were right at the moment of making it, and it’s a reflection of somebody’s personality. So if you’re honest to yourself, you shouldn’t have to feel like your smuggling anything in to a track. It just comes naturally during the creative process. If people don’t like it, then, well, I guess they don’t like it and there’s not a lot you can do to change that.
How do you weave ethereal dynamics into the formal mathematics of music? Oh man, I try not to think about it all like that. I find thinking too much about music gets in the way and creates a mental barrier. I think it’s better to just get locked in to it and just guide the music in a particular direction.
understanding or perception of this can help you to paint a picture during a set.
What is the role of melodies within dance music and do you find yourself almost having to smuggle them into tracks?
But on some level, I know that everything is connected. To quote Aronofsky’s Pi, “Mathematics is the language of nature”. So music is maths, and maths is the basis of everything we have come to understand around us. It’s no coincidence that our minds react to sound. We’ve evolved in to this environment and we are subject to the same laws of nature as everything else.
I do think having knowledge of how mathematics is connected to music helps to Melodies are a subjective thing and different create a bigger picture of what it’s all about. people have different tolerance levels. It’s The brain reacts to sound, and frequencies in much like vocals in that respect. I see melodies a scale excite chemical activity in the people’s as a good way to tap in to emotions. Some heads. Our ancestors figured that out at an people shy away from melodic dance music, early stage, even if they weren’t consciously but I think if it’s done right and with taste, aware of the exact science behind it, I guess using nice scales like the minor pentatonic, they didn’t need to be. They used their natural melodies can play a key part in ‘peaking’ a instincts and how it made them feel to guide track or DJ set. them. I don’t think people should have any shame in I think you can get too distracted in the the music they make. You’ve got to do what techniques and trying to be too precise and comes from your heart, not really what you thinking too much about it all. I have always think others will like or approve of, so with the tried to let the flow of the writing experience same mindset, I don’t shy away from adding guide the track. You should try to let your such elements in my music. I get in to the flow instincts guide you based on your own and let a track evolve naturally and let my experiences, having leant what feels right and instincts guide me. what doesn’t, as well as being aware of that indefinable element of nature that’s in us all. Whatever the finished product sounds like, it’s a collection of ideas and sounds that