Saturday, 14 June 2008

I hope you can read French


Luckily for me, I can a lot better than I thought I could considering I only took a few years in high school (I took pretty much all the languages offered at some point. Doesn't mean I know any of them.), so I could enjoy this article comparing the wonderful Ellen Allien (see the first track of Playlist 1) to fellow Berlinette electronic music badass Anja Schneider. 

The lesson is all romance languages are the same. And also Boing Poum Tchak is a pretty cool online magazine--don't worry it has English articles, too, including this interview with Swedish artist Andars Ilar. Here's a taste:
Do you think your music is sometimes too complex / experimental according to the listeners ? And why there are so many elements inside your music ? Are you afraid of the silence ? (silence = death ?)
I await death with curiosity, but life is so overwhelmingly full of sounds, and I see music in almost everything around me. In nature, in architecture and infrastructure, it’s really everywhere. I like to listen to a good track over and over again, and be swept away every time. It may be intense and chaotic the first listenings. But then you start to hear new sounds that appear by coincidence, and other sounds dissapear. In life there is always more input than the brain can handle, and you automaticly sort thru this and focus on what’s important. But I don’t think my music is really that complex. To me it seems more like it’s people that’s afraid of noise.
(thanks mnml)

1 comment:

iwearglasses said...

I credit you, Sofia, with broadening my musical horizons. I wish that I liked learning languages. I really do. Oh well. But I do enjoy listening to music in other languages, even if I don't understand the lyrics.

Yeah, action flicks and guns are good to bond over. Come to think of it, my father has instilled in me an appreciation of Indiana Jones, and even moreso, Rocky. (He's from Philly, whaddaya expect?)

And I finally got my sister from the airport. This morning. I did get to explore the entire airport, though.