I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
With digital technology there's a huge spectrum of flexibility in what you can do to manipulate sound and image - which you can push into a really artificial realm if you aren't careful.
I've been a visual artist my entire life, so translating music to imagery has always come naturally to me. Tycho is an audio-visual project in a lot of ways, so I don't see a real separation between the visual and musical aspects; they are both just components of a larger vision.
I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.
Music and video games go hand in hand.
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
When I make music, it's a very visual thing. Conjures up a lot of images.
If you could make telly as good as radio, it would be amazing - audio can do things so easily that television can't.
The idea of doing film and music together is an absolute dream.
When I am writing music, I sometimes envision a video playing alongside.
I have always been interested in incorporating real places into the music I make. Bringing the outside into the controlled world of recorded sound just gives life and physicality.
I'm obsessed with the power of music and image together. There's also something about music videos that are incredibly glamorous - there's a fetishistic aesthetic to them that you don't really see in movies in the same way.
I love narrative videos, but sometimes I think they can limit a listener's experience of a song.
Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.
I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
I like marrying the concept of music with new media art forms.
