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“I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.” quote by Arca — Download Open image

“I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.”

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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 you touch it rather than look away from it all the time.

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 meaningful.

It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words in order to go deep into the practice of making materials and textures that would express what I'm trying to say more accurately.

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…

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When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making. Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.

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, you wake up feeling masculine, and one day, you wake up feeling feminine. The flickering in between those two states is what's most fertile for me.

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…

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With 'Lonely Thug,' I constructed a fantasy character who was very masculine and strong and almost threatening, but his demeanor belied some complication.

You might be raised as a boy in a very conservative environment and then somehow, at some point, there was a side of me that felt really powerful and sensual in a way that was more feminine. For me, it's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just…

There's something in glitchy music that I like to get lost in.

I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing.

The first CD I bought was Brandy and Monica's 'The Boy Is Mine.'

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