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- I mean, music is feelings to begin with.
So then people may think when you make music using machines, how do you get the feelings out?
I think today, with the technology we have, if you are in control of it... You can't let the technology control oneself.
- Definitely not.
- It has to be us controlling the machines and the technology.
And you add your personality and some warmth to it, partly by using our voices and
maybe add a guitarist. You mix it up.
Then I think the combination will work nicely. - It's dangerous to focus on... It feels you can work for a month with
a song, finding new sounds, new details, new "frosting." You have to realize when to stop.
- That's also what's so great with music. It's an artform you can experiment with endlessly really.
- Almost everybody works this way today because almost everyone uses the same keyboards, same type of machines.
That's why it's so important... we spend a lot of time making sounds of our own. Developing existing sounds.
To try and find our own... to blend sounds. Many people think that if you have a really fancy mixing board
and a lot of keyboards, and the best of the best everything you can make good music. But that's not how it is, is it?
Unfortunately!
And as such music has become more sound fixated today than what it was a few years ago.
Or at least the kind of music we work with feels like if we don't have any good material
it doesn't matter if we sit here in the studio for six months costing money...
- So you spend your summer here in a dark recording studio with the sun shining outside. How does that feel?
- Great! - Totally OK! I've even managed to catch some rays outside
while Anders and Clarence were programming a song. This one song took a very long time
and it wouldn't work and the sun was shining and I felt "I can't be here anymore!!" so I took a chair outside
and sat in the sun. I got really tanned in three days! People stopped and stared at me.
- Don't you love the subway? - "Isn't she the one who sings 'Neverending Love'??"
So you can do both really!
Subtitles: Thomas Evensson for TDR © 2013.