Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.
There are so many different points to 'Wild World,' and it sounds quite different to what people would expect from us.
To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.
I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.
Clams's music to me is where there's no boundaries. It was just exciting for my mind to be as free as Clams's music is.
I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.
I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.
Yeah, I've always wondered what it would be like to make music that's not nostalgic at all, and it's really, really hard for me to imagine.
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.
I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.
'The Whale' was in the category of so-called serious music, and yet it brings together a wide series of musical styles. It was influenced by people such as The Beatles, the spirit of the times, and I think 'The Whale' certainly had a pop element to it.
'Rann' is a new genre to me, a new experience and it is very special.
I just want to write fun, interesting music that pushes boundaries and is still true to myself. I want people to feel something.
I don't use conventional voices for my compositions.
Whatever my singing aspirations are, you'll hear them in 'Aap Ka Suroor.' It's no run-of-the-mill album.
The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He is one of the few composers who can put slapstick and primal emotion alongside each other. He allows you to witness new wonders in the sounds around you by approaching them from a completely new angle. With a third ear maybe.
Music doesn't have to sit within the confines of pop structure, you can really make stuff that's more visual.
We're not playing your typical guitar tuning, so there is no normal chords for us to get our footing with. We're pretty much making it up as we go as far as the sounds we're creating. Oftentimes, the song will be inspired by just a certain kind of block of sound that somebody creates.
A guitar solo in the same part of every tune - that's been done so much. I think solos shine more when you have them in specific and unexpected places.
