«The sound of unravelling sellotape has a nice pitch dynamic»

«Creative electronic music production involves a catalogue of personalised little tricks picked up and innovated along the way — set one sound against itself reversed and timestreched 50%, the sound of unravelling sellotape has a nice pitch dynamic — plus a series of themes and design templates — skylarks colliding with ZX Spectrum cassettes, large 3 part structures that return to their original theme after a radical stunted detour, draw the finest line possible between in-time and out-of-time sensations you can. This is all kind of knowledge, but I can’t help treating it as ephemeral, I’ve always been more interested in the relationship between this stuff and the social context it’s embedded in.»

Ollie Bown (Icarus), unpublished interview with audioculture.org

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