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Squarepusher Interview from i-D Magazine, March 2004. Do you feel that Ultravisitor is your best work to date...it feels like a fairly epic, very personal odyssey. Did you need to throw a hell of a lot of emotion into it...? Ultravisitor is my spectacle of beauty and of terror. It is unknowable, and will never be understood by anybody, least of all its creator. It brings all the problematic figures to my mind that I have loved endlessly and yet remain as unknown to me as the first time I came across them (though I in no way associate my work with them, lest their reputation be affected.) Andrei, Franz, Don, Hermann, Richard, Friedrich, Sebastien, David, Tod, Augustus. Do you have any kind've vision/plan prior to producing...it seems more like an intense, out of control stream of consciousness...? I have only ever had one idea, and that is to be myself. That is the only thing I can do, in my work and in my life in general. That is not to say that my work is a representation of what I am. It is only a game for which I'm guessing the rules. I do not want to give myself away, so I play games instead. You see my work as personal, but it is anything but that. It has very little to do with me, and that is why it is and will remain intrueging. Through it you will sense my shadow, but never myself. In contrast look at say Ninja Tune for example. All of their work drips with earnestness and tries to be quirky or have "personality". A radical mistake that ensures noone will care about it in the future - the exposed truth of personalities is so completely boring. Were parts of Ultravisitor recorded on tour? Yes, in fact most of the tracks are recorded from shows either in the UK or in the US/Canada. The point of using live versions of the tracks is that they show stupid people that, though their own stubbornness prevents them from being able to engage with my music, they hear other people cheering in the background, and realise that although this music is obscure, it cannot be totally inaccessi |
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Oh my God, John Lennon is dead?!? And congratulations on taking this seriously. |
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Were parts of Ultravisitor recorded on tour? Yes, in fact most of the tracks are recorded from shows either in the UK or in the US/Canada. The point of using live versions of the tracks is that they show stupid people that, though their own stubbornness prevents them from being able to engage with my music, they hear other people cheering in the background, and realise that although this music is obscure, it cannot be totally inaccessible because other people like it. Because it is obscure, but not totally inaccessible, this makes it cool. This makes stupid people buy it. One day their children will dust it off and play it, and realise that I am the supreme musical genius of my generation. This means I'll still be able to play gigs when I'm an old fart with no ideas. Hopefully. What do you perceive as avant-garde music today..? There is really no such thing as a musical avant-garde, because enough people are now so ready and desperate for "difference" that nothing experimental stays on the margins. The speed at which information can be disseminated about music forces anybody with something resembling originality to be quickly brought to the zenith of their popularity. Thus their career is prematurely terminated, or more accurately, frozen. Hence the search goes on. Anything now is acceptable, such is the need for novelty. It has revealed that there was never taste, just habits. Now there are only waves of enthusiasm that break and sink into the sand, in endless procession. |
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nice post. But I think this has been posed before (atleast I've read it before on XLT). |
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In my experience, you can't sound that far up your own arse unless you are :-) And yes of course he's a genius, but he's not allowed to know it, for Cliff's sake... And because you've upset me, I'm not gonna tell you my secret now...well, maybe later... ;-) |
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Sorry dood, I've been away a long time I know :-/ |
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I think he provides intelligent, thought provoking answers to rather mundane questions. I fail to see him disappearing up his or anyone else's arse on the strength of this. |
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well I'm sure someone will read this who haven't read it before :) |
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I hadn't read it. I sense a hint of sarcasm. |
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Well you know, football's a game of opinions and all that...and I'd hate to see him disappear up anyone else's arse, that would be hideous! :-O |
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The point of using live versions of the tracks is that they show stupid people that, though their own stubbornness prevents them from being able to engage with my music, they hear other people cheering in the background, and realise that although this music is obscure, it cannot be totally inaccessible because other people like it. Because it is obscure, but not totally inaccessible, this makes it cool. This makes stupid people buy it. One day their children will dust it off and play it, and realise that I am the supreme musical genius of my generation. Yeah, he's being well serious. |
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In my experience (I've got a lot) many musicians do hold similar opinions of their own stuff, that's all I'm saying Anyway, must be off now, the sun's a-calling me ;-) |
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