![]() How do you listen to your music at home: vinyl, CD, or MP3? And could you tell us why? In the interview, I was asked about how I listen to music: To that extent, any such appearance here, like the semblance of a woman’s voice on the album’s opening track, encapsulates all three things you mention: One of the great benefits of a record with no words is how it doesn’t respond directly to your writing about it-it doesn’t purport to explain itself in the way that records that consist of words, such as a traditional rock and rap records, explain themselves. It’s almost entirely instrumental, and to the extent that a voice is heard, it’s one that is muffled, clipped, edited, echoed until it serves an instrumental function-the voice becomes a sonic element, textural rather than textual, as the saying goes. MW: This is difficult to answer because there isn’t much in the manner of a lyric on Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II. Here is one such back and forth:ģ3 1/3: Name a lyric from the album you’re writing about that encapsulates either a) the album itself, b) your experience in hearing the album for the first time, or c) your experience writing about the album, so far. Each interviewee is given a similar slate of questions, such as what drew them to their subject, what the application process entailed, what other books in the series we’ve read, and so forth. My 33 1/3 interview, the second in this series, recently went live at the publisher’s blog,. Blank Generation came out in 1977, and the Aphex twin in 1994. ![]() Both his subject and mine were released on the same label in the United States: Sire Records. Mine was among 18 books recently announced as the next slate of releases, and the publisher has begun posting short interviews with the various authors about their projects.įirst up was Pete Astor, member of such bands as the Loft and the Weather Prophets, who is writing his book about the Voidoids’ Blank Generation. I’m currently writing a 33 1/3 book about the Aphex Twin album Selected Ambient Works Volume II, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary in a little over a year. ![]() The book series 33 1/3, published by Bloomsbury, has become a remarkable repository of unique thinking on popular music, and I’m proud to be hard at work on my own entry. ![]()
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