With Daft Punk it was almost a case of reverse engineering.
“When people mentioned the word synthesizer I didn’t even understand what it meant, so I tried to make sense of it by using software to unlock that puzzle. How did that influence you in practical terms? I had a good sense of how rock music was made because I could see a guitar, but I didn’t feel the same way about synthesizers and vocoders because it all seemed so foreign and magical.” Within 40 minutes I’d heard snippets from all of their famous songs and the sounds they used struck me as being inexplicable. “When I was 11 there was a Daft Punk documentary on TV. I was more interested in the idea of being able to improvise and show there was a clear connection between my brain and the music you heard through using this tool.”ĭid you want to make music prior to discovering gear or was it the gear that inspired you to make music? I tried to make it more visual by accentuating my hand movements but it was actually quite trivial to rehearse and manage. My memory’s hazy but I’d tested the concept based on an Akai MPC-style layout just to make sure, although Pop Culture was not a difficult piece to perform. I did a lot of magic and puzzles so I had a movement style that was informed by that. “No, but a lot of my hobbies involved my hands. Had you already experienced using similar production tools? You looked pretty skilled at using the Launchpad.
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