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I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing.
Arca / Record Producer
Breathing
Use
Voice
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A mother isn't someone who does it on purpose; mothers are who they are, and just by existing, they affect the way other people negotiate with the environment and with themselves.
Arca / Record Producer
Environment
Mother
Purpose
Affect
Existing
Mothers
Negotiate
Themselves
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When I was about 13, and I would write in my journal, I'd be like, 'I just watched 'Spice World,' the Spice Girls movie, and I loved it.' Sometimes I would sign them with the name Xen.
Arca / Record Producer
Movie
Journal
Spice Girls
Watched
Loved
Sign
Spice
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I've come to the conclusion that the best way for me to grow is in a very self-forgiving way: to take a risk and, in response to how a record pans out, take a risk in the opposite charge.
Arca / Record Producer
Best Way
Conclusion
Response
Risk
Best Me Grow
Opposite
Charge
Record
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We try and banish whole inner realms. Sometimes, you have to touch the thing inside you're most afraid of and see what happens when you touch it rather than look away from it all the time.
Arca / Record Producer
Inside
Afraid
Time Look Sometimes
Touch
Banish
Inner
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There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing and your intonation than the actual words.
Arca / Record Producer
Breathing
Feelings
Frustration
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I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "dear" and "darling" - like some kind of granny!
Arca / Record Producer
Long
Lying
Song
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Arca means 'box' or 'wooden' in very old Spanish. It's a ceremonial container where you store jewelry or valuables, an empty space that can become pregnant with whatever music or meaning I give to it.
Arca / Record Producer
Empty
Empty Space
Jewelry
Pregnant
Box
Ceremonial
Container
Meaning
Spanish
Store
Wooden
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Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that might help me look people in the eye. But at the same time, I'm reaching out, in a way.
Arca / Record Producer
Eye
Inward
Reaching
Time Music Myself
Gesture
Outward
Same Time
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I think for the longest time I used to be kind of embarrassed that if I hung out with someone that had a really, really strong personality, I would end up accidentally catching myself talking like them.
Arca / Record Producer
Be Kind
Catching
Embarrassed
Hung
Accidentally
Time Myself Personality
Longest
Longest Time
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When I met Bjork, I felt like it was a friendship first; it was like an oxygen you get from a person you only can exist with symbiotically. It's one of the most beautiful relationships I've had. She is incredible.
Arca / Record Producer
Friendship
Oxygen
Exist
Met
Most Beautiful
Relationships
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There has to be an entry point to learn about myself, or an idea I've never tried, because then I can try on a new skin and see the world through a different perspective. If I have that spark, then I'll save the file.
Arca / Record Producer
Ideas
Perspective
Skins
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It's been a growth process for each of us to understand why we find certain things beautiful. And if we do find something beautiful, we'll chase it, because you want to understand yourself and what your psyche is creating.
Arca / Record Producer
Beautiful
Creating
Growth
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If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels right. It happens very quickly. And if I've been making a piece of music for five hours and it sucks, I'll just throw it away.
Arca / Record Producer
Mold
Sound
Trying
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When I was younger, I used to say, 'I'm not making music. I am getting catharsis for emotion.' For me, vulnerability is an act of uncovering. It's a revealing: the idea of putting aside your armour and allowing pain to enter.
Arca / Record Producer
Allowing
Armour
Catharsis
Revealing
Vulnerability
Aside
Enter
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I hoped that being attracted to men might go away, but what I never ever hoped would go away were the feelings of femininity, and of softness and fragility, that could live inside of a boy. They were private, but they were mine.
Arca / Record Producer
Femininity
Fragility
Softness
Attracted
Go Away
Hoped
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I think there's a certain poetry to having your body reflect what you feel inside of you. Perhaps you have a feeling that's so pure, or overwhelming inside of you that your body disfigures to it - contortions match your confusion.
Arca / Record Producer
Confusion
Overwhelming
Pure
Your Body
Inside
Match
Perhaps
Reflect
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It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words in order to go deep into the practice of making materials and textures that would express what I'm trying to say more accurately.
Arca / Record Producer
Order
Practice
Trying
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Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to Your Dreams,' one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.
Arca / Record Producer
Music
Best
Arthur
Important
Levels
My Own
Your Dreams
Dreams Best Your
Very
Away
Own
Biography
Thought
First
Read
Hold
Him
Lawrence
Many Levels
One Of The Things
Russell
Tim
Took
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I love vocal music, but I've had a hard time understanding myself through the English language. So it just seemed to me that if I relied solely on creating a voice out of the music, then I might be able to reach something more profound.
Arca / Record Producer
Creating
Hard Times
Voice
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It's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that one day, you wake up feeling masculine, and one day, you wake up feeling feminine. The flickering in between those two states is what's most fertile for me.
Arca / Record Producer
Feminine
Fertile
Masculine
One Day
States
Wake Up
Life Me Day
Boy
Flickering
Wake
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When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making. Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.
Arca / Record Producer
Blank
Flow
Organize
Session
Subconscious
Music Done Always
Allow
Music Me Feel
Music Always Done
Enter
Music Me Always
Piece
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It's a really deep and layered psychological situation - making music with someone - if they're trying to make something real and personal. It's almost like dating: you allow yourself to be consumed by the other - not in a bad way, but in a way that happens in nature.
Arca / Record Producer
Dating
Consumed
Psychological
Allow
Bad Way
Layered
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I always make a point to make my records different. Let's say I have a record that's influenced by hip-hop in an abstract way; for the next record, I'd try not to do that. They are all connected in a personal way but it's important not to repeat myself, because then I can always learn something about myself through my work.
Arca / Record Producer
Abstract
Hip Hop
Work Myself Always
Work Myself Way
Influenced
Repeat
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I kind of roll my eyes when people say they make music for themselves or they make art just for themselves, because, maybe in their head, what that means is that they're making it for someone who they don't think is real. Their audience isn't real. But it's still a communicative act. It's still an outward manifestation of longing.
Arca / Record Producer
Audience
Longing
Manifestation
Art Music People
Communicative
Eyes
Head
Outward
People Say
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The only thing that mattered to me with 'Xen' was setting things up against each other in an uncomfortable way. If there's a really soft piece of music, and then you're hit by a painful explosive sound, your brain does this funny somersault trying to make sense of why this happened. And at that very moment, your brain is malleable.
Arca / Record Producer
Brain
Painful
Setting
Sound
Uncomfortable
Hit
Explosive
Malleable
Mattered
Piece
Soft
The Only Thing
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There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. There's often two words that are close in meaning, yet what I'm trying to say is in between them, or it might be a little more layered and nuanced. Having this conversation with you is exciting, because I can feel you resonate, even though we're on the phone. That's really beautiful to me.
Arca / Record Producer
Beautiful
Frustration
Trying
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A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye. And something I always find beautiful about Jesse's work is that he finds beauty without any calculation. People say that his work is dark, but he never sees it as such. For him it's all almost about educating people to process why they feel disgust.
Arca / Record Producer
Beautiful
Dark
Eye
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A few years ago, I had an interest in making things that felt more like "pieces." That was when I was making a lot of stuff that you could call beats, and it dawned on me that I could say much more nuanced, precise things if I tried to make them more composed. It sounds a bit corny, but I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head.
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Corny
Forget
Listening
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You might be raised as a boy in a very conservative environment and then somehow, at some point, there was a side of me that felt really powerful and sensual in a way that was more feminine. For me, it's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that one day you wake up feeling masculine, and one day you wake up feeling feminine. The flickering in between those two states is what's most fertile for me.
Arca / Record Producer
Girl
Boys
Powerful
Two
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I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while making music. If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels right. It happens very quickly. And if I've been making a piece of music for five hours and it sucks, I'll just throw it away. There has to be an entry point to learn about myself, or an idea I've never tried, because then I can try on a new skin and see the world through a different perspective. If I have that spark, then I'll save the file.
Arca / Record Producer
Judging
Perspective
Skins
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