The first time I saw 'Minecraft,' people wanted to have 8-bit style video game music. But I wanted to go around that and make something organic and partly electronic, partly acoustic, and see if that would be interesting. — C418 Copy Share Image
This new project, 'Excursions,' has been a trip down my own memory lane before 'Minecraft,' when I aspired to create music I could hear… — C418 Copy Share Image
All the big loud housey songs came from the idea of 'I want to create the same song over and over again.' Except that… — C418 Copy Share Image
I was worried Microsoft would take my music. But ultimately I talked to the lawyers and I still own it. — C418 Copy Share Image
When dubstep was big, Ubisoft told the composer for 'Far Cry 3' to make dubstep and to me that was really weird. — C418 Copy Share Image
There's this weird game called 'Blueberry Garden.' For that game an artist recorded some piano music, but evidently he only had a really terrible… — C418 Copy Share Image
Production-wise, I've always stuck with Ableton Live and there's really no reason to switch to something else at this point. — C418 Copy Share Image
Being the composer of 'Minecraft' is basically like imagining the distance between earth and moon. — C418 Copy Share Image
I didn't pretend that I was good at writing music, so I wrote terrible music, intentionally. As time went on, the terrible subsided, and… — C418 Copy Share Image
I think everyone that creates has to cope with the fact that people actually don't give you money because they like you, but because… — C418 Copy Share Image
I started out being quite an eclectic composer, not quite sure where to fit in. I tried my hand a bit at everything, except… — C418 Copy Share Image
With 'Minecraft,' I've started creating serene ambiance music. As the game went on to become famous, people started identifying me as the ambient music… — C418 Copy Share Image
I want to make sound effects for biomes. If you're walking along a river you hear the water, then in the forest you hear… — C418 Copy Share Image
Minecraft has a terrible sound engine. Imagine a looping sound file that plays for two seconds and then just starts over. — C418 Copy Share Image
