is my Culture
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Neil Cowley
Universal Understandings
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CATT Shares her Creative Process
“Creativity is about making something that wasn't there before. Routines can not be a part of it.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Near Stoic
Cathartic Power
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Kuf Share their Creative Process
"The most important thing is to play together – sometimes for hours without a break."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Frifot
Blurred Lines of Melting Watermelons
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Tools of Creation: The Harp
Marion Ravot about an instrument of beauty with gymnastic requirements
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Andrew Weathers about Field Recording
"Listening is a way into an interior without touching its edges."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Gianclaudio Hashem Moniri aka Plaster
Language Renewed
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Vincenzo Pizzi talks Sound
"Silence can often be frightening."
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Josienne Clarke Shares her Creative Process
“There's a perfect combination of boredom and pressure.”
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Lambert about Improvisation
"My instrument probably wants something from me. I should respect that.”
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Ronald Seibt of HHV about Anniversaries, Vinyl Culture and the Changing Faces of Hip Hop
"Hip hop has become more commercial. But it has also diversified.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Eddie Fowlkes
A Wave that Changed the World
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Fifteen Questions Interview with nana.ios
Vesels in a Non-Binary Universe
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Mute Duo Share their Creative Process
"We try to start with silence. And patience.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Rowan Stuart
Dreams on a Concrete Wall
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Amy Stroup
Permission to Cry
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Christian Balvig
Hunting for Fulfillment
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A Certain Ratio Share their Creative Process
"Production isn’t as important as the idea itself."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Mourad Sliti aka DJ Mourad
Inherently Exotic
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Riopy Shares his Creative Process
"Composing is a bit like life - you have no control."
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Craig Armstrong about "As if to Nothing" and working with Massive Attack
"The electronics got bigger and bigger. It began to feel like the speakers couldn’t contain the sound.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Leucrocuta
I’m here ... can you feel me?
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Petros Klampanis about Improvisation
"The bass is a physical instrument. You have to be fit to make the beast sing.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Lara Jones
Improvisation - Innovation - Identity
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Marijus Aleksa
Personal Traditions
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Skerryvore Share their Creative Process
"Ultimately you’re likely to never be truly satisfied - no matter what you do."
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French 79 about Production, Technology, and Creativity
“I recorded at Jean-Michel Jarre’s studio - I felt like a kid in front of all those legendary synths!”
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Carlo Mombelli about Improvisation
"There are articulations and phrases that make me sound who I am. I am not scared to repeat them.”
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Hans Nieswandt Shares his Creative Process
"If you have a clear idea of how the finished song should sound, you end up being disappointed."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Ber
The Connecting Superpower
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John Atkinson Talks Sound
“On some level I think we should have EPA standards for noise pollution just like we have standards for air pollution."
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Synne Sanden Shares her Creative Process for Unfold
“These songs felt like they were pushing through my veins.”
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Ringhold Share their Creative Process
"Ringhold is a slightly bumpy ride. But we have a plan at the wheel."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Omar Aloulou
It Comes at Night
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Nicoleta Raicu and Nicolae Baldovin of CVLTARTES Magazine about Music Journalism
“For artists, or journalists, music is an endless stream of energy. We're constantly borrowing creativity from it.”
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Umru (Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek) about Production, Technology, and Creativity
“The best music usually isn’t the most original, never-before-heard thing.”
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Anchor and Burden about Collaboration and Improvisation
"A democratic approach can be very tiresome in a band context. It can cost years of productivity."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Kim Reenskaug aka Wow Sailor
Contemplative Spaces
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Ramsey Neville about Production, Technology, and Creativity
“I’d take a laptop and headphones over a fancy, multi-room recording studio any day.”
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Tina Davidson Shares her Creative Process
"When a new piece of music stirs within me, I feel it in my stomach."
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Schlindwein Shares his Creative Process
"As soon as making music becomes like making a cup of coffee I will quit."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Kristen Mather de Andrade
A Guide for your Journey
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Robbie Judkins shares his Creative Process
Wrestle and Resolve
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Fifteen Questions Interview with otay:onii
Fundamental Energy Exchange
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L.Dre on Interpreting Classical Music from a Lofi Perspective
“Lofi Symphony is my masterclass of interpretation.“
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Sergio Díaz De Rojas about Music on the Last Day of Your Life
“Words aren’t compassionate. They won’t offer solace — that’s what music does.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Bantu Spaceship
A Bit like Time Traveling
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Mike Polizze of Purling Hiss Shares his Creative Process
"Once I've finished an album I don't listen to it for a long while."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Vincent Littlehat
Universal Identity
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Zar
Uncomfortable Breakthroughs
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Victor Ruiz about DJing
“People think the DJ is the most important part of the party. They’re not.“
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Gamut Inc About Robotics and the Music Machine Tradition
"If you let the idea of a soul separated from the body go, you lose nothing."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Hannah Schheider
Cosmic Translations
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Nico Lahs
Fantastic Duplicity
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Companion Songs
Like a Crush
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Fifteen Questions Interview with BIG|BRAVE
Enter Through Emotion
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Lucas Santtana Shares his Creative Process
"Creation is not data processing. It is human, erratic, uncertain, doubt, fickle."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Baba & Co
Colours of Freedom
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WILSN Shares her Creative Process
"The days of me doubting myself and my musical choices are over."
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AVAION about Production, Technology, and Creativity
“Timelessness plays a big role in my music.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Zied Meddeb Hamrouni aka Shinigami San
Because we Have to
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Victoria Wijeratne
Otherness as a Creative Power
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Duplex Share their Creative Process
“I love the moment when entire musical landscapes are born out of nothingness.“
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Richard Carr Shares his Creative Process
"Recording August Dreams was risky. Like jumping out of an airplane together."
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Ryan Cole of Desert Storm Shares his Creative Process
"The impulse to create is dialled into all of us within the band."
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Oscar de Jong of Kraak & Smaak about Production, Technology, and Creativity
“You can be as creative in the mixing process as in the recording process.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Benoît Pioulard
Dressing the Skeleton
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Marie Tjong-Ayong
Waves that Touch Everything
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Matyas Wolter of Pulsar Trio
The long Way to Simplicity
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Vinny Villbass of LAFT about Production, Technology, and Creativity
“Don't believe the hype! Quality, simplicity and emotions will always win in the long run.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Luka Faulisi
Take the Guts!
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Jenn Howard Shares her Creative Process
"It's best to get out of my own way, and let the song grow as it pleases."
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Nate Fredrick Shares his Creative Process
"Once an idea is started, it is always being reimagined."
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Doc Martin about Production, Technology, and Creativity
"The best thing is when I hear someone play a record I made in '94, and they make it fit into a set today."
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Anchor and Burden Share their Creative Process
"Once we get started, it's almost like jumping off the cliff."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Bongeziwe Mabandla
Ancient Modernism
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Tomas Järmyr (LAFT, frml Motorpsycho) Shares his Creative Process
"Control is the last thing I need."
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Mark van Tongeren about Overtone Singing
“Overtone singing was kind of addictive for some years.“
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Pratibha Singh Baghel
Sail Through
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Diane Barbé about Field Recording
“All sounds signal some form of energy transfer."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with SKNDR
A Mutant's Quest
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Fifteen Questions Interview with URBS
Naked Gun Apocalypse
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Fabian Ziegler
Marathon Vibrations
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Sophia Hansen-Knarhoi about the Connection between Music, Dance and Choreography
"Dance allows me to connect to music through another medium. It gives me a new perspective on composing."
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Markus Reuter of Anchor and Burden about why Expression is Over-rated
“I want you, as a listener, to experience something. Not to express myself.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Christopher Hale
No Allegiances
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Skander Jaïbi
Coherent Contrasts
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Megan Alice Clune Shares her Creative Process
"Uncovering what kind of album it’s going to be can be a little difficult."
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Jung Jaeil Shares his Creative Process
"Everything starts from improvisation. It fails most of the time."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Fire-Toolz
The Endless Waterfall
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Polinski
Personal, but not about Me
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Ramkot
Instant Emotion
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Ada Morghe
A Mother of Many Children
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Netherlands
A Noble Pursuit
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Amber Nicholson
Modern Traditions
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WAAN about Improvisation
"Improvisation is a world in itself. It is difficult to grasp it in a couple of rules.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with OXYMORRONS
Blueprint for the Future
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Vivi Rincon
Light and Dance
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Me, Charles
Sophisticated and Sensitive, Shallow, and Self indulgent
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Madison McFerrin Shares her Creative Process
"I’ll try writing a song after the next time I make scones."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Edley ODowd (Psychic TV)
Unfettered Expression!
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Marianne Svašek
Endlessly We Learn
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Destructo about DJing
“I may have it all laid out. Then, I walk into the room and change the entire game plan.”
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Cole Kamen-Green about working as a session musician for Lorde, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé
“Lorde asked me to make some guttural sounds. She demonstrated this by basically turning into an amazing rabid animal.“
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Gregory Macdonald (Sloan, Night Plow, Cola Wars) about Collaboration
“I try not to say no to anyone. One can learn from even the least likely partnership.“
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Earth Trax
Simple Ideas are Okay, too.
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Begonia Shares her Creative Process
"Something sparks a memory - and everything about the song changes!"
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Ryan Adams Shares his Creative Process
"I don’t do doubt. Or fear. It has no place in my work."
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FOVOS about Production, Technology, and Creativity
“Restrictions breed creativity. ”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with FRACTURES
Lonely Boy
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ATŌMI about Acoustic Ecology and the Widened Spectrum of Vibration
"The widened spectrum of vibration, including sound, is the key element of material and immaterial existence."
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Maita Shares her Creative Process (2023 Edition)
"I might sing a line and realize: That’s what I want to write about."
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Thomas Burkhardt about Production, Technology, and Creativity
“A studio should offer to you everything you need. Not everything you want.”
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Dustin Wong about Cultural Transitions, Memory and the Explosiveness of Hendrix
"My music works vertically, like playing Tetris, or Lego. It's about making something out of simple shapes and materials.”
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Fluffy Maybes 松软许诺 about Improvisation
"We are even using sounds from pots and pans. Breaking rules and limits is what we want to achieve through this project.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Juan Hansen
Familiar Connection
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Junko Ueda
Nutrition for the Mind
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Tools of Creation: Roland Juno-60
Thomas Lemmer about a synthesizer so unique it's hard to replace
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Synne Sanden about Healing Sexuality and True Intimacy
“I feel the fear of releasing this album. But the need to share these experiences is stronger.”
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Bruce Sudano (Michael Jackson, Donna Summer) Shares his Creative Process
“I sometimes lament how a picture of your dinner can get more likes than the project you’ve spent a year working on.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Raquel Martins
Nothing in Between
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Fiction Life aka Reade Truth Shares his Creative Process
“There is a wonderful world of unique and weird music that is being suppressed. We all have to do our part to free it.“
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Elskavon
At the Core
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Green Rays (formerly of My Sad Captains) Shares his Creative Process
“Music sits in a totally different sphere to anything else in my life.“
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Jonathan Bockelmann Shares his Creative Process
“Forcing myself will never help me find the right ideas!“
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Lucy Kruger Shares her Creative Process
“Honesty in art is such a confusing concept.“
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Ian Hawgood Talks Sound
“My focus is on how to protect natural environments and their soundscapes from human impact."
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Porya Hatami talks Sound
"I grab my recorder every time I hear a weird noise."
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David Newman (Monogoto, Soft Generator) talks Sound
"Sounds are more important than music. We should always start with sound."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Clara Kossaifi
Spark to Respond
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Kraków Loves Adana Shares her Creative Process
“Creativity is more of a state of being instead of simply producing a bunch of artworks.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Tukkiman
Add the Heart
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Joona Toivanen Shares his Creative Process
”When you can go world-class fishing, writing music would be a total waste of time”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Toada
Go Where You Dream
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Azar Azar Shares his Creative Process
“For me, the creative zone is like Neverland.“
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Grand River Shares her Creative Process
“My process doesn't have any limits. Probably the limit is my patience.“
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Fifteen Questions Interview with The Degrees
Propelling the Past
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Power Plush
Quite the Softies
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Kid Arrow about Human Intention, AI, and Expanding the Imaginable
“The Cure's Disintegration would have been very easy for an AI to create."”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Ghoula
Saving the Stories
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Maelstrom & Louisahhh about Collaboration
Failing with Grace
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Tools of Creation: The Guitar
Brad Allen Williams about a massively popular instrument that doesn't have a single classical archetype
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Thomas Lemmer Shares his Creative Process
“Music is about emotions. It's crucial to prioritize them over structure.“
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Close Counters
Perfectly Imperfect
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Gogol Bordello Share their Creative Process
“If there is nothing coming at the moment, you haven't lived it yet to write about it.“
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WAAN about Collaboration
“Trust is a big thing. When there is trust, things can start to flow.“
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Sobolik about Production, Technology, and Creativity
“If you take away all the tools, and leave only “creativity” you just have ideas - and no actual music.”
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Frank Popp Ensemble Share their Creative Process
“Brainstorming with red wine makes a lot of sense.“
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Sham-e-Ali Nayeem Shares her Creative Process
“Music expands a poem’s emotional reach. It is the place of wordless secrets, codes, maps and math.“
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Jim Snidero About Improvisation
"There’s a misunderstanding when it comes to jazz improvisation: That you’re making it all up as you’re going along out of thin air.”
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Alexander Church about Sonic Healing, Psychoanalysis and Creativity
“Without music as an outlet, I would hold onto a lot of the feelings and triggers I picked up in the therapy room.“
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Mivos Quartet about Interpretation
“Rhythm is the most fundamental aspect. Traditional classical conservatory training does little to equip you for that reality.“
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Hey Hey My My Share their Creative Process
“Good lyrics for me should be perfectly musical before being meaningful.“
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PoiL Share their Creative Process
“Works of art have always been unfinished, infinite.”
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Tools of Creation: The Guitar
Marisa Anderson about a resonant instrument that can really sing.
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Will Epstein Shares his Creative Process
“Lyrics can feel like a necessary evil. But they can elevate the music as well. That’s the heart of the struggle.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Roxane Métayer
The Forester's Song
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Ralph Lawson about DJing
“Music is communication - when it’s a two-way conversation it’s electric.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Kevin Stebner from Cold Water
Don't Swallow the Poison
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Kujo
Objective Beauty
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Andy Martin Shares his Creative Process
“You have to empty your head.“
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you.Guru Share their Creative Process
“There is no me without making music.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Agnes Hustler
Extreme Vulnerability
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Malcolm Strachan Shares his Creative Process
“I love Blue Note. But I love Hip Hop, too.”
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Akmee about Improvisation
"Music is the sound of social study.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Matt Hsu's Obscure Orchestra
Laughing Against the Thunder
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Maja Lena
Together and Alone
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Albrecht Schrader Shares his Creative Process
“Small things make song lyrics great. Because the music does the rest.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Marius Gjersø
Tiny Pocket of Time and Space
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Duplex about the Art of Collaboration
“It's always comfortable working with musicians you know. It feels like an old couple.“
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Rezident about Production, Technology, and Creativity
“Most things in nature seem very creative without a consciousness.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with O Squared
Love without Borders
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Avadhut Kasinadhuni
For the Soul
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Fifteen Questions Interview with New Age Doom
Inspired Internally
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Fågelle
Scratch My Brain
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Wendell Harrison about his Development as an Improviser
"I like having more colors in the crayon box.”
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Tomas Hallonsten Shares his Creative Process
“Okay ... What malfunctioning old instrument can we work with today?”
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Elina Albach about Interpretation
"Sound immersion should become much more important in historical performance practice."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Sara Eslami
Stories and Dreams
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Dave Seaman about DJing
"Being able to travel the world as a DJ seemed utterly ridiculous when I started.“
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Satoko Fujii Shares her Creative Process
"There is only one correct note. Sometimes I spend an hour finding it."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Andrew Poppy
John Cage Made me Do it.
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Seven Davis Jr. Shares his Creative Process
“It’s all pure instincts, intuition. And occasionally chaos.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Dakota Jones
Feel Something, Together
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Vahid Qaderi
The Unlimited Field
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Charlotte Brandi Shares her Creative Process
"The last ingredient should always be megalomania. I often miss that in women.”
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Lionel Marchetti about Sound and his Artistic Practise
Sensual Metamorphosis
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Tuvaband Shares her Creative Process
“The pleasure I get from creating a song is beyond every pleasure in life.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Printiig
Towards a Language
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Simon Scott Shares his Creative Process
“There is something transcendental about losing yourself to the moment and hyper focussing on listening.”
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Dubmatix about Production, Technology, and Creativity
“What tool can have a deeper impact on creativity? Learning. Learning will help improve the creative output for any artist.”
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Cosmicat about DJing
“I would like to maintain a human touch and errors as much as possible.“
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Jelena Glazova talks Sound
All Sounds are Equal, all Sounds are God.
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Charbel Haber
Goose bumps don’t lie.
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Eddie Chacon Shares his Creative Process
“I don’t prepare. The significance of that somehow freaks me out.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Aftab Darvishi
Mind Driven
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Kresten Osgood about Improvisation
"I insist on creating new art when I improvise. I hate when people pretend to have a language and stick to that.”
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Brad Allen Williams Shares his Creative Process
"Creating feels less like something I do and more like someone I am."
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Sakina Abdou about Improvisation
"I can't dream of anything better than incinerating myself in sound and spreading myself endlessly in ears and hearts.”
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Duo Gazzana about Interpretation
“It's fundamental to play each piece as if it were the very first time.“
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Unwed Sailor Shares his Creative Process
“If trying to get an idea is difficult, I’ll walk away from it.”
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Meg Baird Shares Her Creative Process
"Feeling good, grounded, playing with matches all can help feel more connected and worthwhile."
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Holland Patent Public Library
Where Someone Really Lives
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Simone Menezes
Shifting the paradigm
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Fifteen Questions Interview with hifiklub
Full Frontal
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Cosmic Boys
It's obvious! It's Picasso!
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Fifteen Questions Interview with poolblood
The Ultimate Dessert
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Fifteen Questions Interviews with Mohamad Zatari
Boldness in Expression
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Karma Fields about Production, Technology, and Creativity
“It's silly when people use drum pads and single-finger drums like it's 1980.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Havemeyer
Sink Into the Feeling
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Lord Of The Isles Shares his Creative Process
“My studio can become pretty messy.”
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JAMIIE about DJing
“Tracks in a DJ set can nudge and catch each other. They transition seamlessly into an eternal track.“
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Nicholas Maloney / Blanket Swimming about Sound
"I would like to create a piece that lasts several days but does not cause ear fatigue."
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Christian Meaas Svendsen about Improvisation
"All I can do, is to be of service of the music. If I do a good job at that, the music will figure itself out.”
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Conrad Pack about Production, Technology, and Creativity
“I’m a total romantic. I find the idea of being surrounded by an unhealthy amount of cables appealing.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Lim Orion
Letting the Feelings Breathe
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Gebhard Ullmann Shares his Creative Process
“The music emerges day by day ... until late at night.”
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Tim Lefebvre (Night Plow, Michael Wollny, Uri Caine, Black Crowes) about Collaboration
“I love how someone else can take your idea and run with it.”
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo of Larsen
Every Single Fucking Day!
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Roberto Maria Clemente of Larsen
Everything is a Language
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Paolo Dellapiana of Larsen
Drifting, Driven by Instinct
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Marco Schiavo aka Il Bue of Larsen
Atmospheric Drumming
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Fifteen Questions Interview with Gina Été
A Little Distance
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