Johann Johannsson

I'm very interested in voice synthesis and vocoders in general.

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When I make film music, I'm a filmmaker first and foremost. It's about serving the needs of the film. You're telling a story; in a way, you stop becoming a composer and become a storyteller instead. You tell the story with the most appropriate themes. How you approach these things is a very personal matter, but your goal is to tell the story first.

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I am not very extreme in my life. But I'm very attracted to art that works with extremes and works with limits, that transgresses limits and transcends limits and crosses borders and has a certain boldness.

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I am a trombone player, and that was my first instrument.

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That's one of the hardest parts of putting together an album - finding that concept, that unifying idea. Especially as I write mostly in instrumental music, the idea of having a central concept that unifies the music is very important to me.

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I think melancholy is kind of a misunderstood emotion. I don't think it's necessarily an unpleasant or bad emotion.

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I try not to obfuscate or to be to obscure or to be too cerebral. I like to work on a visceral, emotional level.

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I have a Yamaha YC-45D organ in my studio. It's actually Terry Riley's favorite keyboard, so if you find old clips of him on YouTube, he's usually playing one of these.

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