Sound Contrast Quotes

My set can get really screamo and aggressive, or it can be ambient and Enya-esque.

I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for strings, you can add bassoon and oboe and brass. I like these extreme differences in sounds right next to each other.

We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.

Human was the music, natural was the static.

The only thing that mattered to me with 'Xen' was setting things up against each other in an uncomfortable way. If there's a really soft piece of music, and then you're hit by a painful explosive sound, your brain does this funny somersault trying to make sense of why this happened. And at that very moment, your brain is malleable.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.

I love that tension between machine sounds and organic sounds, and also the contrast between abrasive sounds and soft sounds.

Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.

I like it when two sounds complement each other but are way different on a record.