I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.
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There is a great correlation between music and images.
When I make music, it's a very visual thing. Conjures up a lot of images.
I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.
Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.
Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.
I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.
It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.
This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.
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