jon hopkins interview about the creative process on his latest album …
https://www.musicradar.com/news/jon-hopkins-interview
It’s all happening live; you’ve got instruments that are active so if you just change the instruments but keep the chain… I’ll have plugin chains of maybe 15 plugins running into each other and the results end up so far away from what you started with. Why not try playing a piano or singing into that to see what happens?
So, it’s not like I imagined all those sounds and made them in advance as that’s impossible. Once you have the epiphany that you can’t imagine all your own sounds, but they’ll come through if they’re what the music needs, then there’s a great freedom in that. I think Ableton’s the only program that really supports that kind of work method.
i love this quote, makes me feel so much better about my own process. i’ve got this cerebral tendency to assume artist at the level of someone like jon hopkins are deliberately recreating each sound as they’ve conceived in advanced vs. trial and error, happy accidents, and the like. if it sounds good, do it.
