Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.
My central quest was to have a piece played on the saxophone sound like more than one instrument, exploiting different registers and wide interval leaps.
I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.
Music is organized sound.
I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.
We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.
So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.