I love vocal music, but I've had a hard time understanding myself through the English language. So it just seemed to me… — Arca Copy Share Image
Arca means 'box' or 'wooden' in very old Spanish. It's a ceremonial container where you store jewelry or valuables, an empty space… — Arca Copy Share Image
Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety -… — Arca Copy Share Image
I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a… — Arca Copy Share Image
Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that… — Arca Copy Share Image
When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make… — Arca Copy Share Image
If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels… — Arca Copy Share Image
Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to… — Arca Copy Share Image
When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make… — Arca Copy Share Image
Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come… — Arca Copy Share Image
When I work with other people, I have to try to make their vision happen. With my own, I don't think about… — Arca Copy Share Image
I feel like, a lot of times, you make music, and you don't really understand why until with hindsight. — Arca Copy Share Image
I want to be interested in the music I make until I die. That's more important to me than the size of… — Arca Copy Share Image
I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while… — Arca Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used to say, 'I'm not making music. I am getting catharsis for emotion.' For me, vulnerability is… — Arca Copy Share Image
When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot… — Arca Copy Share Image
Making music can get so emotional that, if you don't set limits for yourself, it can push you or the person that… — Arca Copy Share Image
The only thing that mattered to me with 'Xen' was setting things up against each other in an uncomfortable way. If there's… — Arca Copy Share Image
I kind of roll my eyes when people say they make music for themselves or they make art just for themselves, because,… — Arca Copy Share Image
It's a really deep and layered psychological situation - making music with someone - if they're trying to make something real and… — Arca Copy Share Image
I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while… — Arca Copy Share Image
We try and banish whole inner realms. Sometimes, you have to touch the thing inside you're most afraid of and see what happens when… — Arca Copy Share Image
If you try and kind of focus on hope, but you know what it's like to be in the dark, then hope is more… — Arca Copy Share Image
It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words in order… — Arca Copy Share Image
When I work with other people, I have to try to make their vision happen. With my own, I don't think about it. The… — Arca Copy Share Image
When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that… — Arca Copy Share Image
It's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that one day,… — Arca Copy Share Image
There has to be an entry point to learn about myself, or an idea I've never tried, because then I can try on a… — Arca Copy Share Image
With 'Lonely Thug,' I constructed a fantasy character who was very masculine and strong and almost threatening, but his demeanor belied some complication. — Arca Copy Share Image
You might be raised as a boy in a very conservative environment and then somehow, at some point, there was a side of me… — Arca Copy Share Image
I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of… — Arca Copy Share Image
