To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that’s it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings.
When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon’s own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it’s all too clear the horror of what went on.
I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
I’m very conscious of the fact that I devoted my life to recording music, recordings and writing songs.
I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M.
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.
Eric’s Trip is still a huge influence on me. The style of those recordings and the rawness of them is very inspiring. And the density of the distorted parts, amazing.
Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.
My interests are moving toward both ‘sound and music,’ not just ‘music.’ I have been doing lots of field recordings and also collecting lots of strange sounds.
I don’t come from a film background. I haven’t learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen.
I like to stay home and listen to recordings.
