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I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.

— Alva Noto

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I hear something new, mostly in rhythms, I often find it interesting to recreate it in a studio in a completely different way.

— Jamie xx

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.

— Hank Azaria

Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. That's easy!

— Christopher Young

Creating sounds together with other musicians is something I've always liked doing.

— Roscoe Mitchell

I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's imaginations.

— Sampha

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.

— Terry Riley

The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.

— Ariel Rechtshaid

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't do that much sampling. I create all my own sounds.

— Ansel Elgort

I take sounds and change them into words.

— Brian Eno

I avoid preset sounds wherever possible, and all the sounds I use I have edited.

— Rick Wakeman