My idea is to take the improvisational excitement that takes place with Carnatic music and juxtapose that in different sonic contexts.
Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it’s something musical or a traditional joke.
The SynthAxe enables you to achieve a whole world of sonic textures that you cannot get with a guitar. There was nothing like it before and nothing like it since.
You or I never buy an Intel product explicitly, and yet their sonic logo is far better known and more powerful than its visual equivalent. It’s probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
It’s an interesting door opening, this use of sonic signalling – using sound to alert us in a more subtle way than a beep.
What I wanted to do in rock ‘n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
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