Oneohtrix Point Never

It's stupid and embarrassing that you can describe something to one person and not to another. Until I've solved that problem I'm…

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Generally my response to seeing something really symmetrical and perfect is... it's the scene with Jack Nicholson's Joker in the first 'Batman,'…

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All my collaborators unilaterally said that I need to just stay on one idea for longer. And of course I understand that.…

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The way I think about things or hear things in my head is actually much closer to acoustic instruments. I don't have…

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When I make music I try to be as honest as I can to how I experience the world. Like how you…

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I have a hard time making a linear-idea song, because that's not the way my thoughts work.

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I was perpetually this B-minus kid vacillating between eagerness and depression. I wasn't a bad kid, and I definitely wasn't aggressive, but…

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The subject is missing from 'Replica' - it's about malleability of materials, and working with metaphor, and sculpting in time. So that…

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I love Ableton's vocoder and Operator for basic side subs and general low-end.

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I was doing the Klaus Schulze noise-kid thing before it became interesting to people.

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If I'm not using something, I tend to sell it and move on, so I'm not too sentimental about hardware synths.

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The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.

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Nothing's ever easy about composing for other people's projects, but I like it. I've been lucky to have worked with adventurous directors…

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Eccojams are a very simple exercise where I just take music I like, and I loop up a segment, slow it down,…

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I've always been obsessed with the grain of the human voice. It's the ultimate instrument, there's this whole level of virtuosity and…

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O.P.N. has always been about reaching for some kind of liminal state in which opposing aesthetic forces become entangled and confused and…

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When you're working in service to a big project, there's always the question of, 'Is there total freedom to do what I…

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OPN is completely off the grid. Its like the slime underneath techno and other synth-oriented music.

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Anything that's too self-assured just makes me nervous.

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Yeah, I tend to tinker with things that I love. It's habitual.

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I was always screwing around with music, but I really wanted to go to film school when I was in high school.…

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To me everything is a material, and everything is subject to change. When I work with found sounds, I'm trying to figure…

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To me, 'Garden of Delete' is a way of describing the idea that good things can bloom out of a negative situation.…

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You look at somebody like Thurston Moore. Is he a noise dude? A punky dude? Is he a free jazz dude? He's…

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Games isn't really pop music, and neither is OPN. Both are part of the same ecosystem and both deal with exploring the…

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