Quotes by Anna Meredith - Page 1

I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.
Anna Meredith / Composer
Reason
Stuff
Trying
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Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.
Anna Meredith / Composer
Nice
Reactions
Venues
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I feel happier knowing a starting point came from me. And I like stuff that gives you a physical reaction.
Anna Meredith / Composer
Giving
Knowing
Stuff
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Quite often, when I describe to people what I want, I'll say "overwhelming" - I want it to feel like it's phy
Anna Meredith / Composer
Overwhelming
People
Want
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I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.
Anna Meredith / Composer
Laid Back
Other Worlds
Prejudice
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With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or tweaking a sample.
Anna Meredith / Composer
Age
Stuff
Texture
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I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing.
Anna Meredith / Composer
Gestures
Lovely
Orchestra
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There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've resolved working a sense of performance into a piece yet.
Anna Meredith / Composer
Gestures
Pieces
Sound
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I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly that I'd never be a technical electronic musician.
Anna Meredith / Composer
Crafts
Important
Musician
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Other friends have said, "I don't understand why you've used this trumpet-style sound rather than a real one when you know you can write for trumpet." But it's most important to get the energy right.
Anna Meredith / Composer
Real
Style
Writing
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If I'm feeling confident, then I write confident, happy, or assured music. I can hear some early electronic sketches I did where I'm clearly not confident and everything's a bit mid-range, nothing really pushes through.
Anna Meredith / Composer
Feelings
Range
Writing
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It's the balance between wanting the power of electronics and having something real happening - if you want people to engage in what you're doing, I think that's important. I want to have fun with people, but that's hard to do with a laptop.
Anna Meredith / Composer
Fun
Real
Thinking
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I'm up for a massive, bombastic tour with hydraulics, robots, lasers, 15 costume changes, projecting on a power station, big impact, big visuals. I'd love to realize the theatricality of the whole thing. To be overwhelming, to surprise you, maybe to play in hidden spaces.
Anna Meredith / Composer
Space
Impact
Play
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I'm less interested in uniqueness than in goodness. I see so many concerts where the program notes are more interesting than the music. I remember talking to one composer who went through the most complicated mathematical algorithm to generate some material from scratch. It took weeks and weeks, and he came up with a C major chord. For me, honesty is more interesting than originality.
Anna Meredith / Composer
Honesty
Interesting
Talking
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