Anna Meredith Quotes
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With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or tweaking a sample.
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It's the balance between wanting the power of electronics and having something real happening - if you want people to engage in what you're doing, I think that's important. I want to have fun with people, but that's hard to do with a laptop.
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Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.
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I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.
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I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing.
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There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've resolved working a sense of performance into a piece yet.
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If I'm feeling confident, then I write confident, happy, or assured music. I can hear some early electronic sketches I did where I'm clearly not confident and everything's a bit mid-range, nothing really pushes through.
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I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.
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I feel happier knowing a starting point came from me. And I like stuff that gives you a physical reaction.
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I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly that I'd never be a technical electronic musician.